by Bobby Knight | Mar 15, 2015 | Blog
Saturday was a great day for college tennis with the 2 biggest matches of the day broadcasted on TV with The Longhorn Network showing Texas/Illinois while the Pac 12 Network showed USC/UCLA. The only thing that kind of stunk a bit was the fact that the 2 matches were being played simultaneously so while I did switch back and forth a bit I primarily stayed with the Texas/Illinois match because of how close it was throughout. When the starting lineups were posted 30 minutes before the start of the Texas/Illinois match I had to do a double take because I didn’t see Farris Gosea’s name anywhere. I was hoping the guys on the Longhorn Network would...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 14, 2015 | Blog
They’ll be 3 really good ones on Saturday with LA, Chicago, and Austin the places to be. What’s so great is that 2 of these 3 will be on TV with the Pac 12 Network carrying the singles portion of the USC/UCLA match and with the Longhorn Network carrying the Illinois/Texas match in its entirety.It’ll be interesting to see if USC can snap out of its recent funk or if UCLA can ride the comeback of Gage Brymer to an upset win. It’ll be interesting to see how Illinois looks after a 2 week layoff and whether they’ll switch up 1 and 2 singles in an attempt to sweep the top 2 spots. It will also will be interesting to...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
This morning I got a chance to watch the Fox Sports Oklahoma telecast of Tuesday’s Oklahoma/Virginia match and I must say I was impressed with the production of the match and the quality of the announcing. The version I watched was taped and edited but they did a good job bouncing around from court to court. They started the telecast a few games into singles and started showing the match at #1 singles but they also showed several games of the Alvarez/Shane match at #2 singles. After those 2 matches finished up they showed the last 3 games of the Webb/Kwiatkowski match and then showed the last several games of the Bragusi/Aragone match....
by Bobby Knight | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog
It seemed like the story of the day wasn’t who was playing; it was who wasn’t playing as several big names were missing from their respective team’s starting lineups. The big rematch between Baylor and Virginia didn’t come close to matching the level of play that we saw the first time around. Virginia was without 2 of it’s starters with neither Thai-Son Kwiatkowski or Alexander Ritschard playing. Below is a quote from Virginia’s recap that talks about the absence of the 2 players: “We have two losses this year and both have come at the hands of Baylor,” said head coach Brian Boland. “They...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 1, 2015 | Blog
A surprise to start the day as Virginia has shaken up its lineup, I’m guessing due to illness, with neither the ITA #1 Thai Son Kwiatkowski or UVA’s #5 Alexander Ritschard are listed in singles. The seldom used Jonathan Cornish is playing doubles for the first time this year at #3 along with Mac Styslinger. Both Styslinger and Henrik Wiersholm are listed in the singles lineup at 4 and 6. #5 Baylor 5, #11 Virginia 2 – FINALDoubles:1. #55 Ryan Shane/Luca Corinteli (UVA) def. #56 Mate Zsiga/Tony Lupieri (BU) 6-32. Julian Lenz/Diego Galeano (BU) def. Mitchell Frank/Collin Altamirano (UVA) 6-33. Vince Schneider/Felipe Rios...
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