by Bobby Knight | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog
Championship Sunday brought us several good matches with some decided in third set tiebreaks while others weren’t as close as we thought they’d be. The two matches pitting the highest ranked teams took place in Cary (NC) as No. 4 Wake Forest met No. 5 Virginia while No. 2 Texas and No. 8 Baylor rumbled in Lawrence (KS). Wake and Virginia split regular season meetings with each winning at home so Sunday’s rubber match was expected to be close. The doubles portion of the dual was definitely close however many of the singles matches had lopsided finals. Wake wrapped up No. 2 doubles with a 6-3 win and they served for the match at No. 3 up...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 21, 2019 | Blog
Semifinal Saturday in the major conference tournaments brought us one huge surprise as the SEC men’s host and top seed Florida was stunned by Tennessee 4-3. The Gators were riding a 15-match winning streak but Tennessee seized the early momentum after rolling through the doubles point with a 6-1 win at No. 1 and a 6-3 win at No. 2. Florida rebounded quickly in singles with Oliver Crawford, Alfredo Perez, and Duarte Vale winning in straight sets at No. 1, No. 5, and No. 6 to put the Gators in front 3-1. Tennessee countered with a straight set win by Scott Jones at No. 3 but things looked grim for the Vols when Luca Wiedenmann trailed Andy Andrade 5-3 in...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 18, 2019 | Blog
I’ve been traveling a lot over the last week due to a death in the family so I’m hoping to be back in the swing of things with tennis on Friday. I do have my conference tournament pages updated with all brackets and current results plus I have my live scoring page fully updated as well. Slam.Tennis has a ton of useful information as well including an interactive scoreboard and brackets so make sure you keep that open in a separate tab.
by Bobby Knight | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog
There will be 31 automatic bids handed for the upcoming NCAA Championships with the winners of the below conferences each getting 1 of those 31. The list of winners will be at the very bottom of this page.How is seeding done at most conferences?There are some conferences that play a round robin format during the regular season and some that do not. The ones that do not play a full round robin format usually seed the conference tournament based off the most recent ITA rankings. The next thing you’re probably wondering is what if there aren’t any teams ranked in the ITA top 50 – then what? The conferences and schools are able to see the...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog
There will be 30 automatic bids handed out for the upcoming NCAA Championships with the winners of the below conferences each getting 1 of those 30. The list of winners will be at the very bottom of this page.How is seeding done at most conferences?There are some conferences that play a round robin format during the regular season and some that do not. The ones that do not play a full round robin format usually seed the conference tournament based off the most recent ITA rankings. The next thing you’re probably wondering is what if there aren’t any teams ranked in the ITA top 50 – then what? The conferences and schools are able to see the...
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