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Sherwood CupThe John Roddick era is officially underway at Central Florida and it’s off to a great start after the Knights upset No. 23 Texas Tech 4-3. The Red Raiders started off the day at the brand new Home of the USTA by blanking New Mexico 4-0 and then in the second half of the doubleheader against UCF they got off to a good start after capturing the doubles point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3. UCF rebounded in singles by taking four first sets with three of them coming in tiebreaks. Texas Tech’s Bjorn Thomson made it 2-0 with a quick win at No. 4 but Central Florida evened it up at 2-2 when Chris Barrus and Alabama transfer Danny Kerznerman won in straight sets at No. 5 and No. 6. Barrus’s win at No. 5 came over the ITA’s No. 2 Freshman/Newcomer Ronit Bisht. Texas Tech retook the lead when Alex Sendegeya won in straight sets at No. 3 over Virginia transfer Harrison Richmond but Central Florida was still looking good at No. 1 and No. 2
UCF’s Korey Lovett, who transferred in from Alabama, would even it at 3-3 after breaking Jolan Cailleau on the deciding point to win 7-6(9), 6-4 so it all came down to No. 2. UCF’s Kalman Boyd, who transferred in from USC, took the opening set over Connor Curry and was on serve up 5-4 in the second. Curry went up 15/0 with an overhead put away but then he netted a backhand to make it 15-all. Curry netted another backhand to make it 15/30 and then after a forehand found the net he was in a 15/40 hole. Boyd closed it out on the next point after another Curry unforced error and the celebration was on – here was the live stream of Curry’s final service game.
“I think the biggest thing this win does is give us belief, if you do the right things, word hard and focus on execution you give yourself a better chance to win,” said head coach John Roddick. “I think today, from a coaching perspective, is a valuable lesson because they will believe what we have been saying. The bottom line is the effort that they put in, to not go away and to win three tiebreakers after dropping the doubles point, it’s heart. It’s something you can’t teach.”
“This win gave us a ton of confidence because we knew we could all come out here and win if we executed our game plans,” said Lovett. “We’ve been working really hard at practice. I think everyone was really excited to get out there and everyone took advantage of the opportunity.”
Central Florida 4, #23 Texas Tech 3
Jan 14, 2017 at Lake Nona (USTA National Campus Collegiate Center)
Singles Competition
1. Korey Lovett (UCF 13.51) def. #25 Jolan Cailleau (TT 14.00) 7-6(9), 6-4
2. Kalman Boyd (UCF) 12.49) def. #104 Connor Curry (TT 13.75) 7-6(0), 6-4
3. Alex Sendegeya (TT 13.68) def. Harrison Richmond (UCF 13.01) 6-3, 6-2
4. Bjorn Thomson (TT 13.77) def. Mariano Porter (UCF 12.61) 6-1, 6-3
5. Chris Barrus (UCF 12.98) def. #120 Ronit Bisht (TT 12.70) 6-0, 6-4
6. Danny Kerznerman (UCF 13.08) def. Carlos DiLaura (TT 12.61) 7-6(3), 6-1
Doubles Competition
1. #27 Porter/Richmond (UCF) def. #60 Sendegeya/Thomson (TT) 6-2
2. Curry/DiLaura (TT) def. Lovett/Boyd (UCF) 6-3
3. Bisht/Hyrkkonen (TT) def. Paya/Barrus (UCF) 6-4
Match Notes:
Texas Tech 1-1; National Ranking #23
Central Florida 1-0
Order of Finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (4,5,6,3,1,2)
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Other Dual-Match Results:
Men:
Florida State rolled over Louisiana Lafayette 4-0 and then won a tight 4-3 match over South Alabama with Jose Garcia winning the decider 7-5 in the third.
Georgia State blanked Florida A&M and Troy and will play Florida State tomorrow in the finals of the FSU Spring Invite.
#19 Arkansas edged Tulsa 4-3 with Mike Redlicki clinching at No. 1 with a straight set win over Or Ram-Harel.
#9 North Carolina had no problems with Bucknell 6-0 and Wofford 4-0. William Blumberg made his collegiate debut at No. 1 singles.
#2 Wake Forest defeated North Florida 5-2 and East Tennessee State 6-1. Kudos to UNF’s Jefta Kecic on his upset of ITA No. 4 Skander Mansouri and double kudos to UNF’s Jack Findel-Hawkins and Lasse Mucheites on upsetting the ITA’s No. 1 doubles team of Mansouri and Christian Seraphim.
