by Bobby Knight | Aug 12, 2016 | Blog
The top seed Michael Mmoh cruised into the semifinals in Kalamazoo but none of the other top four seeds were as fortunate. The third seed JJ Wolf was knocked out on Wednesday in a third set tiebreak and on Thursday so was the second seed John McNally. Tampa’s Vasil Kirkov managed to come back from a set down to outlast the 2017 Ohio State commit McNally in the only quarterfinal match to go three sets. Illinois commit Zeke Clark and Trent Bryde (#4 HS Class of ’18) both won in straight sets as well and in fact both of those guys and Mmoh have yet to drop a set all week.Colette Lewis talked to each of the four winners and also had the details on why...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 11, 2016 | Blog
It took almost almost a week but a top eight seed finally went down on Wednesday afternoon in Kalamazoo. In the only match of the day that went three sets it was [26] Timothy Sah upsetting [3] JJ Wolf 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(2). According to Colette Lewis’s recap at ZooTennis, Wolf served for the match up 6-5 in the third but he wasn’t able to close the door and Sah marched on through to score the upset. Colette has quotes from both Sah and Gianni Ross with the latter winning in straight sets despite an upset stomach.5th Round:[1] Michael Mmoh (Pro) def. [10] Oliver Crawford (’17) 6-1, 7-6(4) [5] Gianni Ross (’17) def. [14] Austin Huang...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog
The higher seeds continued to win on Tuesday with 14 of the day’s 16 winners being the higher ranked of the two competitors. [29] Alafia Ayeni pulled off a seeding upset over [16] Alexander Brown 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 but Ayeni was the higher rated player in just about every other category (TRN Class Ranking, UTR, ITF Jr, ATP) coming into the match. The other seeding upset came when [26] Timothy Sah ousted [13] Richard Ciamarra 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. Both of these two were pretty evenly matched with a just a .15 UTR difference so this was a toss-up going in.Alafia Ayeni 4th Round: [1] Michael Mmoh (Pro) def. [18] Keegan Smith (’17) 6-2, 6-2 [10] Oliver...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog
Seeded players had a great day on Monday with 24 of 25 seeds moving on to the fourth round with the 15th seed William Genesen the only seeded loser. 24 of the 32 third round matches finished in straight sets with many winning rather convincingly. Full results from Monday are available here and on my spreadsheet under the 3rd round tab and below are the number of games that the winners dropped.Game Dropped: 0 – [14] Austin Huang 1 – [1] Michael Mmoh, [3] JJ Wolf 2 – [6] Zeke Clark, [8] Trent Bryde, [30] Patrick Kypson3 – [5] Gianni Ross, [16] Alexander Brown 4 – [2] John McNally, [18] Keegan Smith, [20] Sebastian Korda, [29]...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog
All the top seeds took the court today in Kalamazoo for the second round of the Boys 18 National Championships and for the most part they had very little trouble. Each of the top 22 seeds won with 19 of them winning in straight sets however 6 of the bottom 10 were knocked out. Below were the seeded losers with college commitments listed in parenthesis. Seeded Upsets Aleksandar Kovacevic (Illinois) def. [23] Matthew Lord 6-7(3), 6-0, 6-2 John Carlin def. [24] Ryan Seggerman 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 Robert Krill (Wisconsin) def. [25] Jason Lui (Columbia) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 Kristopher Ortega (Illinois) def. [28] Maxwell Freeman 6-4, 6-1 Payton Holden (Princeton) def. [31]...
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