by Bobby Knight | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog
The upsets keep on coming and today it was #2 Duke’s turn as the Blue Devils got stunned by #44 Virginia Tech 6-1. What made the Hokies win that much more impressive was the fact that Virginia Tech played singles without its #1 player Amerigo Contini which meant everybody else had to slide up 1 spot in the lineup. Duke was also without its #5 singles player Chris Mengel.Duke started off fine by taking the doubles point with wins at 1 and 2 but Virginia Tech would pick off Duke 1 by 1 in singles. Florian Nicoud started things off by blowing out Josh Levine at #5 singles 6-1, 6-3 then Aaron Gomez gave Tech its first lead when he finished...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog
Who saw this one coming? Alabama shocks #9 Ole Miss 4-2 in T-Town. The same Alabama team that came into the match with an 8-9 record with the 8 wins being over powerhouses UAB, Samford, Jackson State (4X), and Jacksonville State (2X). The same Ole Miss team that routed a top 15 Vanderbilt team last weekend and the same team that gave #1 Oklahoma all it wanted at the National Indoors. Total head-scratcher….Ole Miss played well in doubles and took the point by winning at 1 and 3 but singles got off to a rough start when William Kallberg retired 3 games in at #4 singles. The Bama recap said it was due to injury but didn’t...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 7, 2015 | Blog
The weekend is here and it was a fantastic Friday of tennis with the match of the day taking place in front of a national ESPN3 audience as Florida went into Tallahassee and pulled out a 4-2 win. Florida State picked up the doubles point by winning at 1 and 3 but Florida came out swinging in singles taking 4 1st sets. After FSU extended the lead to 2-0 with a Cristian Gonzalez Mendez win at 5, Florida started finishing off courts 1 by 1 with Gordon Watson winning at 4 then Chase Perez-Blanco at 6. With the score tied at 2-2, each of the remaining matches went to a 3rd set and after Elliott Orkin closed out Michael Rinaldi at #3 to give Florida its...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 6, 2015 | Blog
After a slow week things kick back into high gear tomorrow with the start of the Women’s National Team Indoors and with a fairly full slate on the men’s side.Georgia at Georgia Tech (5pm est) – The Bulldogs have won 27 of the last 28 in the series but Georgia Tech looks better this year than they have in a while. These teams just met 2 weeks ago at the MLK Invitational in Atlanta with Georgia Tech taking 4 of 7 singles matches and 2 of 3 in doubles in the hidden dual format. Georgia’s Wayne Montgomery didn’t participate in the weekend event so with him back in the lineup and possibly playing at #1 I think the Bulldogs will...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog
What was expected to be an exciting Friday of college tennis didn’t disappoint as both Notre Dame and Duke picked up tough hard fought wins over Northwestern and Illinois. Oklahoma went on the road to Winston-Salem and put it to Wake Forest In Champaign, Illinois had a 17 match home court winning streak get snapped by a game bunch of Blue Devils from Durham. Duke started things off by taking the doubles point but Illinois quickly tied it up as freshman stud Aleks Vukic steamrolled Bruno Semenzato at #4 singles 6-1 6-1. It looked like Illinois was going to take a 2-1 lead with senior Ross Guignon up 6-1 5-0 on Duke junior Josh...
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