by Bobby Knight | Jan 9, 2016 | Blog
LSU’s guys were the top performers in Day 1 of the FGCU Invitational as they went 5-2 in singles and 2-1 in doubles. Kentucky had 2 freshmen make their debuts as Ryotaro Matsumura (14.08) won in straight sets over Memphis’s Felix Rauch (12.63) while Enzo Wallart (13.17) lost a tough 3-setter to Memphis’s Kai Lemke (13.38).Friday Results Singles/DoublesLSU 5-2/2-1Kentucky 5-3/1-3Memphis 3-4/2-1FGCU 2-6/2-22016 FLORIDA GULF COAST INVITE – DAY ONE RESULTSSingles Competition#87 Andrew Watson (Memphis) def. Nils Ellefsen (Kentucky) 7-6 (7-3), 6-2Ryan Peniston (Memphis) def. Trey Yates (Kentucky) 6-1, 6-4Ryotaro Matsumura (Kentucky)...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog
Typically Mondays only have 1 or 2 matches but there were a handful of decent ones on the slate today with Cal Poly going into Boise and winning, Memphis winning at South Alabama, and UCLA getting a slightly tougher than expected win over UNLV.UCLA won the battle of the abbreviations with a 6-1 win over UNLV. UCLA was a little shorthanded with 2 of its top 3 players out of the doubles lineup with Mackenzie McDonald (14.91) and Martin Redlicki both participating in a Futures event in Calabasas this week. After UCLA dropped the doubles point things were actually looking a little concerning but fortunately Redlicki was able to make it back in time to...
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 | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog
It seemed like the story of the day wasn’t who was playing; it was who wasn’t playing as several big names were missing from their respective team’s starting lineups. The big rematch between Baylor and Virginia didn’t come close to matching the level of play that we saw the first time around. Virginia was without 2 of it’s starters with neither Thai-Son Kwiatkowski or Alexander Ritschard playing. Below is a quote from Virginia’s recap that talks about the absence of the 2 players: “We have two losses this year and both have come at the hands of Baylor,” said head coach Brian Boland. “They...
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