by Bobby Knight | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog
Most of the best tennis is usually reserved for the weekend but there was a barnburner on Wednesday afternoon in Austin between No. 8 Texas and No. 2 Ohio State. Ohio State’s Martin Joyce and Hugo Di Feo cruised to a quick 6-0 win at No. 2 doubles and then about 10 minutes later Ohio State’s No. 1 team of Mikael Torpegaard and Herkko Pollanen would break Texas on the no-ad point for 5-4 and then serve it out for 6-4. The match at No. 3 was abandoned at 5-5. Ohio State would take four of six first sets in singles but none of the matches would finish in straight sets. Ohio State managed to put the next two points on the board with wins from...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog
For the second down in a row the Bay Area delivered some high quality but on Saturday the big winners were the visitors from the Lone Star State. TCU came into the weekend ranked just outside the top 30 with a 5-4 record but they’ll head to Santa Barbara three games over .500 after coming back from a 3-0 deficit to defeat No. 41 Stanford 4-3. TCU made a doubles lineup adjustment by dropping an ailing Reese Stalder from No. 1 to No. 3 and moving Cameron Norrie up from No. 3 to No. 1 in an attempt to find a way to sweep the top two courts. On Friday night against Cal, Stalder teamed with Jerry Lopez to defeat the top ranked doubles team of Filip Bergevi...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 11, 2017 | Blog
WOW – what a tremendous day of college tennis action! The day got started early with No. 2 Wake Forest hosting No. 5 North Carolina and it finished 10 hours later with No. 31 TCU pulling off an upset win over No. 6 Cal. Both of the matches in Orlando were tremendous with No. 36 Florida State and No. 15 Florida playing in front of a College MatchDay record-crowd and then at the same time on the other six courts you had Tulsa and Central Florida go down to the wire. I’ll start off with the biggest upset of the day, in terms of ranking, which took place in Palo Alto between a resurgent No. 41 Stanford and No. 8 Texas. The Cardinal was coming off...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 5, 2017 | Blog
Wake Forest and Texas had played a lot of close matches over the past three years (four 4-3 matches) but on Saturday afternoon in Austin there wouldn’t be any suspense as the third ranked Demon Deacons would run over the eighth ranked Longhorns 4-0. The ITA top ranked doubles team of Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim jumped out to an early 3-0 lead at No. 1 and they’d make the break lead hold up and take it 6-3. Texas’s Harrison Scott and Julian Zlobinsky jumped out an early 2-0 lead at No. 2 against Borna Gojo and Alan Gadjiev but the Wake duo would break back on the no-ad point to make it 2-1. After a Wake hold for 2-2, Texas held on...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 19, 2017 | Blog
The second day of the 2017 Men’s ITA National Team Indoor Championships brought us two thrilling main draw matches and two that were over shortly after they started. All four semifinalists were top five seeds with three hailing from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the fourth comes from the Big Ten.We’ll start off with one of the two thrillers as the No. 4 seed California took on the No. 5 seed North Carolina. At last year’s NTIs, North Carolina made a habit of winning matches after dropping the doubles point and it seems like that tradition has continued this year. Cal jumped out to early break leads on all three courts with Andre Goransson...
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