It’s a semifinal Monday in Athens with both matches expected to be close. Originally these matches were scheduled for noon eastern but with rain expected around 2 they’ve been moved up to 10 a.m. Georgia and North Carolina will play on the Henry Feild Stadium Courts while Virginia and Ohio State will play on the McWhorter Courts. North Carolina is making its first-ever appearance in the semifinals while Georgia, Virginia, and Ohio State have been there on multiple occasions.
In each of my match previews below I’ll list the projected lineups with individual singles and doubles records, individual and team UTRs, team doubles records, box scores from the previous meetings this season, plus I’ll make my prediction at the end. I’ll give the first one away for free but to see the other you’ll need to be a CTT subscriber ($9.99 month/no long term commitment required).
#9 North Carolina [9] vs. #12 Georgia [13] – Monday 10 a.m. ET – This will be the fourth time in the last six years that these two have met in the NCAA Tournament with Georgia having the edge 2-1. North Carolina won the regular season meeting in the National Team Indoors Round of 16 though only two of the six singles matches are expected to be rematches.
Feb. 17, 2017 // ITA National Indoors // Charlottesville, Va.
Doubles Results
1. Jan Zielinski/Robert Loeb (UGA) def. #21 William Blumberg/Robert Kelly (UNC), 6-4
2. Paul Oosterbaan/Walker Duncan (UGA) def. Jack Murray/Ronnie Schneider (UNC), 6-4
3. Nathan Ponwith/Wayne Montgomery (UGA) vs. Blaine Boyden/Simon Soendergaard (UNC), 5-5, unfinished
Singles Results
1. #16 Ronnie Schneider (UNC) def. #15 Wayne Montgomery (UGA), 6-3, 7-6(9)
2. William Blumberg (UNC) def. #55 Emil Reinberg (UGA), 7-5, 2-6, 6-3
3. #117 Nathan Ponwith (UGA) def. Simon Soendergaard (UNC), 6-4, 6-3
4. Jan Zielinski (UGA) vs. Robert Kelly (UNC), 6-2, 6-7 (4), 3-4, unfinished
5. Jack Murray (UNC) def. Walker Duncan (UGA), 7-5, 6-4
6. Blaine Boyden (UNC) def. Robert Loeb (UGA), 6-2, 6-3
Match Notes
Order of finish: Doubles (1, 2); Singles (6, 3, 5, 1, 2)
| Pos | ITA | Players | Team | UTR | DM W/L | ITA | Players | Team | UTR | DM W/L | |||
| 1 | 12 | William Blumberg Robert Kelly |
UNC | 14.46 | 19 | 7 |
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1 | Robert Loeb Jan Zielinski |
UGA | 14.33 | 17 | 9 |
| 2 | 82 | Jack Murray Simon Soendergaard |
UNC | 14.04 | 9 | 5 | Emil Reinberg Nathan Ponwith |
UGA | 14.12 | 8 | 5 | ||
| 3 | Anu Kodali Ronnie Schneider |
UNC | 13.82 | 11 | 2 | Wayne Montgomery Walker Duncan |
UGA | 14.15 | 15 | 3 | |||
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| 1 | 22 | Ronnie Schneider | UNC | 14.64 | 22 | 7 |
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56 | Nathan Ponwith | UGA | 14.31 | 12 | 5 |
| 2 | 16 | William Blumberg | UNC | 14.69 | 24 | 2 | 33 | Wayne Montgomery | UGA | 14.38 | 16 | 11 | |
| 3 | 116 | Robert Kelly | UNC | 14.15 | 19 | 5 | 59 | Emil Reinberg | UGA | 14.18 | 13 | 8 | |
| 4 | Simon Soendergaard | UNC | 13.60 | 9 | 13 | Jan Zielinski | UGA | 13.97 | 15 | 6 | |||
| 5 | Jack Murray | UNC | 14.21 | 24 | 5 | Walker Duncan | UGA | 14.01 | 20 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Bo Boyden | UNC | 14.06 | 21 | 4 | Robert Loeb | UGA | 13.75 | 13 | 8 | |||
| Bench Players | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Anu Kodali | UNC | 13.23 | 5 | 0 | Alex Phillips | UGA | 13.47 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 8 | Josh Peck | UNC | 13.81 | 1 | 1 | Andy Martinez | UGA | 13.09 | 0 | 0 | |||
I think Georgia will play its best doubles of the week to take the early 1-0 lead and in singles I like Georgia’s chances at 4 and 5 but finding that final point will be a little too tough. I’ll take North Carolina in singles at 1, 2, 3, and 6 to pull off the win over the hometown team. Prediction: North Carolina 4-3.
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Feb 20, 2017 at Charlottesville, VA (The Boar’s Head Sports Club)
Singles competition
1. #2 Mikael Torpegaard (OSU 15.21) def. Collin Altamirano (UVA 14.33) 6-3, 7-6(3)
2. #28 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA 14.87) def. #8 Hugo Di Feo (OSU 14.02) 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-2
3. JJ Wolf (OSU 14.43) vs. Carl Soderlund (UVA 14.61) 3-6, 7-6(3), 5-3*
4. #64 JC Aragone (UVA 14.43) def. #47 Herkko Pollanen (OSU 13.96) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4)
5. #77 Martin Joyce (OSU 13.63) vs. Alex Ritschard (UVA 14.53) 3-6, 7-5, 6-5* (15/30)
6. Henrik Wiersholm (UVA 14.32) def. Kyle Seelig (OSU 13.94) 7-6(2), 6-2
Doubles competition
Match Notes:
ITA National Team Indoors Finals
T-2:56
| 1 | 17 | Luca Corinteli Carl Söderlund |
UVA | 14.73 | 8 | 3 |
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Herkko Pollanen Mikael Torpegaard |
OSU | 14.74 | 21 | 5 | |
| 2 | Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Alexander Ritschard |
UVA | 14.78 | 23 | 1 | 30 | Hugo Di Feo Martin Joyce |
OSU | 14.67 | 19 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Collin Altamirano J.C. Aragone |
UVA | 14.62 | 21 | 3 | Hunter Tubert JJ Wolf |
OSU | 14.35 | 10 | 5 |
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| 1 | 91 | Alexander Ritschard | UVA | 14.57 | 21 | 6 |
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2 | Mikael Torpegaard | OSU | 14.93 | 28 | 2 |
| 2 | 14 | Thai-Son Kwiatkowski | UVA | 14.96 | 23 | 4 | 46 | JJ Wolf | OSU | 14.36 | 16 | 5 | |
| 3 | Carl Söderlund | UVA | 14.69 | 15 | 2 | 9 | Hugo Di Feo | OSU | 14.60 | 25 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 40 | Collin Altamirano | UVA | 14.68 | 18 | 5 | Martin Joyce | OSU | 13.78 | 13 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 109 | J.C. Aragone | UVA | 14.52 | 25 | 4 | Herkko Pollanen | OSU | 14.20 | 21 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 102 | Henrik Wiersholm | UVA | 14.54 | 22 | 1 | Kyle Seelig | OSU | 14.19 | 24 | 4 | ||
| Bench Players | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Luca Corinteli | UVA | 14.09 | 7 | 1 | Hunter Tubert | OSU | 13.39 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 8 | Aswin Lizen | UVA | 13.27 | 3 | 0 | Matt Mendez | OSU | 13.47 | 3 | 0 | |||
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In the pool xdotedot5 and kalboka are phenomenally accurate in their picks. They have a whopping 150 and 144 points respectively. And they picked UVA for tomorrow so will probably add 32 more points. If true 182 points would likely be an all time record.