2015 Philadelphia Freedoms season

2015 Philadelphia Freedoms
2015 record 0 wins, 0 losses
Owner(s) Billie Jean King
General Manager Barbara Perry
Coach Josh Cohen
Stadium The Pavilion
(capacity: 3,500)

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The 2015 Philadelphia Freedoms season will be the 15th season of the franchise (in its current incarnation) in World TeamTennis (WTT).

Season recap

Draft

At the WTT draft on March 16, 2015, the Freedoms passed on making any selections in the marquee portion of the draft. In the roster portion of the draft, the Freedoms protected Taylor Townsend and 2014 WTT Male Most Valuable Player Marcelo Melo. They left Victoria Duval and Liezel Huber unprotected in the second round and instead chose Robby Ginepri. The Freedoms could not protect Frank Dancevic in the fourth round, because they already had two full-time male players. Huber was still available, and the Freedoms selected her to complete their roster.[1]

Other player transactions

On June 29, 2015, the Freedoms announced that Liezel Huber would miss the 2015 season due to health concerns, and she was removed from the active roster. The Freedoms also announced that they had signed Coco Vandeweghe, Asia Muhammad and Abigail Spears as substitute players. Vandeweghe was scheduled to play in the team's first three matches (all on the road), followed by Muhammad playing in the next four and Spears playing in the final seven.[2]

Event chronology

Draft picks

Since the Freedoms had the worse record of the two conference championship losers in 2014, they selected fourth from the bottom (fourth) in each round of the draft. Unlike previous seasons in which WTT conducted its Marquee Player Draft and its Roster Player Draft on different dates about one month apart, the league conducted a single draft at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California on March 16, 2015.[1] The selections made[1] by the Freedoms are shown in the table below.

Draft type Round No. Overall Player chosen Prot?
Marquee 1 4 4 Pass –
2 4 11 Pass –
3 4 18 Pass –
Roster 1 4 4 United States Taylor Townsend Y
2 4 11 United States Robby Ginepri N
3 4 18 Brazil Marcelo Melo Y
4 4 25 United States Liezel Huber N

Match log

Legend
Freedoms Win Freedoms Loss
Home team in CAPS
Match Date Venue and location Result and details Record
1 July 12 Mediacom Stadium at Cooper Tennis Complex
Springfield, Missouri 		Philadelphia Freedoms at SPRINGFIELD LASERS
2 July 13 Omni La Costa Resort and Spa
Carlsbad, California 		SAN DIEGO AVIATORS 22, Philadelphia Freedoms 21, (super tiebreaker, 7–5)[3]
* MD: Taylor Fritz/Raven Klaasen (Aviators) 5, Marcelo Melo/Robby Ginepri (Freedoms) 2
* WS: Coco Vandeweghe (Freedoms) 5, Chanelle Scheepers (Aviators) 4
* MS: Robby Ginepri (Freedoms) 5, Taylor Fritz (Aviators) 4
* WD: Coco Vandeweghe/Taylor Townsend (Freedoms) 5, Darija Jurak/Chanelle Scheepers (Aviators) 3
* XD: Raven Klaasen/Darija Jurak (Aviators) 5, Marcelo Melo/Coco Vandeweghe (Freedoms) 4
* STB - XD: Raven Klaasen/Darija Jurak (Aviators) 7, Marcelo Melo/Coco Vandeweghe (Freedoms) 5 		1–1
3 July 14 Dream Stadium at Sunrise Mall
Citrus Heights, California 		Philadelphia Freedoms at CALIFORNIA DREAM
4 July 16 The Pavilion
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania 		Boston Lobsters at PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS
5 July 17 The Pavilion
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania 		Washington Kastles at PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS
6 July 18 Kastles Stadium at the Charles E. Smith Center
Washington, District of Columbia 		Philadelphia Freedoms at WASHINGTON KASTLES
7 July 19 The Pavilion
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania 		Springfield Lasers at PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS
8 July 20 The Pavilion
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania 		Washington Kastles at PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS
9 July 22 Boston Lobsters Tennis Center at the Manchester Athletic Club
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts 		Philadelphia Freedoms at BOSTON LOBSTERS
10 July 23 The Pavilion
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania 		Austin Aces at PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS
11 July 24 Mediacom Stadium at Cooper Tennis Complex
Springfield, Missouri 		Philadelphia Freedoms at SPRINGFIELD LASERS
12 July 26 The Pavilion
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania 		California Dream at PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS
13 July 27 Boston Lobsters Tennis Center at the Manchester Athletic Club
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts 		Philadelphia Freedoms at BOSTON LOBSTERS
14 July 28 The Pavilion
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania 		Boston Lobsters at PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS

Team personnel

As of June 30, 2015:[2][4][5]

On-court personnel

Front office

Transactions

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Serena Williams, Eugenie Bouchard Headline Mylan World TeamTennis Player Draft for Historic 40th Season". World TeamTennis. March 16, 2015. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Freedoms Add Vandeweghe, Spears and Muhammad to Roster". Tumblr. June 29, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Mylan World TeamTennis – Final Results for Monday, 7/13/2015". World TeamTennis. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ "2015 Lineup". Philadelphia Freedoms. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ Arkans, Dan (April 15, 2015). "Lisa Raymond is in It to Win It for Freedoms". The Times Herald. Norristown, Pennsylvania. Retrieved June 30, 2015.

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