Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced the hiring of Kelcy McKenna as the Badgers new women’s coach. McKenna spent the previous four years at New Mexico with the first three as an assistant/associate before taking over as the head coach last season (went 15-7). McKenna replaces Tina Samara who resigned after three seasons to take the Pacific job.

NC State head coach Jon Choboy announced that he has hired Maciek Sykut as his new assistant coach. Sykut will replace Mat Cloer who recently took a position at the new Lake Norman Tennis Center in Mooresville, North Carolina after serving as the assistant at NC State for the last four seasons. Sykut played at Florida State from 2005 to 2009 and was a volunteer assistant at NC State from 2012 to 2014.

Jackson State’s men’s program was placed on probation for one-year after the NCAA found that former coach, Scott Pennington, violated several different NCAA rules during the 2014-15 season.
Here is the full release from the NCAA and here are some other details from the Jackson Clarion-Ledger but in a nutshell Pennington let an ineligible player practice and play in a match using someone else’s name (among other things). Jackson State went winless during that season so I’m not sure what Pennington had to gain by doing what he did. On a site note Jackson State must have the worst website of any Division 1 program that I’ve ever seen – maybe they are remodeling it because you can’t find anything of value on that site.

Virginia put out a release mentioning that Fox College Sports will be airing a half-hour special from the fine folks at College Tennis Weekly with Tony Minnis about the most recent NCAA Championships in Tulsa. The Fox College Sports channel is available on most cable/satellite providers in the sports tier (if you subscribe to it). The first airing will be next Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. ET so don’t forget to set the DVR – for other showtimes check out the Virginia article.

Oklahoma State’s $17.5 million Michael and Anne Greenwood Tennis Center was named as one of the 12 winners in the USTA’s Facility Awards program – click here for the full release. Oklahoma State’s new facility hosted the Big 12 Championships last season and was also used as a back-up site for the NCAA Championships.

Wimbledon (Grass) – John Isner moved on to the third round by defeating Matthew Barton in three tiebreak sets while Benjamin Becker was beating handily by Tomas Berdych. Steve Johnson’s third round match was halted by rain with Johnson up a break in the first set.

Second Round
[18] #17 John Isner (Georgia ’07) def. #248 Matthew Barton 7-6(8), 7-6(3), 7-6(8)
[10] #9 Tomas Berdych def. #102 Benjamin Becker (Baylor ’05) 6-4, 6-1, 6-2

Third Round
[18] #17 John Isner (Georgia ’07) vs. [12] Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
#29 Steve Johnson (USC ’12) vs. #37 Grigor Dimitrov *4-3

$25K Wichita, KS, USA F23 (Hard) – Sekou Bangoura had a nice day in Wichita – the former Florida Gators knocked off the top seed Tommy Paul in his singles quarterfinal match and then he and Darian King won the doubles title with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Eric Quigley (Kentucky ’12) and Nicolas Meister (UCLA ’12). It was Bangoura’s 14th career doubles title and second with Darian King.

Jared Hiltzik made the biggest comeback of the day in Wichita when he rallied from 6-2, 4-2 down to win 2-6, 7-5, 6-2. Hiltzik fought off three match points when serving 4-5, 0/40 in the second set and then he broke from 15/40 to go up 6-5 before serving out the set in a two-deuce game.

Quarterfinals
[5] #252 Sekou Bangoura (Florida ’11) def. [1] #202 Tommy Paul 6-2, 7-6(4)
#640 Cameron Norrie (TCU Rising Jr) def. [8] #450 Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) 6-2, 7-6(4)
#596 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois ’16) def. #1057 Ryan Haviland (Stanford ’02) 2-6, 7-5, 6-2
[Q] #1825 Dominik Koepfer (Tulane ’16) def. #499 Takanyi Garanganga 6-2, 5-7, 6-3

Semifinals
[5] #252 Sekou Bangoura (Florida ’11) vs. #640 Cameron Norrie (TCU Rising Jr)
#596 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois ’16) vs. [Q] #1825 Dominik Koepfer (Tulane ’16)

$10K Pittsburgh, PA USA F22 (Clay) – Connor Smith lost his singles match but he 16-year old Danny Thomas won the doubles title with a 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-6) win over Robbie Mudge (NC State ’15) and Rob Galloway (Wofford ’15).

