by Bobby Knight | Feb 16, 2019 | Blog
The opening day of the Men’s National Team Indoor Championships in Chicago was a day of upsets and near-upsets as No. 2 Mississippi State and No. 4 Florida went down while No. 3 Wake Forest and No. 5 Texas survived and held on. The top seed Ohio State had no issues, North Carolina blanked a less than 100% Baylor, UCLA overcame the loss of one of its top players to get past Notre Dame, and Virginia surged past Stanford 4-2. The day started off with the biggest upset by seeding as No. 15 TCU defeated No. 2 Mississippi State 4-1. The Horned Frogs overcame the loss of the doubles point after dropping the decider at No. 1 in a tiebreak 7-5 but they...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 13, 2019 | Blog
Tuesday was a great day for Ohio State with the Buckeyes taking care of business on the court against USC while also being named as the top seed at this weekend’s Men’s National Team Indoor Championships in Chicago. Ohio State ran its record to 9-0 after posting its sixth shutout of the young season with a 5-0 win over No. 5 USC. It looked like the Buckeyes might start off in a 1-0 hole after going down breaks at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles but they managed to get both back on serve. Alex Kobelt and James Trotter came back from 3-5 down to clinch the doubles point with a 7-6(4) win at No. 2 and Hunter Tubert and John McNally picked up a late break to...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog
The ITA announced the Men’s National Team Indoors All-Tournament team on Thursday with Virginia filling four of the six singles spots and two of three doubles teams. Ohio State junior Mikael Torpegaard was named the tournament MVP after going 4-0 in singles at No. 1 with wins over Oklahoma’s Andrew Harris, Oklahoma State’s Julian Cash, Wake Forest’s Petros Chrysochos, and Virginia’s Collin Altamirano. No other player went 4-0 in singles although Virginia’s Collin Altamirano and JC Aragone pulled off the feet in doubles.NTI All-Tournament Team Singles1. Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State) 4-02. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
What a match it was!! The final of the 2017 Men’s ITA National Team Indoor Championships had it all from a controversial ending to the doubles point, to someone getting a game penalty for a racquet smash, to guys coming back from multiple breaks down, and to finally having JC Aragone fight off a match point to clinch the championship in a third set tiebreak. So let’s start with the doubles point which was expected to be highly competitive and it was on a few courts but most definitely was not at No. 1. Virginia’s Luca Corinteli and Carl Soderlund had yet to pick up a win during the tournament, because Virginia had already clinched elsewhere,...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
What a match it was!! Virginia holds off Ohio State 4-1 – more to come later…..box score down below. #1 Virginia 4, #3 Ohio State 1Feb 20, 2017 at Charlottesville, VA (The Boar’s Head Sports Club)Singles competition1. #2 Mikael Torpegaard (OSU 15.21) def. Collin Altamirano (UVA 14.33) 6-3, 7-6(3)2. #28 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA 14.87) def. #8 Hugo Di Feo (OSU 14.02) 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-23. JJ Wolf (OSU 14.43) vs. Carl Soderlund (UVA 14.61) 3-6, 7-6(3), 5-3*4. #64 JC Aragone (UVA 14.43) def. #47 Herkko Pollanen (OSU 13.96) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4)5. #77 Martin Joyce (OSU 13.63) vs. Alex Ritschard (UVA 14.53) 3-6, 7-5, 6-5*...
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