Wisconsin announced that former graduate Danny Westerman was returning to Madison to take over the vacant head coaching job. Westerman had spent the last 9 years in Denver as head coach and had done a tremendous job with the Pioneers. Full release here
Here is my updated D1 Men’s Head Coaching Carousel – if you know of others that needed to be added let me know.
The ITA announced the 2015 Collegiate All-Star Team – full release here:
The majority of the field was announced for the inaugural Oracle/ITA Masters which will be held from September 18-20 in Malibu, California at the Malibu Racquet Club. There are a few wild cards that will be awarded closer to the date at this hard court event.
I saw where the plans have been approved to add an additional 2 courts to Georgia’s indoor center so if all goes as planned when the NCAA Tournament returns to Athens in May 2017 there will be 6 indoor courts onsite. Construction is scheduled to begin in May 2016 and completed by January 2017.
Kentucky rising sophomore, Trey Yates, won the Atlanta City Open and in the process earned a wild card into qualies at the ATP 250 BB&T Atlanta Open which gets started in late July – full results here.
US Open National Playoff Sectionals – winners get to compete with other sectional champs in August for a spot at a qualifying wild card at the US Open.
- Columbia commit, Victor Pham (UTR 13.52/TRN Blue Chip), won the US Open National Playoff Northern California Sectional
- Florida State rising sophomore, Terrell Whitehurst (UTR 13.12), won the USONP Florida Sectional
- Minnesota rising sophomore, Felix Corwin (UTR 13.52), won the USONP Northern Sectional
- 2013 Princeton graduate, Matija Pecotic (UTR 15.24), won the USONP Middle States Sectional
- Georgia Tech rising sophomore Michael Kay (UTR 13.39) will face 2005 Kentucky grad Jesse Witten (UTR 15.00) Saturday morning in the finals of the USONP Southern Sectional.
- Notre Dame rising junior Josh Hagar (UTR 13.38) will face Texas rising sophomore Julian Zlobinsky (UTR 12.50) in the finals of the USONP Texas Sectional.
List off all winners is here
I listened to an interesting interview that Lisa Stone (Parenting Aces) conducted with Ross Grenstein (Scholarship for Athletes) earlier this week and the topic was college transfers. If you’ve got an hour I highly recommend that you give it a listen if you want to hear some of Greenstein’s insights on why college tennis players transfer and the rules about transferring. I expect my list to get rather crowded once each school releases its roster in the fall.
Former Georgia assistant coach, Will Glenn, did a candid 20 minute radio interview with Dawg Sports Radio. I thought it was interesting to hear how Will made the roster as a walk-on back in 1998.
There will be 7 guys with college ties playing men’s singles at Wimbledon next week – 5 got in based off rankings (Kevin Anderson, John Isner, Benjamin Becker, Steve Johnson, Blaz Rola) and 2 got in through qualies (Aleksandr Nedovyesov, JP Smith). The Smart Athlete’s Dominic Tinodi did a nice breakdown on each of the 7 along with the 2 gals (Nicole Gibbs, Irina Falconi) that will in the main draw.
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