2008 World TeamTennis season
| 2008 World TeamTennis season | |
|---|---|
| League | World TeamTennis |
| Sport | Team tennis |
| Duration | July 3–27, 2008 |
| Number of matches | Regular season: 77 (14 for each team) Postseason: 4 |
| Number of teams | 11 |
| TV partner(s) |
Versus Tennis Channel |
| Draft | |
| Top draft pick |
 Lindsay Davenport
|
| Picked by | Newport Beach Breakers |
| Regular season | |
| Top seed | Kansas City Explorers |
| Season MVP |
 Ramón Delgado (Male MVP) (Newport Beach) Rennae Stubbs (Female MVP) (Kansas City) |
| Eastern Conference | |
| Season champions | New York Buzz |
| Runners-up | New York Sportimes |
| Western Conference | |
| Season champions | Kansas City Explorers |
| Runners-up | Sacramento Capitals |
| World TeamTennis Final | |
| Venue | Allstate Stadium at Westfield Galleria at Roseville |
| Champions | New York Buzz |
| Runners-up | Kansas City Explorers |
| Championship MVP |
Rennae Stubbs (Kansas City) |
The 2008 World TeamTennis season was the 33rd season of the top professional team tennis league in the United States.
The New York Buzz defeated the Kansas City Explorers, 21–18, in the WTT Final to win the King Trophy as WTT champions.
The 2008 World TeamTennis season included 11 teams split into two conferences (Eastern and Western). The Eastern Conference had six teams, and the Western Conference had five teams. Each team played a 14-match regular-season schedule with seven home and seven away matches. The top teams in each conference were the conference champions. WTT Championship Weekend matches were played at Allstate Stadium at Westfield Galleria at Roseville in Roseville, California. The conference champions and runners-up qualified for the playoffs. In addition, there was a wild-card team that was either the host team (the Sacramento Capitals) or the team with the best record among teams that did not finish first or second in their conference, if the Capitals qualified based on finishing first or second. The teams were seeded 1 through 5, regardless of conference, with the top three seeds getting a bye to the WTT Semifinals. The fourth seed and the wild card met in a wild card match with the winner facing the number 1 seed in the semifinals. The other semifinal match pitted the number 2 seed against the number 3 seed. The winners of the semifinal matches met in the WTT Final to decide the winner of the King Trophy and the league championship. Higher seeded teams were treated as "home" teams in playoff matches and had the right to determine order of play.
The Houston Wranglers folded following the 2007 season. Owner Linda McIngvale said, "This is not the right type of community for the Wranglers. We're just too big of a city with too many options. There's a jillion other things to do in the summertime in Houston." The team sold fewer than half of the 4,500 available tickets for a match that featured Anna Kournikova playing for the visitors. Late in the 2007 season, attendance at Wranglers' home matches was typically less than 1,000.
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