by Bobby Knight | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
While former college players may have been shutout in the Wimbledon qualifying singles draw there were three that pulled through on the doubles side. Max Schnur, who graduated from Columbia in 2015, qualified for his first-ever Grand Slam main draw after he and Cheng-Peng Hsieh defeated Ariel Behar Aliaksandr Bury 6-7, 7-5, 6-3. Schnur won 94 doubles matches in his four years at Columbia and achieved a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 95 back in February and is currently ranked 113. The doubles team of Johan Brunstrom (SMU ’03) and Andreas Siljestrom (Middle Tenn St ’07) also qualified for the main draw after they defeated Arenda/Peng 7-6,...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 18, 2017 | Blog
The last vacant Power Five head coaching position was filled on Friday when Minnesota Athletic Director Mark Coyle announced the hiring of Catrina Thompson as the new women’s head coach of the Gophers. Thompson comes to Minneapolis from South Bend where she has been the women’s assistant coach for the last four years. Thompson played at Notre Dame from 2003 to 2007 and also coached at Yale and Boise State. Thompson replaces Chuck Merzbacher who retired after 28 years as a head coach with the final five coming at Minnesota. Below are some quotes from Minnesota’s recap:”As an assistant coach, Catrina has contributed to significant...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 8, 2017 | Blog
Mackenzie McDonald may have left school after his junior year at UCLA but the 2016 NCAA singles champion felt right at home on a college campus as he won his second career pro singles title with a straight set win over Virginia freshman Carl Soderlund at the $25K USC/LA USA F1 Futures. Soderlund came into the match having won 8 of 9 sets this week and it looked like he’d make it 9 of 10 after the Stockholm, Sweden, native opened up an early 4-1 lead. Soderlund held fairly comfortably in each of his first three service games while also breaking McDonald’s second service game at love courtesy of two double faults. McDonald held from 40/15 to...
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