by Bobby Knight | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog
North Carolina won the big match of the day as they knocked off cross town rival #6 Duke 4-2. The Tar Heels started off by taking the doubles point as its #3 team of Esben Hess-Olesen and Andrew Gores provided the clincher winning 8-5. The senior duo had never played an official doubles match before today but were thrown together after fellow senior Oystein Steiro had to sit out with an injury. Duke quickly tied the match at 1 with Chris Mengel picking up a win when Esben Hess-Olesen was retired with an injury when trailing 5-2 in the 1st. Just a few minutes later UNC would retake the lead when Robert Kelly laid out TJ Pura 6-0, 6-1 at #6...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog
Pretty decent schedule of matches for a Thursday with Duke making the 10 mile trip to Chapel Hill to face North Carolina plus at least 2 of the matches in the SEC should be competitive. I have the live scoring links below so follow along when they get underway. #6 Duke (19-3) at #16 North Carolina (16-8) – 3pm est – Live Scoring – North Carolina leads the overall series by a wide margin (89-38) but Duke has won 4 of the last 5 so for North Carolina’s sake it’s a good thing that Brayden Schnur came back last week. The Tar Heels went 4-3 in Schnur’s absense but upon his return they were able to beat...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog
The match of the day took place in Fort Worth as #10 TCU held on to beat #21 Texas Tech 4-2. TCU had a dominant performance in doubles and then picked up a couple of quick wins from Facundo Lugones and Will Stein at 5 and 6 before having to withstand a Red Raider rally on the other 4 courts. Texas Tech pulled to within 3-2 after Jolan Cailleau and Felipe Soares won in straight sets at 4 and 1 and Alex Sendegeya was a game away from a win at 5 leading 5-3 in the 3rd. However TCU’s Cameron Norrie would fight off a set point in the 2nd set tiebreaker and close out his match in straight sets to clinch the TCU win.TCU recap with comments and...
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...
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