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 | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog
We are coming up one the 1 year anniversary of one of the odder things that has happened in college tennis in the last several years.Last year on March 28th, Illinois and Penn State played an exhausting dual match in State College that lasted just under 6 hours (4 indoor courts) and ended with the Illini coming out on top thanks to Julian Childers coming back from a set down to win in 3. After the match each coach praised the other team and talked about how great a match it was – I mean why wouldn’t they after spending almost 6 hours together. So why is all this so strange? It’s strange because 5 days later the Big 10 overturned the...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog
Who saw this one coming? Alabama shocks #9 Ole Miss 4-2 in T-Town. The same Alabama team that came into the match with an 8-9 record with the 8 wins being over powerhouses UAB, Samford, Jackson State (4X), and Jacksonville State (2X). The same Ole Miss team that routed a top 15 Vanderbilt team last weekend and the same team that gave #1 Oklahoma all it wanted at the National Indoors. Total head-scratcher….Ole Miss played well in doubles and took the point by winning at 1 and 3 but singles got off to a rough start when William Kallberg retired 3 games in at #4 singles. The Bama recap said it was due to injury but didn’t...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 22, 2015 | Blog
I knew it’d be hard for today’s matches to follow up those from Friday but while a few of them came up short in the drama department the one that didn’t was the “Big Slam” in Berkeley as Stanford pulled out a classic 4-3 win over rival Cal. Cal jumped out to the early lead by taking the doubles point with a 7-5 win at #3 doubles in the clinching match. Stanford welcomed freshman David Hsu back into the singles lineup at 5 which shifted Nolan Paige to 6 while Cal made a switch at 5 and 6 and moved Greg Bayane up from 6 to 5 and dropped Wikberg from 5 to 6. After dropping the doubles point the momentum shifted...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 8, 2015 | Blog
Saturday didn’t have any Top 10 showdowns but there were several solid matches between ranked teams. The biggest upset of the day, in terms of ranking, came in Blacksburg as #37 Virginia Tech took it to #22 Penn State 4-1. The Hokies took 10 of 11 sets in singles after dropping the doubles point. Penn State has now lost 2 of its last 3 and is looking at a tough road next weekend when they head to Chicago for the National Indoors against the best of the best with its opening match against #1 USC. VT RecapPSU Recap#37 Virginia Tech 4, #22 Penn State 1Singles1. #35 Amerigo Contini (VT) def. Leonard Stakhovsky (PSU) 7-5, 6-32. #61 Andreas...
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