The ITA announced the Men’s National Team Indoors All-Tournament team on Thursday with Virginia filling four of the six singles spots and two of three doubles teams. Ohio State junior Mikael Torpegaard was named the tournament MVP after going 4-0 in singles at No. 1 with wins over Oklahoma’s Andrew Harris, Oklahoma State’s Julian Cash, Wake Forest’s Petros Chrysochos, and Virginia’s Collin Altamirano. No other player went 4-0 in singles although Virginia’s Collin Altamirano and JC Aragone pulled off the feet in doubles.
And we have a challenge! There were 21 in total yesterday at the #PlayFair Challenge between @USCMensTennis and @CalPolyMTennis. pic.twitter.com/s4LFFL3lGk
— playsight (@PlaySight) February 24, 2017
The second PlayFair Challenge dual-match took place on Thursday afternoon between USC and Cal Poly. Cal Poly took the doubles point over USC but the Trojans bounced back in singles and picked up straight set wins from Brandon Holt, Jack Jaede, Riley Smith, and Rob Bellamy while Cal Poly picked up straight set wins from Corey Pang and Garrett Auproux.
There 21 challenges made in the match of which 6 took place in doubles and 15 in singles. 6 of the challenges were on serves while 15 were on groundstrokes. A total of 5 challenges (2 on serves) results in a reversal of the original call while the other 16 were either bad challenges or there the evidence was inconclusive.
#12 USC 4, #33 Cal Poly 3
February 23, 2017 | Marks Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Doubles results
(1) #29 Holt/ R. Smith (USC) def. #35 Donovan/Pang (CP) – 6-3
(2) Enander/Tan (CP) def. #60 Crystal/Verboven (USC) – 6-4
(3) Ortlip/Auproux (CP) def. Bellamy/Jaede (USC) – 6-3
Cal Poly wins doubles point.
Order of finish: 3, 1, 2
Singles results
(1) #27 Brandon Holt (USC) def. #57 Ben Donovan (CP) – 6-3, 6-4
(2) Corey Pang (CP) def. #42 Logan Smith (USC) – 7-5, 6-4
(3) Garrett Auproux (CP) def. Thibault Forget (USC) – 7-6, 6-3
(4) Jack Jaede (USC) def. Josh Ortlip (CP) – 6-4, 7-6 (2)*
(5) Riley Smith (USC) def. Antoine Noel (CP) – 6-2, 6-3
(6) Rob Bellamy (USC) def. Axel Damiens (CP) – 6-1, 7-5
Order of finish: 5, 6, 3, 1, 4*, 2
Why are some teams in bold on your live scoring page?
When I first keyed these in a few weeks back all those teams were ranked but I forgot to go back and update them once the top 50 came out this week.