Pacific knocked off UC Davis twice by the same 4-3 score with the Tigers winning almost all the crucial third sets
Utah State kicked off the James Wilson era by beating former Big West foe UC Irvine for the first-time in program history with a 6-1 win.
Rice won a pair on Saturday by blanking UTRGV 7-0 and winning 6-1 over Lamar. UTRGV only had four players available.
Arizona won its first match of the year with a 4-1 win over New Mexico in Lake Nona.
Women:
#11 Georgia Tech drilled Portland in Eugene 7-0. Jackets play the Ducks on Sunday.
Hawaii won it’s first match of the year with a 4-3 win over Kansas State. All six singles matches finished in straight sets.
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It’ll be UCLA vs. Baylor in the semifinals of the Sherwood Cup after UCLA’s Evan Zhu and Joseph Di Giulio won a pair of matches on Saturday as did Baylor’s Juan Benitez and Max Tchoutakian. The Baylor duo is expected to play at No. 1 and No. 2 this year while Zhu and DiGiulio will probably be somewhere between No. 3 and No. 5.
Sherwood Cup – Second Round
Jack Barber (Stanford) def. Constantin Frantzen (Baylor) 6-3, 6-4
Evan Zhu (UCLA) def. Brandon Sutter (Stanford) 6-2, 6-1
[5] Max Tchoutakian (Baylor) def. Austin Rapp (UCLA) 6-4, 6-1
Sameer Kumar (Stanford) def. Will Little (Baylor) 6-1, 2-6, 6-3
Bjoern Petersen (Baylor) def. Laurens Verboven (USC) 6-4, 6-1
Juan Benitez (Baylor) def. [3] Martin Redlicki (UCLA) 7-5, 6-4
Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) def. Johannes Schretter (Baylor) w/o illness
Logan Staggs (UCLA) def. Roy Lederman (Stanford) 6-1, 6-4
Quarterfinals
Evan Zhu (UCLA) def. Jack Barber (Stanford) 7-6(5), 6-4
[5] Max Tchoutakian (Baylor) def. Sameer Kumar (Stanford) 6-4, 6-3
Juan Benitez (Baylor) def. Logan Staggs (UCLA) 6-3, 6-2
Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) def. Bjoern Petersen (Baylor) 6-3, 6-4
Semifinals
[5] Max Tchoutakian (Baylor) vs. Evan Zhu (UCLA)
Juan Benitez (Baylor) vs. Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA)
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Seven of the top eight seeds were still remaining at the start of the second day of the Freeman Memorial Championships but after two rounds of singles that number dropped to just two. UCLA freshman Ena Shibahara won a pair of three-setters including a 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 7-6(4) win over Oklahoma State’s Aliona Bolsova in the second round and will meet Pepperdine’s Mayar Sherif Ahmed in the semifinals. Florida freshman Ingrid Neel rolled into the semifinals with a pair of straight set wins and will face Stanford’s Melissa Lord who also took care of business after beating the second seed Pepperdine’s Luisa Stefani and then routing the eighth seed Duke’s Chalena Scholl. Full results including doubles are available
here.
Singles Flight 1 – Round 2
(1) #4 Ena Shibahara (UCLA) def. Aliona Bolsova (OSU) 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 7-6(4)
(7) #30 Anna Danilina (UF) def. #44 Alexa Graham (UNC) 6-4, 6-1
(4) #11 Viktoriya Lushkova (OSU) def. Alaina Miller (UCLA) 7-6, 2-6, 6-4
(6) #22 Mayar Sherif Ahmed (PEPP) def. Spencer Liang (UF) 6-2, 6-1
Laura Gulbe (PEPP) def. #48 Carol Yang (UNLV) 7-5, 6-2
Ingrid Neel (UF) def. (3) #9 Jessie Aney (UNC) 7-6, 6-2
(8) #34 Chalena Scholl (DUKE) def. Jada Hart (UCLA) 6-4, 6-1
Melissa Lord (STAN) def. (2) #8 Luisa Stefani (PEPP) 6-3, 7-5
Quarterfinals
(1) #4 Ena Shibahara (UCLA) def. (7) #30 Anna Danilina (UF) 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
(6) #22 Mayar Sherif Ahmed (PEPP) def. (4) #11 Viktoriya Lushkova (OSU) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6
Ingrid Neel (UF) def. Laura Gulbe (PEPP) 6-0, 1-0 ret.
