by Bobby Knight | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog
Another big coaching opening was filled as LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva named Andy Brandi and his son Chris as the men’s co-head coaches of the Tigers. Andy has plenty of coaching experience in the SEC after spending 17 exceptional seasons as the women’s head coach at Florida from 1984 to 2001. During those 17 seasons, Andy won three NCAA Championships while his teams won 91% of its matches and lost zero SEC home matches! After Andy left Florida he served as Director of Tennis at the IMG Academy for five years and then most recently he was a national coach on the USTA Player Development staff.Chris Brandi played collegiately at TCU and Florida...
by Bobby Knight | May 16, 2017 | Blog
While the NCAA Division I Tournament got started last weekend the Division II Tournament wrapped up with the West Florida men and Barry women bringing home the trophy. UWF won its fourth national championship, first since 2014, with a 5-2 win over Barry. UWF took two of three doubles matches to go in front 2-1 and then it added straight set wins from Gabriel Dias and Serdar Bojadjiev and Alfonso Castellano provided the clincher with a three set win at No. 6. UWF’s recap has more details plus you can rewatch the broadcast of the final at this link. #1 West Florida 5, #2 Barry 2May 12, 2017 at Altamonte Springs, Fla. (Sanlando, Fla.)Singles...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 26, 2017 | Blog
The 69th Blue Gray Tennis Classic came to an end on Saturday with the Rice men and Auburn women capturing titles by winning three matches in a 30-hour window. Rice started the day on Friday with a 4-0 win over Boise State and then Rice and Virginia Tech met in the semifinals with the doubles point played on Friday while singles was played Saturday morning. Rice only dropped two points in doubles and then the Owls won 9 of 11 sets in singles with David Warren clinching the 4-0 win. In Saturday afternoon’s championship match, Rice took the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and No. 2 but then the teams split first sets in singles. South Carolina picked up...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 11, 2017 | Blog
There was only one men’s match on Friday that took place between ranked teams and it happened in Columbus as No. 3 Ohio State ran its record to 8-0 with an anything but easy 4-1 win over No. 15 Kentucky. The doubles point on the other hand was pretty easy with the Buckeyes winning big at No. 2 and No. 3. Ohio State rode the momentum from the doubles point into singles and took four opening sets but Kentucky managed to get splits on two of those courts. Kentucky’s Nils Ellefsen tied the match with a straight set win at No. 4 but Ohio State countered with straight set wins from Mikael Torpegaard and Herkko Pollanen at No. 1 and No. 5. Each of the...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 13, 2016 | Blog
Saturday was semifinal day at all the fall tournaments – take a look down below to see who is playing in Sunday’s finals. Jack Kramer Invitational Semifinals:(1) Maxime Tchoutakian (Baylor) def. Constantin Frantzen (Baylor) 6-3, 6-4(6) Bjoern Petersen (Baylor) def. (5) William Little (Baylor) 6-1, 6-1 Finals(1) Maxime Tchoutakian (Baylor) vs. (6) Bjoern Petersen (Baylor) Doubles FinalSimon Freund/Nicolas Moreno de Alboaran (UCSB) def. Maxime Tchoutakian/Constantin Frantzen (Baylor) 6-4, 7-6 Wake Forest Fall Invite A1 SemifinalsBennett Crane (Indiana) def. Shamel Chaudhry (Davidson) 6-1,...
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