by Bobby Knight | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog
The World University Games wrapped up on Monday in Taiwan with several U.S. college players bringing home medals. Jason Jung, who was born in Torrance (Calif) and played at Michigan from 2007 to 2011, won the gold medal in singles after not dropping a set during the whole competition. Jung was representing Chinese Taipei and even though he graduated from Michigan in 2011 he was eligible since is enrolled at a university in Taiwan.Mississippi State rising junior Nuno Borges won the bronze medal in men’s singles after making it to the semifinals before falling to Jung 6-3, 6-3. Borges defeated current U.S. collegians Jackie Tang (Columbia) and Yuya Ito...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 28, 2017 | Blog
The World University Games in Taiwan are nearing its conclusion with the doubles gold medal match taking place late Sunday/early Monday while singles wraps up tomorrow. Great Britain’s Jack Findel-Hawkins (North Florida ’17) and Luke Johnson (Clemson ’16) will play in the doubles gold medal match against Russia’s Richard Muzaev and Aslan Karatsev with the match scheduled for no sooner than 2:30 a.m. eastern. Mississippi State junior Nuno Borges will meet the top seed Jason Jung (Michigan ’11) in the singles semifinal with first serve scheduled for roughly 11:30 p.m eastern on Sunday night.UCLA’s Logan Staggs and Jada Hart...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 24, 2017 | Blog
The opening round of qualifying at the US Open wrapped up on Wednesday with the guys with college ties going 12-14 while the girls went 5-5. UCLA and USC were the only schools to put more than one player through to the men’s second round while on the women’s side Stanford was the only school to do the same. Those that played college tennis last season went 2-4 with Cameron Norrie and JC Aragone picking up wins while JJ Wolf, William Blumberg, Francesca Di Lorenzo, and Ashley Lahey came up short. Second round matches will be played on Thursday with live scoring available here. US Open Men’s Qualies – First RoundGleb Sakharov...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 22, 2017 | Blog
It’ll be a busy week for many current and former collegians as they try to qualify for the 2017 US Open. There are 26 players with college ties in the men’s qualifying draw with two first round matches pitting one against another. There are 10 players with college ties in the women’s draw with the only college versus college match coming when Francesca Di Lorenzo faces Nicole Gibbs. To see all the first round matchups scroll down and to see the order of play for Tuesday click here and to track the live scoring click here. The World University Games are underway in Taiwan with plenty of representation from college tennis players...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog
A few guys that played in college in the US played over in Korea in the World University Games. Below are the singles results with full draws for both singles and doubles further down.The big highlight was the doubles team of Joe Salisbury (Memphis ’14) and Darren Walsh (SMU ’11) winning the doubles title by defeating the #1 seed Hsin-Han Lee and Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 2-6, 6-3, 1-0 (8)1st RoundRaphael Hemmeler (SUI-Duke ’15) def. Roman Trkulja (CAN-Penn State Sr) 6-3, 6-3Julio Cesar Vasquez (MEX) def. Austin Rapp (USC-UCLA Soph) 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(3)2nd RoundHyeon Chung (KOR) def. Raphael Hemmeler (SUI-Duke ’15) 6-4, 6-0Martin Redlicki...
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