by Bobby Knight | May 1, 2015 | Blog
NCAA Interactive Bracket & Printable Bracket – all times EST.Oklahoma RegionalHeadington Family Tennis Center – Norman, OK[1] Oklahoma (24-2) vs. [49-64] New Mexico State (11-13) – Friday 5pm – Not a whole lot of analysis needed for this one with the #1 team in the country playing the WAC champs who come in with a losing record. This will be Oklahoma’s 27th match this year but only the 2nd against an unranked opponent – Purdue was the other.Doubles Records: Oklahoma 14-12, New Mexico State 11-11UTR Starting 6 Power Rating: Oklahoma 86, New Mexico State 73FYI, the number beside the...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog
Florida Gulf Coast was the big winner today as the Eagles earned its first ever NCAA berth by defeating North Florida 4-3 in the finals of the Atlantic Sun. The teams met in the regular season 2 weeks ago with FGCU winning 7-0 but FGCU figured it wouldn’t be as easy this time around despite UNF playing without its injured #1 Jack Findel-Hawkins (13.32). The match, held in Jacksonville at UNF, started on Sunday but before the rain came UNF captured the doubles point by winning a pair of tiebreaks at 2 and 3. Usually when you have the top 2 seeds playing for a conference championship you expect several 3-setters but all 6 singles matches...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog
Championship Sunday (Part 1) lived up to the advance billing with the SEC and Missouri Valley delivering heart pounding thrillers. When #1 and #2 play you expect to see a great match and that’s what Georgia and Texas A&M delivered on Sunday afternoon in College Station. Texas A&M got off to a fast start in doubles by going up early breaks at 2 and 3 and once A&M had the lead on those courts they would not relinquish it the rest of the way. The A&M #3 duo of AJ Catanzariti/Arthur Rinderknech finished first winning 6-3 then just as Georgia’s #1 team of Austin Smith and Ben Wagland were 6-3 winners A&M’s #2 team...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 8, 2015 | Blog
Saturday didn’t have any Top 10 showdowns but there were several solid matches between ranked teams. The biggest upset of the day, in terms of ranking, came in Blacksburg as #37 Virginia Tech took it to #22 Penn State 4-1. The Hokies took 10 of 11 sets in singles after dropping the doubles point. Penn State has now lost 2 of its last 3 and is looking at a tough road next weekend when they head to Chicago for the National Indoors against the best of the best with its opening match against #1 USC. VT RecapPSU Recap#37 Virginia Tech 4, #22 Penn State 1Singles1. #35 Amerigo Contini (VT) def. Leonard Stakhovsky (PSU) 7-5, 6-32. #61 Andreas...
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