by Bobby Knight | May 3, 2015 | Blog
Virginia RegionalSnyder Tennis Center – Charlottesville, VA[3] Virginia (23-3) vs. [49-64] St. John’s (15-8) – Friday 1pm – #3 Virginia received the ACC’s automatic bid after beating #12 Wake Forest 4-2 in the ACC Championship while St. John’s got the Big East’s automatic bid after defeating Marquette 4-2 in the Big East Championship. St. John’s finished the year on a 6-match winning streak and won 11 of its final 12. The Red Storm went 0-6 against ranked teams on the year.Doubles Records: Virginia 23-3, St. John’s 11-11UTR Starting 6 Power Rating: Virginia 87, St....
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2015 | Blog
It’s go time for the ACC, Big 10, and Big 12 with each conference down to the semifinals of their conference tournaments plus the Pac 12 has reached its Championship match.ACC:#5 [1] Virginia vs. #16 [4] North Carolina – 10am est – Virginia won both the regular season meetings with the Wahoos beating UNC 6-1 in Charlottesville and blanking them 4-0 at the National Indoors in Chicago. Neither match was particularly close though the match at UVA was the better of the two with UNC taking 3 sets and losing several 7-5. FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of April 25th For...
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 18, 2015 | Blog
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside at night the Minnesota Golden Gophers jumped out from behind the tree and yelled boo and shocked #3 Illinois 4-3. Minnesota took the doubles point for the 20th time in 24 matches by getting wins at #1 (Jack Hamburg/Mathieu Froment) and #2 (Felix Corwin/Leandro Toledo) with the win at #2 coming in the tiebreak. Illinois had won the doubles point in the previous 6 matches but is now just 15-10 on the year in doubles.Despite falling behind, many people including myself thought Illinois would turn it on in singles and still get it done but Minnesota said not tonight. The biggest singles upset came in the first...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 4, 2015 | Blog
The big upset of the day came in Starkville as the Bulldogs from Mississippi State upset the Bulldogs from Georgia 4-2. Mississippi State took the doubles point for the 16th time this year and is now 11-0 in doubles at home. State fell a break behind at both #1 and #3 but managed to turn both courts around and would clinch the point with a win at #1 over the #1 ranked team in the country. Mississippi State kept the momentum going during singles play and jumped out to early break leads on 5 of 6 courts. Mississippi State’s Rishab Agarwal was 1st off the court with a 6-2, 6-2 win at #5 singles over Nick Wood in a match that was pretty lopsided...
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