Melissa Lord (STAN) def. (8) #34 Chalena Scholl (DUKE) 6-0, 6-2
Semifinals
(1) #4 Ena Shibahara (UCLA) vs. (6) #22 Mayar Sherif Ahmed (PEPP)
Ingrid Neel (UF) vs. Melissa Lord (STAN)
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Georgia Tech and Illinois had the upper hand on Saturday in singles action at the MLK Invitational in Atlanta as the Jackets took 6 of 10 from Columbia and Illinois took four of seven from Georgia.
Georgia Tech head coach
Kenny Thorne says: “Across the board, I told the guys, that we came out and played the way we need to play in singles. Everybody I felt like was in their matches. That’s what you want to get out of this tournament, some close matches, put the guys under pressure and I think we responded pretty well. Columbia is a good team; they’re a top-25 team so it was a good result.”
“I thought today was a very good day,” said Georgia head coach
Manuel Diaz. “I saw some great matchups and some great opportunities for our guys. I’m seeing a lot of progress. Wayne and Robert did a great job of taking care of business. Overall, I thought it was a good first day, and hopefully our guys can bounce back tomorrow.”
Georgia Tech/Columbia
#9 Christopher Eubanks (Georgia Tech) def. #40 Victor Pham (Columbia) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
#61 Andrew Li (Georgia Tech) def. #48 Shawn Hadavi (Columbia) 7-5, retired
Jackie Tang (Columbia) def. Carlos Benito (Georgia Tech) 6-4, 7-5
Alex Keyser (Columbia) def. Chris Yun (Georgia Tech) 6-1, 6-2
Carlos Divar (Georgia Tech) def. Richard Pham (Columbia) 7-6, 7-6 (7-0)
Cole Fiegel (Georgia Tech) def. Timothy Wang (Columbia) 6-3, 6-3
Daniel Yun (Georgia Tech) def. William Matheson (Columbia) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Christopher Grant (Columbia) def. Michael Kay (Georgia Tech) 6-4, 2-6, 7-5
Elijah Melendez (Georgia Tech) def. Adam Ambrozy (Columbia) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
Michal Rolski (Columbia) def. Phillip Gresk (Georgia Tech) 7-6, 2-2, 7-6 (7-3)
Illinois/Georgia
Aleks Vukic (Illinois) def. #56 Jan Zielinski (Georgia), 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3
#85 Aleks Kovacevic (Illinois) def. #79 Walker Duncan (Georgia), 6-2, 6-2
#29 Aron Hiltzik (Illinois) def. #31 Emil Reinberg, (Georgia), 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1
#22 Wayne Montgomery (Georgia) def. Zeke Clark (Illinois), 6-4, 6-2
Robert Loeb (Georgia) def. #100 Gui Gomes (Illinois), 6-4, 6-2
Alex Phillips (Georgia) def. Noe Khlif (Illinois), 7-6 (3), 6-1
Pablo Landa (Illinois) def. Sam Dromsky (Georgia), 6-4, 6-4
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South Florida and Louisville were the big winners on on Saturday at the FGCU Invitational. USF went 6-2 in singles against Wisconsin while Louisville went 7-4 against Wisconsin and Florida Gulf Coast. Wisconsin took it on the chin going just 3-10 while FGCU went 3-3.
