by Bobby Knight | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog
The coaching carousel kept spinning on Wednesday with Old Dominion head coach Aljosa Piric named as the new head coach at Miami (FL). Piric had been ODU’s head coach for the last five years and was named the Wilson/ITA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year this past season after guiding the Monarchs to a 21-5 record and a national ranking of #47. This past season was ODU’s best in Piric’s tenure with the Monarchs making it to the finals of the Conference USA Tournament before falling to Rice (host). Piric’s five-year record in Norfolk was 76-35 (21-5, 16-3, 12-10, 14-7, 13-10) however ODU was unable to reach the NCAA Tournament in any of...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog
Wimbledon qualies officially got underway on Monday but several matches were pushed back until today due to rain. Former college players performed pretty well today going 6-6 although there were two head-to-head matches that guaranteed at least two winners. Austin Krajicek won the closest match of the day by knocking off former Tennessee All-American JP Smith 11-9 in the third. The only break of serve in the final set came when Smith got broke from 15/40 while serving at 9-10.Former Memphis Tiger Joe Salisbury, ATP #706, won his first-ever qualifying match at a Grand Slam with a come from behind 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-3 win over ATP #163 Alessandro Giannessi. It...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog
Jeremy Feldman was named as the new head coach at Charlotte after serving as Tony Bresky’s assistant coach at Wake Forest for the last two years. Feldman is a 2011 Cornell graduate who also served as a volunteer assistant at Wake Forest in 2012-13 and then was Danny Westerman’s assistant coach at Denver during the 2013-14 season.Jeremy Feldman (Picture Via Wake Forest)Charlotte has been playing tennis since 1964 but it has only made it to the NCAA Tournament once in 2007 which also happened to be the year it claimed its one and only conference championship. Charlotte opened the $5M Halton-Wagner Tennis Complex in 2012 so from a facility standpoint...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog
There were five guys with college ties playing for singles titles on Sunday and after an 0-3 start both Sekou Bangoura and Evan King salvaged the day.Sekou Bangoura (Florida ’11) picked up his fourth career Futures singles title with a straight set win over #274 Darian King in the finals of the the Winston-Salem USA F18 Futures (Hard). Bangoura broke King in a one-deuce game to go up 3-1 in the first but King broke back from 30/40 to make it 3-2. Bangoura made it three breaks in a row when he broke in a two-deuce game to go up 4-2 and a few games later he had a 6-3 first set. Bangoura broke from 15/40 to start the second set and then he broke again in a...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 19, 2016 | Blog
It was a great day for several former collegians on the pro tour with two picking up singles titles and five others moving on to a Sunday final.Alejandro Gomez (Kentucky ’14) won his first career pro singles title at the Cartagena, Columbia, F1 Futures (Hard) with a thrilling three-set win over #551 Juan Sebastian Gomez. Alejandro broke Juan in a one-deuce game to go up 2-1 in the first set and he made that break lead hold up and took the opening set 6-4. Juan broke Alejandro from 30/40 to go up 3-1 in the second and then broke him again from 30/40 to take the set 6-2. Juan broke Alejandro in a one-deuce game to go up 2-0 in the third but Alejandro broke...
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