by Bobby Knight | Feb 20, 2016 | Blog
Sometimes rematches result in different outcomes and sometimes they don’t – tonight’s Ohio State/Texas A&M match in Columbus turned out to be the latter. These teams met just five days ago in the National Indoors consolation rounds with Ohio State pulling out a 4-3 squeaker but this evening it was all Buckeyes.Last week Texas A&M won the doubles point, though Herkko Pollanen didn’t play, but tonight with Pollanen playing at #1 with Mikael Torpegaard they and the team cruised past A&M.Ohio State swapped Martin Joyce and Ralf Steinbach at #5 and #6 and Hugo Di Feo and Chris Diaz at #2 and #3. Texas A&M swapped Jordi...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 13, 2016 | Blog
The second half of the day kicked off with USC playing South Florida on the stadium courts while TCU and Illinois duked it out on the back six.South Florida knew it needed the doubles point to give itself a chance to win and it took the point with a 6-0 rout at #3 and a 6-3 win at #2.Singles however was a different story as USC really jumped USF especially at the top of the lineup. USC’s Nick Crystal, Max de Vroome, Jake DeVine, Logan Smith, and Thibault Forget took first sets while USF’s only first set came from Peter Bertran at #5. Fortunately for South Florida, the Georgia transfer made quick work of USC’s Laruens Verboven by winning 6-2,...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog
The draws are out and the lineups are set for the 2016 ITA Men’s National Team Indoor Championships with play getting started on Friday at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. Play gets started each day at 9am eastern and finishes each night around 9 to 10pm.I’m going to preview each round of 16 match using the master lineups that each team submitted and I’ll make my predictions as well. With this being an indoor event I’ll also take into account which teams are comfortable playing indoors while others only play indoors a handful of times each season.There will be live scoring on all 12 courts but only...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
Some days things go your way and some days they don’t – for TCU, Oklahoma, and Stanford it was the latter while Cal, North Carolina, and Texas walked away with big smiles on its faces.Cal got punched in the gut when it couldn’t participate in the Kick-Off Weekend due to weather but they made up for it this weekend in spades with wins over #26 Texas and #2 TCU.Both Cal and TCU played physical matches on Saturday with each getting pushed by its opponents but while Cal bounced back TCU wasn’t able to keep up the Bears.TCU pulled out the doubles point for the second day in a row with wins at #2 and #3 but Cal got humming in singles and took...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 7, 2016 | Blog
#5 Oklahoma (3-1) at #7 North Carolina (5-0) – 1pm est – Live Scoring & Video – Oklahoma is coming off a 5-2 win at #63 Alabama on Friday while North Carolina last played a week ago when it shutout #12 Illinois 4-0. The Sooners really have missed the presence of its #2 Andrew Harris (14.76) who has been sidelined for a while with knee tendinitis and without him they’ve had to make adjustments to both the singles and doubles lineups. Axel Alvarez comes into this match having lost two straight and the team has dropped the doubles point in two straight matches. North Carolina has been battling some injuries as...
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