2014 Boston Lobsters season
| 2014 Boston Lobsters season | |
|---|---|
| Conference | 3rd Eastern |
| Record | |
| 2014 record | 1 win, 13 losses |
| Home record | 1 win, 6 losses |
| Road record | 0 wins, 7 losses |
| Games won–lost | 189–322 |
| Team Info | |
| Owner(s) | Bahar Uttam |
| President/CEO | Bahar Uttam |
| General Manager | Darlene Hayes |
| Coach | Robert Greene |
| Stadium |
Boston Lobsters Tennis Center at the Manchester Athletic Club (capacity: 1,634) |
The 2014 Boston Lobsters season was the tenth season of the franchise (in its current incarnation) in World TeamTennis (WTT).
The Lobsters had 1 win and 13 losses and finished last in the Eastern Conference. They did not qualify for the playoffs.
On January 9, 2014, the Lobsters announced that Robert Greene had been hired as the team's new head coach replacing Bud Schultz. Greene was formerly chairman of the United States Tennis Association Olympic Tennis Committee and responsible for the 2008 United States Olympic Tennis Team. Schultz had been the Lobsters head coach since the 2009 season.
The Lobsters apparently acquired James Blake who played for the New York Sportimes in 2013, in a trade not revealed to the public until February 11, 2014, when Boston traded Blake to the Springfield Lasers for undisclosed consideration. Blake was not drafted in 2013, and played one match for the Sportimes as a wildcard player. However, John McEnroe appeared for the Sportimes later in the season as a wildcard player as well. Since WTT teams can have only one wildcard player of each gender, the designation of McEnroe as a wildcard player by the Sportimes resulted in their effective release of Blake. With Blake registering for the 2014 marquee player draft, under WTT rules the right to protect him would have reverted to the Philadelphia Freedoms who drafted him as a marquee player in 2012. Therefore, the apparent unreported trade took place between the Lobsters and the Freedoms between the end of the 2012 season and the 2014 marquee player draft.
Since the Lobsters had the worse record of the two conference championship match losers in 2013 at 5 wins and 9 losses, they had the fourth-to-last (fifth) selection in each round of the WTT Marquee Player Draft. The Lobsters passed on making any selections at the marquee player draft.
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