by Bobby Knight | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
The dual-match season gets underway in a few places this weekend while there are still a few more weeks of individual play at other schools.BYU opens its season tonight at 5:30pm MST against Southern Utah and Washington opens up on Saturday with a doubleheader against Seattle. Washington will have live scoring and streaming video available at this link.Florida Gulf Coast hosts the FGCU Invitational with players coming from #30 LSU, #45 Memphis, and Kentucky.Central Florida hosts the UCF Spring Invitational with players coming from Florida A&M and The Citadel.Florida State was the big winner at the Rainbow Warrior Invitational, which...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
Team USA won the Master’U BNP Paribas for the 5th year in a row and the 6th time in the last 7 years after Florida’s Brooke Austin and Cal’s Maegan Manasse sealed the title with a 7-5, 6-1 win over France’s Clemence Fayol and Alice Bacquie. Virginia’s Danielle Collins won her singles match 6-4, 6-3, Stanford’s Tom Fawcett won 4-6, 7-6, 6-3, and UCLA’s Mackenzie McDonald won 7-6, 6-1. Cal’s Manasse lost 6-2, 6-2 while Georgia’s Austin Smith was set to play in doubles but the remaining matches were called off due to the clinch.In the 10 years of the event the USA has won it 6 times (2009, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15),...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
South Carolina’s Gabriel Friedrich knocked off teammate Harrison O’Keefe 6-3, 6-7(0), 6-4 in a live streamed match on ESPN3 to win the top singles flight at the USTA Clay Court Invitational in Orlando.Comments from SC recap:”What a way to end the tournament, South Carolina head coach Josh Goffi said. “I couldn’t be more proud of Gabriel and Harrison. Both kept raising their level to trump the other’s momentum gains and, consequently, we ended up with a very high-level match at the end. They were respectful, yet extremely competitive, and that’s one of the hardest things to do when you’re...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 6, 2015 | Blog
After a week with no titles the former/current guys are storming back this week with several in contention at Futures, Challengers, and ATP Masters events across the world.The big story yesterday was #13 John Isner (Georgia ’07) knocking off the great #2 Roger Federer 7-6(3), 3-6, 7-6(5) in the 3rd round of the Paris Masters. Isner hammered 27 aces with 0 double faults and won 73% of points on his serve. Big John also won a higher % of points on Federer’s serve (29%) than Roger won on John’s (27%). Next up for John in the quarterfinals is the speedy Spaniard David Ferrer. Ferrer owns a 5-1 H2H advantage though that was the same margin that...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
After a few close matches on Saturday, Sunday brought a pair of straight sets wins with little suspense as Virginia’s Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Tulane’s Dominik Koepfer each rolled into the finals.Thai-Son Kwiatkowski actually fell behind Stanford’s Tom Fawcett 2-0 in the opening set but then he reeled off 5 straight games to go up 5-2. After a Fawcett hold, Kwiatkowski would serve out the set and then go up an immediate break in the second set to put Fawcett on his heels. Kwiatkowski wouldn’t let up and would close out the 6-3, 6-2 win in just over an hour. Dominik Koepfer would book his spot to the finals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over...
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