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 2, 2015 | Blog
There were 3 good matches on Wednesday’s docket with the higher ranked team winning each of them. #1 Oklahoma overcame the loss of the doubles point to #20 Tulsa by taking it to the Golden Hurricanes in singles winning all 10 completed sets. Axel Alvarez, Dane Webb, Alex Ghilea, and Spencer Papa all won in singles.#8 Texas A&M was pushed by #48 Rice in doubles but pulled out the deciding court in a tiebreak. The Aggies took 9 of 10 completed sets in singles and got its 3 points from Harrison Adams, AJ Catanzariti, and Max Lunkin. The win by #51 Harrison Adams was his first dual match win this season after starting out 0-8. #17 San...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 30, 2015 | Blog
It was expected to be a dynamite day with 4 matches taking place between top 15 teams but in the end we got 4 lopsided matches with 3 of the 4 wrapped up in under 2 hours and 20 minutes.Illinois put an end to Ohio State’s 97 match regular season Big 10 winning streak with a 4-0 win. The Illini surprised many by taking the doubles point with wins at 2 and 3 doubles. Illinois’ #2 team of Aron Hiltzik and Ross Guignon got a break to start the match and never looked and rolled to an 8-5 win. Below is match point which includes a swing and miss by Diaz. The Illinois’ #3 team of Farris Gosea and Aleks Vukic fell behind 3-1 before...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 29, 2015 | Blog
Sunday should be a fabulous day of tennis with 4 matches taking place between top 15 teams with Champaign, Charlottesville, College Station, and Norman the hot places to be. 3 of the 4 will take place outdoors with only the Ohio State/Illinois match likely headed indoors due to crummy weather.I see at least 1 lower ranked team winning but I definitely wouldn’t call it an upset. Check out the stats and projected lineups and see if you can figure out who wins each match.#11 Ohio State (16-6) at #3 Illinois (16-3) – 1pm est – This will be the 2nd meeting of the year between these two with Illinois taking the first one 4-2 in the...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 28, 2015 | Blog
Oklahoma got pushed by TCU in singles but ultimately the Sooners had too much depth and outlasted TCU 4-1. After OU took the doubles point they picked up 4 1st sets and ended up getting wins from Andrew Harris, Alex Ghilea, and Spencer Papa at 1, 4, and 5. TCU’s lone point came from freshman Guillermo Nunez as he hammered Dane Webb 6-3, 6-2 at #3. The 2 remaining matches were abandoned with each early in the 3rd set. Oklahoma recap”It was a good match, head coach John Roddick said. “TCU played very well and they played hard. We got a pretty good lead on them and they forced us into third sets. Our guys competed...
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