by Bobby Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog
The first thing I wanted to mention is that I wrote an article for the Tennis Recruiting Network that ran today with the topic being the Road to Tulsa. It talks about the teams that I think are contenders for the national championship along with the others that have some work to do so make sure you give it a read.After the release of the latest Oracle/ITA rankings, I wanted to do a comparison between those and the most recent Universal Tennis Ratings. Below is a chart of the top 25 men and women sorted by UTR and ITA rankings.Here are some men’s ranking notables:There are 6 men in both the ITA and UTR top 10Andrew Harris at No. 2 in the UTR chart...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 29, 2015 | Blog
13 guys with college ties entered the US Open qualies but only 1 came through and that was 2011 Tennessee grad John-Patrick (JP) Smith who won all 3 of his matches in straight sets. Smith will join 7 former collegians in the 1st round of the Open which gets underway on Monday; 2015 NCAA Singles Champion Ryan Shane is the lone current college player to make the main draw. See below for qualie results and round 1 match-ups.2015 NCAA Women’s Doubles Champions Maya Jansen and Erin Routliffe of Alabama qualified for the doubles main draw after winning the US Open National Playoffs in New Haven. Typically the NCAA champions get a main draw wild card but since...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 10, 2015 | Blog
Several guys with college ties are playing in the Pan Am Games this week in Toronto. 1st round action got underway today with Brayden Schnur (UNC Rising Jr), Yannik James (Denver Rising Jr), Roberto Cid (South Florida Rising Sr), Gonzales Austin (Vanderbilt ’15), Diego Galeano (Baylor ’15), Wilfredo Gonzalez (Miami ’15), Jean-Yves Aubone (Florida State ’10), and incoming LSU recruit Julian Saborio all winning their opening round matches. Gonzalo Escobar (Texas Tech ’12), Emilio Gomez (USC ’13), Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13), and Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa ’11) each got 1st round byes. For full draws...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 27, 2015 | Blog
Wisconsin announced that former graduate Danny Westerman was returning to Madison to take over the vacant head coaching job. Westerman had spent the last 9 years in Denver as head coach and had done a tremendous job with the Pioneers. Full release hereHere is my updated D1 Men’s Head Coaching Carousel – if you know of others that needed to be added let me know. The ITA announced the 2015 Collegiate All-Star Team – full release here:The majority of the field was announced for the inaugural Oracle/ITA Masters which will be held from September 18-20 in Malibu, California at the Malibu Racquet Club. There are a few wild...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 20, 2015 | Blog
Here are some of the college tennis news stories from the past week:Tommy Paul, who was a Georgia commit, decided to sign with Nike and turn pro as was announced by Colette Lewis at ZooTennis. I was hoping Paul would end up at Georgia but with his recent results (2 Futures Titles & French Open Jr Title) and the Nike deal you can’t blame him for choosing the route he did. Only time will tell if the decision turns out to a be a wise one.Georgia lost and gained an assistant coach in the last week. Will Glenn stepped down last Friday after 10 years as the assistant coach but today it was announced that former Georgia All-American Bo Hodge was...
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