In January 2008, after playing their home matches during the previous three seasons on the campus of Harvard University, the Lobsters announced plans to move to the North Shore region.
Uttam said that studies conducted by the team revealed that the North Shore had the highest concentration of tennis players in Greater Boston.
While announcing the move, the Lobsters also named Tim Mayotte their new head coach, replacing Anne Smith.
[1][2] In announcing the team's move to Middleton the previous day, the Lobsters also made known their intention to draft and sign Martina Navratilova for the 2008 season.
[3] In the Roster Player Draft, the Lobsters chose Jan-Michael Gambill in the first round and left Christina Fusano unprotected.
This filled the Lobsters' quota of two full-time male players and meant they could not protect Nikita Kryvonos in the third round, where they selected Marie-Ève Pelletier.
[5] After another loss on the road at the hands of the New York Buzz, the Lobsters hosted the Delaware Smash in the inaugural match on their new home court at the Ferncroft Country Club on July 7, 2008.
After dropping the final set of women's singles to Madison Brengle, Pelletier clinched a 23–19 victory for the Lobsters when she won the third game of overtime.
[8] The Lobsters' record stood at 3 wins and 5 losses on July 16, 2008, when Martina Navratilova made her season debut in a home match against the Springfield Lasers.
Navratilova and Hadad lost a tiebreaker in the final set of mixed doubles but won the second game of overtime to secure a 23–19 win for the Lobsters.
[10] In the midst of a tight playoff race, the split in the season series gave the Lobsters a tiebreaker edge over the Freedoms on the basis of games won in head-to-head meetings, 44–37.
Navratilova and Kops-Jones blanked Michaela Paštiková and Rebecca Bernhard, 5–0, in the final set of women's doubles to send the match to overtime with the Lobsters trailing, 20–18.
Hadad and Gambill won the first game of overtime to secure an 18–16 victory that improved the Lobsters' record to 7 wins and 6 losses.
[13] With the teams splitting their two regular-season matches, the Breakers, who were also playoff contenders, earned a tiebreaker edge over the Lobsters by winning more games in head-to-head matchups, 37–36.
On July 22, 2008, the Lobsters played their regular-season finale on the road against the defending WTT champion Sacramento Capitals.
The Capitals, as host of WTT Championship Weekend, were guaranteed the wild card berth if they did not finish first or second in the Western Conference.
However, the wild card berth was to be awarded to the team that had the highest overall seeding without finishing in the top two places in its conference.
In the overall seeding of the teams, it remained possible for the 7–6 Sacramento Capitals, who had already clinched second place in the Western Conference, to finish 7–7, creating a three-way tie with the Lobsters and Freedoms.
In a tightly contested match that ended the WTT regular season, which would have given the Sportimes the Eastern Conference title had they won, the Capitals prevailed in a final-set tiebreaker, 20–19.
Raquel Kops-Jones and Marie-Ève Pelletier responded for the Lobsters with a 5–2 set win in women's doubles that tied the score at 7 all.
Players are listed in order of their game-winning percentage provided they played in at least 40% of the Lobsters' games in that event, which is the WTT minimum for qualification for league leaders in individual statistical categories.