South Florida/Wisconsin
Josef Dodridge (Wisconsin) def. Sasha Gozun (University of South Florida) 6-4, 6-4
#77 Peter Bertran (University of South Florida) def. Chema Carranza (Wisconsin) 6-3, 6-4
Justin Roberts (University of South Florida) def. Lamar Remy (Wisconsin) 7-5, 5-7, 6-4
Alberto Barroso (University of South Florida) def. Chase Colton (Wisconsin) 4-6, 6-2, 7-6
Pierre Luquet (University of South Florida) def. Osgar O’Hoisin (Wisconsin) 7-6, 2-6, 6-3
Vadym Kalyuzhnyy (University of South Florida) def. John Zordani (Wisconsin) 6-3, 6-4
Nils Heimer (University of South Florida) def. Darius Mackenzie (Wisconsin) 6-2, 6-4
Daniel Soyfer (Wisconsin) def. Jakub Wojcik (University of South Florida) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
Louisville/Wisconsin
Brandon Lancaster (Louisville) def. Elliott Sprecher (Wisconsin) 6-0, 6-1
Clement Filho (Louisville) def. Alan Sweet (Wisconsin) 6-0, 6-2
C. Morin-Kougoucheff (Louisville) def. Chema Carranza (Wisconsin) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4
Brandon Lancaster (Louisville) def. Darius Mackenzie (Wisconsin) 6-4, 6-2
Elliott Sprecher (Wisconsin) def. Michael Quang (Louisville) 6-1, 6-3
Louisville/Florida Gulf Coast
Nicolas Rouanet (UL) def. Oliver Landert (FGC) 6-2, 6-4
Parker Wynn (UL) Andres Alfonzo (FGC) 7-6, 6-1
Ezequiel Cerrini (FGC) def. Sean Donohue (UL) 6-3, 7-6 (8-6)
Javier Fernandez (FGC) def. George Hedley (UL) 1-6, 6-4, 7-5
Mateo Ruiz (FGC) def. Santiago Salazar (UL) 6-3, 6-4
Clement Filho (UL) def. Sam Chaffin (FGC) 6-1, 6-3
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Michigan Invitational (Michigan/Arizona State/Tennessee/DePaul)
resultsNational College Tennis Classic
resultsIndiana Winter Invite (Indiana, Colorado, Marquette, Abilene Christian)
resultsCal Winter Invite (Cal, Fresno State, St. Mary’s, Cal Poly)
results
Sunday, January 15th
Men:
M: MLK Invitational – Georgia Tech, Georgia, Columbia, Illinois – hidden-dual format (9 a.m. ET) –
Live ScoringM: Georgia State at Florida State (12:30 p.m. ET) –
Live ScoringM:
#13 Northwestern at Vanderbilt (1 p.m. ET) –
Live ScoringM: Abilene Christian at
#12 Oklahoma (1 p.m. ET) –
Live ScoringM: New Mexico at Central Florida (2 p.m. ET) –
Live Scoring/
Video (select USTA National Campus Collegiate Center)
M: Nebraska-Omaha at
#12 Oklahoma (6 p.m. ET) –
Live Scoring
Women:
W: Iowa at Central Florida (12 p.m. ET) –
Live Scoring/
Video (select USTA National Campus Collegiate Center)
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Pro Circuit Results
$25K Long Beach USA F2 Futures
SF: Collin Altamirano (Virginia Jr) def. [7] Carl Soderlund (Virginia Fr) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
SF: Marcos Giron (UCLA ’14*) vs. Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13) 6-7(1), 7-6(6), 6-2
F: Collin Altamirano (Virginia Jr) vs. Marcos Giron (UCLA ’14*)
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$15K Plantation USA F3 Futures
SF: Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. [3] Peter Nagy (Texas A&M CC ’15) 4-6, 6-1, 6-0
SF: Roberto Cid (South Florida ’16) def. Miguel Semmler 6-2, 6-1
F: Roberto Cid (South Florida ’16) vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
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$15K Schwieberdingen (Germany) F1 Futures
SF: [3] Evgeny Karlovskiy def. [1] Petr Michnev (Hawaii-Pacific ’14) 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 7-6(5) – Michnev served for it up 6-5 in the second.
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$25K ITF Daytona Beach
SF: Elizabeth Halbauer def. Caroline Dolehide (’17 UCLA commit) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(6)
D/F: Robin Anderson (UCLA ’15)/Anhelina Kalinina vs. [1] Paula Kania/Katarzyna Piter
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$15K ITF Fort-de-France, Martinique
F: Giuliana Olmos (USC ’16) def. [Q] Mokika Kilnarova 7-5, 6-1
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Australian Open Men’s Main Draw – First Round
[19] John Isner (Georgia ’07) vs. Konstantin Kravchuk
[Q} Noah Rubin (Wake Forest ’15*) vs. [Q} Bjorn Fratangelo
Steve Johnson (USC ’12) vs. Federico Delbonis
Australian Open Women’s Main Draw – First Round
Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13*) vs. [25] Timea Babos
Irina Falconi (Georgia Tech ’10*) vs. Xinyun Han
[Q} Jennifer Brady (UCLA ’15*) vs. Johanna Larsson
* didn’t stay at school for all four years
Bobby, do you know why Lazarov isn't on Wake's roster this spring?
Apparently Lazarov decided at the last minute that he didn't want to go to school so he won't be coming to Wake – al least not this year.
Hey hey. How about my UCF top 25 pick now?
Remember the name "Razvan Grigorescu" 6ft 4in Freshman at Omaha Nebraska as a Freshman took out Spencer Papa at Line 1 fro Oklahoma. All together, solid start to what looks to be excitement in NCAA Tennis action!