by Bobby Knight | Nov 19, 2016 | Blog
Since the fall college season has come to a close I thought I’d take a look at the players with college ties that are in action at Pro Circuit events across the planet. We’ll start in Champaign where Georgia Tech junior Chris Eubanks was playing for a spot in the finals of the JSM Challenger against ATP #141 Henri Laaksonen. After splitting a pair of tiebreaks, Eubanks jumped out to a single-break 3-0 lead in the third set but he’d be unable to close it out as Laaksonen took six of the next seven games to take it 7-6(3), 6-7(6), 6-4. Eubanks definitely showed he belonged after hitting 14 aces, landing 64 percent of his first serves, and...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog
Georgia Tech junior Chris Eubanks won his first-ever main draw Challenger match on Monday at the JSM Challenger of Champaign-Urbana and on Thursday he moved into the semifinals after Michael Mmoh withdrew with a left elbow strain. Eubanks entered the week with an ATP ranking of 937 but he’s now headed inside the top 650 with a chance to go even higher if he can get past the second seed Henri Laaksonen on Friday night.Five of the eight guys remaining in the doubles semifinals have college ties with Dominik Koepfer (Tulane ’16) and Alex Lawson (Notre Dame ’16) set to meet Luke Bambridge and Liam Broady while Austin Krajicek (Texas A&M...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 13, 2016 | Blog
It’s officially time to open the book on another season of college tennis and the first page contains the preseason individual rankings which were released earlier on Tuesday. For those that weren’t aware these preseason rankings are simply last year’s final rankings with all the graduating seniors removed along with those that turned pro or are taking the fall off to play pro events. There are no freshmen included in these initial singles rankings although there is a list of the top 10 newcomers. Ohio State junior Mikael Torpegaard lands at No. 1 in the men’s rankings after finishing last year at No. 2. TCU junior Cameron Norrie is at...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
What had already been a good week for Chris Eubanks turned into a great week after the Georgia Tech rising junior upset world #104 Thiago Monteiro to qualify for the main draw at the BB&T ATP 250 Atlanta Open. Eubanks had to earn a spot in the qualifying field by winning a Wild Card playoff over teammate Cole Fiegel and 2013 Samford graduate Zac Dunkle and then he had to beat world #210 Tommy Paul in the opening round of qualies just to get to today’s match against Monteiro.Eubanks earned the only break of the first set when he broke Monteiro’s 2-2 service game to go ahead 3-2 and three holds later he had the opening set 6-4. Eubanks broke...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 27, 2016 | Blog
Norfolk State Athletics Director Marty Miller announced the hiring of Darryl Cummings as the Spartans new men’s and women’s head coach. Cummings was most recently the men’s and women’s coach at D3’s Virginia Wesleyan during the 2014 and 2015 seasons but he’s most known for his 20 years at Old Dominion from 1992-2011. Cummings replaces Worth Richardson who stepped down after two seasons to take a position at the Smith Stearns Tennis Academy.A big welcome to new #NSU tennis head coach Darryl Cummings!! ?https://t.co/Hgjj44UJYqpic.twitter.com/0jcYTrBBJl— NSU Athletics (@NSUSpartans) July 27, 2016 Georgia Tech rising...
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