by Bobby Knight | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog
Get your dinner done early because there’s some big time tennis tonight in Waco as #2 Baylor hosts #1 Oklahoma. Baylor will have a blog running in addition to providing live scoring and streaming video so if you’re around a computer check it out. All the scoring, video, blog, twitter links are done below at the bottom of this post. #1 Oklahoma (20-1) at #2 Baylor (17-3) – 7pm est – Oklahoma has already beat Baylor twice this year, once indoors in Chicago and once outdoors in California (box scores below), so you’d think it’d be tough to beat them again. Since the 2nd meeting Oklahoma has played and beat #10...
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...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog
There aren’t any top 10 match-ups on Friday but there are several in the top 40 that will be playing each other. Below are my previews of the 2 biggest ones along with a few other storylines.#13 Virginia Tech (14-2) at #23 Louisville (19-4) – 2:30pm est – The Cards have won 5 in a row and 7 of 8 with 4 of those being ranked wins while the Hokies have won 2 straight and 11 of 12 with 6 of those being over ranked teams. Louisville is 18-5 in doubles while Virginia Tech is 9-7.FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of April 2nd. For more details about UTR check out...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog
Wednesday was a rough day to be a top 20 team on the road as both #13 Ole Miss and #19 Northwestern got upset.In Houston, Rice picked up its 1st win over a top 20 opponent since 2009 when the Owls stunned Northwestern 4-1. Rice took the doubles and then picked up singles wins from Srikar Alla, Max Andrews and David Warren at 1, 2, and 5. Northwestern’s Logan Staggs won at #4 singles in a losing effort and Konrad Zieba made his season debut at #3 singles for the Cats and led when the match was halted. Rice recap”All through the season, we have always stressed the importance of building the energy and putting up a fight no matter the...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 20, 2015 | Blog
As the excitement of the NCAA Basketball Tournament sweeps the nation I’m sure we’ll see some excitement on the tennis courts this weekend as well. Wake Forest hosts Virginia Tech in a top 16 showdown, 6 top 30 teams will be in Indian Wells for the BNP Paribas Collegiate Challenge, and 7 top 50 teams are in San Diego for the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Classic. If you can’t make it out in person follow along with the live scoring/update links down below. It appears they have live streaming on 2 of the courts at Indian Wells – click here for those streams.#16 Virginia Tech (12-1) at #12 Wake Forest (11-4) – 4pm est...
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