by Bobby Knight | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog
One day you’re on the top of the mountain and the next day your toppling down the hill. Illinois took the court today against #8 TCU just 16 hours removed from its big win over #2 Virginia so you had to figure they’d have a tough time replicating the same energy in such a short span.It was sunny and 65 degrees outside at match time but the 25-30 mile per hour wind gusts kept play indoors. I knew the crowd wouldn’t be as big as Saturday night but I was impressed with the Sunday afternoon turnout of just over 400.Illinois got off to a quick start at #1 and #2 doubles while TCU jumped out to the early lead at #3. Illinois’s #1 team of...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 21, 2016 | Blog
It was Big Slam Saturday at The Farm and as expected Cal and Stanford gave us another 4-3 classic. Last season each team won at the other’s place and this year is starting off the same after Cal gutted out a 4-3 win in a match that took 3 hours and 59 minutes.The 52-minute doubles point was extremely tight with breaks hard to come by at both #1 and #3. Cal’s #2 team of Andre Goransson and Billy Griffith jumped out to a 5-2 lead but Stanford’s Nolan Paige and David Wilczynski would come back and take five straight to win it 7-5.The match at #1 stayed on serve until Stanford’s Maciek Romanowicz double faulted on match point at 30-40 to...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 13, 2016 | Blog
The second half of the day kicked off with USC playing South Florida on the stadium courts while TCU and Illinois duked it out on the back six.South Florida knew it needed the doubles point to give itself a chance to win and it took the point with a 6-0 rout at #3 and a 6-3 win at #2.Singles however was a different story as USC really jumped USF especially at the top of the lineup. USC’s Nick Crystal, Max de Vroome, Jake DeVine, Logan Smith, and Thibault Forget took first sets while USF’s only first set came from Peter Bertran at #5. Fortunately for South Florida, the Georgia transfer made quick work of USC’s Laruens Verboven by winning 6-2,...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog
The draws are out and the lineups are set for the 2016 ITA Men’s National Team Indoor Championships with play getting started on Friday at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. Play gets started each day at 9am eastern and finishes each night around 9 to 10pm.I’m going to preview each round of 16 match using the master lineups that each team submitted and I’ll make my predictions as well. With this being an indoor event I’ll also take into account which teams are comfortable playing indoors while others only play indoors a handful of times each season.There will be live scoring on all 12 courts but only...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
Some days things go your way and some days they don’t – for TCU, Oklahoma, and Stanford it was the latter while Cal, North Carolina, and Texas walked away with big smiles on its faces.Cal got punched in the gut when it couldn’t participate in the Kick-Off Weekend due to weather but they made up for it this weekend in spades with wins over #26 Texas and #2 TCU.Both Cal and TCU played physical matches on Saturday with each getting pushed by its opponents but while Cal bounced back TCU wasn’t able to keep up the Bears.TCU pulled out the doubles point for the second day in a row with wins at #2 and #3 but Cal got humming in singles and took...
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