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Winthrop Is Dancing & A Look Ahead Towards The Weekend

by | Apr 22, 2015 | Blog

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Winthrop won the Big South Championship for the 2nd year in a row with each of those Championship matches coming against Campbell and both finishing with a 4-2 final score.  All 3 doubles courts went to a tiebreak with Winthrop pulling through at 1 and 2.  5 of 6 singles courts went 3 sets with Winthrop’s #1 Tremayne Mitchell and #2 Dylan Comerford pulling away late and it was freshman Ruben Franzanti providing the clincher at #5 by winning a 3rd set tiebreak 7-1 over Jonathan O’Neal.  Campbell got a straight set win from Marthinus Visser at #6 and a 3-set win from Nicolas Rakitin at #3 in a losing effort.


Winthrop recap
Campbell recap

FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of April 21th.  For more details about UTR check out their website. 
Winthrop 4, Campbell 2
Apr 21, 2015 at Asheville, N.C. (Asheville Racquet Club)
Singles competition
1. MITCHELL, Tremayne (WU 12.63) def. Billington,Steven (CAM 12.46) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
2. COMERFORD, Dylan (WU 12.64) def. Schaefer,Lukas (CAM 11.96) 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
3. Rakitin,Nicolas (CAM 12.40) def. PATRICK, Steven (WU 11.72) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
4. NAGOVNAK, Peter (WU 12.08) vs. Rossignon,Adrien (CAM 11.14) 6-7, 7-5, 1-0, unf
5. FRANZANTI, Ruben (WU 11.52) def. O’Neal,Jonathan (CAM 11.95) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1)
6. Visser,Marthinus (CAM 11.67) def. CHEN, Michael (WU 11.84) 6-1, 6-3
Doubles competition
1. Comerford/Nagovnak (WU) def. Rossignon/Visser (CAM) 8-7 (3)
2. Mitchell/Patrick (WU) def. O’Neal/Schaefer (CAM) 8-7 (7)
3. Rakitin/Billington (CAM) def. Chen/Ryan (WU) 8-7 (3)
Match Notes:
Campbell 14-10
Winthrop 15-8
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (6,2,3,1,5)
Big South Men’s Tennis Championship Match
Match 8: No. 3 Winthrop vs. No. 4 Campbell
Official: Wayne Tesh T-2:55

There are 17 more conference tournament taking place this week with 2 of them starting today.  If you don’t check out my Conference Tournament Page you’re missing out.  It has daily schedules, brackets, and scoring link (if available).

ACC (Cary, NC) – potential semifinals:
#1 Virginia vs. #4 North Carolina/#5 Duke – UVA beat UNC 4-0 and 6-1 and Duke 6-1 regular season.
#2 Virginia Tech vs. #3 Wake Forest – Wake won regular season meeting 5-2 in WS.

Big 10 (Champaign, IL) – potential semifinals:
#1 Illinois vs. #4 Northwestern – ILL won regular season meeting 5-2 in Champaign.
#2 Ohio State vs. #3 Minnesota – OSU won regular season meeting 4-2 in Cbus.

Big 12 (Waco, TX) – potential semifinals
#1 Oklahoma vs. #4 Texas/#5 Texas Tech – OU beat Texas 4-1 but lost to Texas Tech 4-3
#2 Baylor vs. #3 TCU/#6 Oklahoma State – BU beat both 4-0 in the regular season

Pac 12 (Ojai, CA) – potential semifinals
#1 Stanford vs. #4 California – Teams split in the regular season – each winning 4-3 on the road
#2 USC vs. #3 UCLA – USC won both regular season meetings 4-1 at home and 4-2 at UCLA.

TV/Streaming Options

  • The Big 12 Championship will be shown live on Fox Sports 2 on Sunday.
  • The Pac 12 Championship will be shown on tape delay Sunday evening – final is on Saturday.
  • The ACC Championship will be shown on ESPN3/WatchESPN online – 1 of the semifinals will also be shown too.
  • The Big 10 Championship will be streamed online through Illinois’s site and will be shown on the Big Ten Network on May 12th.  
  • The Mountain West will broadcast all matches online at themw.com.  There are women’s matches going on now if you want to hear the broadcast and check out the stream.  Very impressed so far with camera angles and switching between courts.