by Bobby Knight | Mar 22, 2015 | Blog
Saturday had several close ones with both Baylor and Oklahoma pulling through in the BNP Paribas Collegiate Challenge while San Diego and Princeton both won tight ones in the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Spring Classic. There was also a good one in Nashville where Vanderbilt won a 3rd set tiebreak in the deciding match to avoid getting upset by unranked Kentucky. The headliner of the day was between #3 Baylor and #4 USC. It was almost a forgone conclusion that Baylor would take the doubles point with how dominant they’d been in doubles play but USC had the point well within grasp. Baylor’s #3 duo of Vince Schneider and Felipe...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 21, 2015 | Blog
Friday brought us several close ones as 6 matches finished with a 4-3 final score though of course there were several that weren’t as close most notably 3 of the 4 in Indian Wells. The big upset of the day came in Louisville as the #29 Cardinals stunned #10 North Carolina 5-2. It looked like #7 Texas A&M might get picked off too however the Aggies rallied late and held off #35 Mississippi State 4-1. #33 Drake came back from 3-0 down to stun #22 Harvard 4-3 and #23 LSU pulled out a tight 4-3 win on the road at #60 Alabama.In the biggest match of the day #12 Wake Forest ran its winning streak to 4 with a 5-2 win over #16 Virginia...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 20, 2015 | Blog
As the excitement of the NCAA Basketball Tournament sweeps the nation I’m sure we’ll see some excitement on the tennis courts this weekend as well. Wake Forest hosts Virginia Tech in a top 16 showdown, 6 top 30 teams will be in Indian Wells for the BNP Paribas Collegiate Challenge, and 7 top 50 teams are in San Diego for the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Classic. If you can’t make it out in person follow along with the live scoring/update links down below. It appears they have live streaming on 2 of the courts at Indian Wells – click here for those streams.#16 Virginia Tech (12-1) at #12 Wake Forest (11-4) – 4pm est...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 20, 2015 | Blog
Vanderbilt ran its record to 4-0 against teams from the state of Tennessee with an impressive 4-1 win over #40 Tennessee. The Vols took the doubles point but Vandy took 5 opening sets and ended up getting wins from Gonzales Austin, Danny Valent, Baker Newman, and Suresh Eswaran. FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of March 19th. For more details about UTR check out their website. #17 Vanderbilt 4, #40 Tennessee 1Singles1. #10 Gonzales Austin (VU 14.40) def. #14 Mikelis Libietis (UT 14.23) 6-4, 6-22. Hunter Reese (UT 13.28) vs. Rhys Johnson (VU 13.45) 5-7, 6-1, 2-3 unf.3. Danny...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
Friday will be a fairly light day of activity with just 8 teams in the Top 20 in action and with the only matchup between top 20 teams taking place in College Station as #9 Texas A&M hosts #11 Vanderbilt.Before I preview that one here are a few others to keep an eye on today:#31 San Diego (8-3) at #34 Texas Tech (12-4) – 1pm est – Live Scoring – San Diego is coming off a hard fought loss against USC and has wins on the year over South Carolina and South Florida while Texas Tech has only played 1 match in the last 3 weeks though has wins this year over Auburn and Mississippi State. #24 Florida State (10-4) at #19 Wake Forest (9-4)...
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