[1] The team also announced that its home matches would be played at King of Prussia mall in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania starting with the 2008 season, after seven years at Cabrini College.
A temporary stadium with a seating capacity of approximately 2,500 was to be constructed in the parking lot of The Court, then the smaller of the two buildings that composed the mall, in front of Macy's and Bloomingdale's.
While this new site will give us the ability to expand our product, we want to assure our fans that they will continue to view world-class tennis in an intimate, exclusive setting.
While we have enjoyed a spectacular run at Cabrini College, we have seen the success of other WTT franchises that showcase their teams in nontraditional settings.
Parrott was still technically a WTT rookie under the rules in place at the time, even though he played for Sacramento Capitals in 2006, and for the Freedoms in 2007.
The trade forced the Freedoms to leave 2006 WTT Male Most Valuable Player Nestor and Frédéric Niemeyer unprotected.
[3] On July 3, 2008, with Lisa Raymond's availability in doubt, because she and her partner Samantha Stosur reached the semifinals of the ladies' doubles tournament at Wimbedon, the Freedoms signed Carly Gullickson and Mouna Sabri as substitute players to replace her in the first two matches of the season.
On July 6, the Freedoms signed Robin Stephenson as a substitute player to fill in for Raymond, who had lost the Wimbledon ladies' doubles final the previous day, in the third match of the season.
Gullickson and Travis Parrott followed with a 5–3 set win in mixed doubles to send the match to overtime with the Kastles leading 22–19.
Shenay Perry and Chanelle Scheepers won a tiebreaker over Cohen and Mouna Sabri in the final set of women's doubles to send the match to overtime with the Freedoms leading, 22–18.
Perry and Scheepers then won four straight overtime games and took the super tiebreaker, 7–2, to hand the Freedoms a shocking 23–22 loss.
Mattek and Brian Wilson won the first game of overtime to give the Sportimes a 21–18 victory and drop the Freedoms' record to 0 wins and 3 losses.
[7] Venus Williams and Lisa Raymond were both available for the third and final match of the Freedoms' early-season three-match road trip, and they had an immediate impact.
After the Smash won a tiebreaker in the closing set of men's singles, the match went to overtime with the Freedoms holding a commanding 24–15 lead.
The Smash surged to a 16–14 lead, when Brengle and Liezel Huber won the fourth set of women's doubles over Williams and Raymond.
Bogomolov completed the five-set sweep for the Freedoms by winning a men's singles tiebreaker in the closing set to secure a 25–15 victory.
[11] The next evening, the Freedoms visited the Washington Kastles, who had 5 wins and 6 losses and were in the thick of the race for the WTT wild card playoff berth.
They were fourth in the Eastern Conference, and their record stood at 7–7, identical to that of the Boston Lobsters, who held a tiebreaker edge over them.
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.
Notes: Players are listed in order of their game-winning percentage provided they played in at least 40% of the Freedoms' games in that event, which is the WTT minimum for qualification for league leaders in individual statistical categories.