by Bobby Knight | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
What a match it was!! Virginia holds off Ohio State 4-1 – more to come later…..box score down below. #1 Virginia 4, #3 Ohio State 1Feb 20, 2017 at Charlottesville, VA (The Boar’s Head Sports Club)Singles competition1. #2 Mikael Torpegaard (OSU 15.21) def. Collin Altamirano (UVA 14.33) 6-3, 7-6(3)2. #28 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA 14.87) def. #8 Hugo Di Feo (OSU 14.02) 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-23. JJ Wolf (OSU 14.43) vs. Carl Soderlund (UVA 14.61) 3-6, 7-6(3), 5-3*4. #64 JC Aragone (UVA 14.43) def. #47 Herkko Pollanen (OSU 13.96) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4)5. #77 Martin Joyce (OSU 13.63) vs. Alex Ritschard (UVA 14.53) 3-6, 7-5, 6-5*...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
The finals are set at the 2017 Men’s ITA National Team Indoor Championships and it’ll be the host and top seed Virginia going up against the third seed Ohio State. The opening match of the day between Ohio State and the second seed Wake Forest was just plain wild. There were so many swings back and forth and just when you thought one team was going to pull it out the other came swooping in. Ohio State came into the match with a perfect 12-0 record during the doubles point but Wake Forest was set on giving them their first L. Ohio State’s No. 2 team of Martin Joyce and Hugo Di Feo came out with guns blazin’ as they broke Alan...
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...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 18, 2017 | Blog
The opening day of the 2017 Men’s National Team Indoor Championships is in the books and it was an action packed day that saw one exciting dual-match after another. Each of the four time slots had at least one close match and the 3:30 time slot had two close ones. The top two seeds, Virginia and Wake Forest, faced the least resistance while the No. 3 seed Ohio State faced some resistance but managed to close out enough courts before Oklahoma could get on the board. The UCLA/USC match was the only one to finish with a 4-3 score while four matches finished 4-2.There were two seeded upsets on the day with the biggest one coming in the morning session when...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
Virginia got a last minute warmup for the National Team Indoors by welcoming in No. 17 Illinois for a somewhat rare mid-week match in Charlottesville. Virginia claimed a quick 6-2 win from Luca Corinteli and Carl Soderlund at No. 1 doubles and it looked like Illinois would get a quick win at No. 3 when Zeke Clark and Gui Gomes led 5-2* but Virginia’s Collin Altamirano and JC Aragone came roaring back to win 7-6(4). The match at No. 2 doubles was halted just as the tiebreak was ready to get started. In singles play, Virginia went up early breaks at No. 2, No. 4, and No. 5 while Illinois went up early breaks at No. 1 and No. 3. Virginia senior...
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