Quarterfinals
#1096 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA Rising Sr) def. [4] #462 Adam El Mihdawy 6-4, 2-6, 6-3
#787 Winston Lin (Columbia ’15) def. [3] #417 Connor Smith (Ohio St ’13) 6-3, 6-4
[2] #451 Kaichi Uchida def. #994 Patrick Daciek (Virginia Tech ’12) 3-6, 6-4, 6-0

Semifinals
#1096 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA Rising Sr) vs. [5] #527 Jose Statham
#787 Winston Lin (Columbia ’15) vs. [2] #451 Kaichi Uchida

$25K Kelowna, Canada, F4 (Hard) – Jason Jung came up short in the singles quarterfinals but he and 35-year old John-Paul Fruttero (Cal ’03) won the doubles title with a 6-4, 7-6(4) win over Jarryd Chaplin (Tennessee ’14) and Ben McLachlan (Cal ’14). The doubles title was Fruttero’s 15th of his career but first since 2012 – interesting fact he won his first two doubles titles in 2002 and 2003 with new Auburn coach Bobby Reynolds. It was Jung’s ninth career doubles title and third of the year.

Quarterfinals
#560 Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14) vs. [Q] #2141 Riaan Du Toit (Central Florida ’13) 6-2, 6-3
#357 Blake Mott def. [2] #289 Jason Jung (Michigan ’12) 3-6, 6-4, 7-5

Semifinals
#560 Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14) vs. [8] #464 Sebastien Boltz

$25K Montauban, France, F12 (Clay) – #905 Florent Diep (Florida ’14) lost 7-6(8), 6-1 to #352 Caio Zampieri in the quarterfinals. Diep led 5-3 in the first set and had a set point on his serve but got broke and dropped the set in a long tiebreak. The second set went downhill pretty quickly after he got broke serving at 1-2.

$10K Harare, Zimbabwe, F2 (Hard) – #1509 Mitchell Frank (Virginia ’15) and #342 Nik Scholtz (Ole Miss ’15) both lost in the semifinals. Frank went down 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 to #315 Lloyd Harris while Scholtz lost 7-6(5), 6-4 to #503 Marc Polmans. Scholtz and Tucker Vorster (Ole Miss ’11) lost 6-4, 6-2 in the doubles final to Hugo Nys and Vishnu Vardhan.

$10K Nieuwpoort, Belgium, F3 (Clay) – #534 Joran Vliegen (East Carolina ’14) fell in the singles quarterfinals to the top seed #323 Filip Horansky 6-2, 6-3 however he and Sander Gille (East Tennessee State ’12) won their 15th doubles title with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Laurens Verboven (USC Rising Soph) and Stijn Meulemans.

$10K Kamen, Germany, F5 (Clay) – #619 Jonas Luetjen (Ole Miss ’13) lost his quarterfinal match to #326 Christopher Heyman 7-6(3), 6-3. Luetjen jumped out to a double-break 3-0 lead in the first set but Heyman got on the board after breaking in a four-deuce game. Heyman broke in a two-deuce game to even it at 4-4 and then cruised in the first set tiebreak. Heyman broke Luetjen to go up 3-2 in the second and then broke again to win it.

$10K Cali, Colombia, F3 Futures (Clay) – #551 Roberto Quiroz (USC ’15) advanced to his third final of the year after a 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-2 win over #557 Marcelo Barrios Vera. Quiroz will attempt to win his third career singles final when he meets #727 Gonzalo Villanueva on Saturday.

$10K Kazan, Russia, F2 Futures (Clay) – #797 Ronald Slobodchikov (SMU Rising Jr) lost in the semifinals to the top seed #421 Marc Giner 6-3, 6-1.