by Bobby Knight | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog
The oldest tennis rivalry in the Deep South will add another chapter to its history books on Thursday evening when 17th ranked Florida hosts 7th ranked Georgia with 1st serve set to go up at 5:30pm sharp. Georgia has played Florida more times than any other opponent and the same goes for Florida. One oddity I noticed is that Florida’s media guide shows it’s played Georgia 100 times while Georgia’s only lists 75 matches against Florida. Below is what each shows is the record against the other: Georgia shows an all-time record of 56-19 against Florida,Florida shows an all-time record of 39-60-1 against Georgia....
by Bobby Knight | Feb 22, 2015 | Blog
Rain is in the forecast in many parts of the country so matches are being cancelled or being moved indoors. Here is my preview of the bigger matches on Sunday (Texas A&M/Tulsa already cancelled due to rain).#23 Vanderbilt (8-2) at #25 Harvard (8-2)- 12pm est – Harvard Twitter & Video – Both teams have beaten Minnesota over the last 2 days with Vandy squeaking out a 4-3 win on Friday while Harvard throttled the Gophers pretty good on Saturday by a 5-2. Vandy is 7-2 in doubles while Harvard is 8-2 so it should be a pretty exciting start to the the match. I could see Harvard winning the match despite...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 22, 2015 | Blog
I knew it’d be hard for today’s matches to follow up those from Friday but while a few of them came up short in the drama department the one that didn’t was the “Big Slam” in Berkeley as Stanford pulled out a classic 4-3 win over rival Cal. Cal jumped out to the early lead by taking the doubles point with a 7-5 win at #3 doubles in the clinching match. Stanford welcomed freshman David Hsu back into the singles lineup at 5 which shifted Nolan Paige to 6 while Cal made a switch at 5 and 6 and moved Greg Bayane up from 6 to 5 and dropped Wikberg from 5 to 6. After dropping the doubles point the momentum shifted...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 21, 2015 | Blog
Friday was an entertaining start to the weekend and I expect that Saturday should more of the same. Let’s take a look at the highlighted matches on Saturday.The number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of the current date so Notre Dame’s Quentin Monaghan has a 14.28 UTR as of today 2/21. For more details about UTR check out theirwebsite. #17 Notre Dame (6-1) at #9 Ohio State (10-3) – 12pm est – Live Scoring & Streaming – Ohio State goes for #200 in a row at home (according to my records) though it won’t be easy as Notre Dame...
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