by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
North Carolina has done it – they’ve snapped Virginia’s 140-match ACC winning streak and they did it in Charlottesville in the finals of the National Team Indoors. It what will go down as one of the all-time classics, North Carolina came back from dropping the doubles point and four first sets to defeat #1 Virginia 4-2.(Picture Courtesy of North Carolina)The doubles point started off fairly promising for North Carolina with the Tar Heels going up early breaks at #1 and #3 but Virginia would quickly erase the deficits. UNC’s #1 team of Brett Clark and Robert Kelly broke Luca Corinteli’s serve from 15-40, after Ryan Shane missed a...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
When Virginia and North Carolina step on the court at 11am it’ll be the first time ever that a pair of ACC schools will play for the Men’s National Team Indoor Championship. It’s North Carolina first appearance in the finals while Virginia will be making its sixth final in the last eight years and seventh overall.Virginia has owned North Carolina over the last 10 years winning the last 15 matches with North Carolina’s last win coming back on April 14th, 2006 (4-3 at UNC). Of course to be fair I have to mention that Virginia has won 140 straight matches against ACC schools with its last loss coming to Duke at the ACC Tournament in April...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
In the first semifinal of the day North Carolina advanced to its first-ever final at the National Team Indoors after coming from behind to beat UCLA 4-2.North Carolina didn’t take the easy way though after dropping the doubles point for the second time in three matches this weekend. UCLA’s new #3 team of Maxime Cressy and Karue Sell knocked off Blaine Boyden and Ronnie Schneider 6-3. Cressy/Sell broke UNC on the deciding point to go up 3-1 then held for 4-1. The teams exchanged holds until UCLA held from 40-15 to win 6-3.North Carolina answered by winning at #2 doubles as Jack Murray and Brayden Schnur defeated Gage Brymer and Austin Rapp 6-4....
by Bobby Knight | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
[3] North Carolina (8-0) vs. [7] UCLA (7-1) – 12pm est – North Carolina is coming off a pretty thorough 4-2 win over Ohio State while UCLA rode the wave of momentum to get past Texas A&M 4-2. It’ll be interesting to see if either team makes a change at the bottom of the singles lineup after each team’s #6 took it on the chin yesterday. I think UNC probably sticks with Kodali since he had a pretty convincing win the previous day while I look for Billy Martin to give Austin Rapp another try at #6 after Joey Di Giulio came up well short yesterday against Lunkin.Overall Record: North Carolina 8-0, UCLA 7-1Indoors Record: North...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
We now know what one of the semifinals will be at the 2016 Men’s National Team Indoor Championships after #7 North Carolina overpowered #8 Ohio State 4-2 and #9 UCLA took control late to beat #2 Texas A&M 4-2. In the opening match of the day North Carolina jumped out to an early 1-0 lead by doing something that no other team had been able to do to Ohio State this season – take the doubles point. Ohio State came into the match with a perfect 9-0 record in doubles but North Carolina took the point fairly comfortably with a 6-2 win at #1 and a 6-4 win at #2.Ohio State’s #1 team of Ralf Steinbach and Martin Joyce broke serve to start...
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