by Bobby Knight | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
The ITA released its final singles and doubles rankings of the year with both of the NCAA Singles Champions, Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Brienne Minor, finishing ranked No. 9. TCU’s Cameron Norrie finished at No. 1 in the men’s rankings while Ohio State’s Francesca Di Lorenzo was tops on the women’s side.Oklahoma’s Andrew Harris and Spencer Papa, who won the NCAA Doubles Championship, finished at No. 1 in the doubles rankings while Pepperdine’s Christine Maddox and Mayar Sherif Ahmed finished at No. 1 in the women’s doubles rankings. The NCAA Women’s Doubles Champs, Ohio State’s Francesca Di Lorenzo and Miho...
by Bobby Knight | May 25, 2017 | Blog
Just one day after winning the program’s third straight NCAA National Championship Athletic Director Craig Littlepage named former UVA associate head coach Andres Pedroso as the Cavaliers’ new men’s head coach and director of tennis. Pedroso, who served under the departing Brian Boland from 2010 to 2014, was a national coach for USTA Player Development prior to coming to Charlottesville and then after leaving in 2014 he began coaching privately in South Florida. Pedroso will also be responsible for hiring a new women’s coach to replace Mark Guilbeau who stepped down on May 5. Below are some quotes from Virginia’s release which is...
by Bobby Knight | May 5, 2017 | Blog
The ITA released its final team, singles, and doubles rankings of the regular season with the team rankings falling in line with what I projected earlier in the week. The men’s top five was Wake Forest, Virginia, Ohio State, USC, and UCLA while the women’s top five was Florida, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, and Georgia. The NCAA followed the rankings when doing seeding on the men’s side but as we found out on Tuesday they did not on the women’s side with North Carolina moving up to No. 2 while Texas Tech passed Stanford for No. 6. In the men’s singles rankings the only change in the top 10 was Illinois...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2017 | Blog
The ITA released its latest team, singles, and doubles rankings today with the Wake Forest men and Florida women remaining in the top spots though Florida’s gap narrowed a good bit after its loss to Vanderbilt. TCU and UCLA entered the top five on the men’s side after TCU beat Baylor and Texas while UCLA defeated USC. Baylor’s losses to TCU and Texas Tech knocked them down two spots to No. 6, USC fell one spot to No. 7, and Oklahoma State fell three spots to No. 8 after losing to Oklahoma. Purdue made the biggest jump in the top 50 by coming up 19 spots to No. 35 after the Boilers went on the road and beat both Minnesota and...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 18, 2017 | Blog
On Tuesday afternoon the NCAA announced the host sites for the 2019-2022 NCAA Championships with the National Tennis Center in Lake Nona the big winner. The new “Home of American Tennis” was awarded the 2019 and 2021 NCAA Division I Championships plus the 2022 NCAA Division III Championships. The full release from the USTA is available here. Oklahoma State University was awarded the 2020 NCAA D1 Championships, which will be the first time Stillwater has hosted, while the University of Illinois was chosen as host of the 2022 NCAA D1 Championships. Illinois previously hosted four years ago in 2013 when Virginia won its first national championship on...
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