by Bobby Knight | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog
The new ITA rankings came out on Wednesday with no change in the women’s rankings and only a few minor changes on the men’s side. As I mentioned in my post yesterday the only ranked women’s teams to play a dual-match so far have been Georgia Tech and South Carolina with both winning over the weekend. On the men’s side Cal and Georgia had been tied for fifth but now Cal is in sole position of fifth while Georgia fell back to sixth – I guess the national ranking committee wasn’t impressed with Georgia going 9-11 in singles over the weekend at the MLK Invitational. TCU and UCLA had been ranked seventh and eighth respectively...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
Several schools in the men’s top 25 knocked off the dust last week with most winning comfortably though some were pushed and even one was upset. The only ranked women’s teams to play last week were Georgia Tech and South Carolina. Let’s take a look to see who did what and what they’ve got coming up this week. The women’s recap is down below the men’s table. If viewing via mobile it’ll probably look better if you open up this google doc. Men’s Top 25RecordLast WeekThis WeekComment1Virginia0-0IdleIdleOpen season on 2/3 at Vanderbilt2Wake Forest2-0def. N Florida 5-2def. ETSU 6-1vs. Oklahoma (1/21)Beat two...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
Alabama missed out on last year’s NCAA Tournament by one spot so in the offseason men’s head coach George Husack overhauled the roster and brought in five newcomers. On Monday afternoon all five of those newcomers were in the lineup and played a pivotal roll in the Crimson Tide’s tight 4-2 win over East Tennessee State. The doubles point was decided in a tiebreak at No. 2 after ETSU’s Diego Nunez and Robert Herrera pulled off an upset at No. 1 and Alabama freshmen Thibault Cancel and Zhe Zhou won at No. 3. Alabama freshmen Alexey Nesterov and Edson Ortiz would pull out the tiebreak at No. 2 by a 7-2 score to give Alabama the early 1-0...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
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by Bobby Knight | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
Florida State welcomed in Florida Atlantic, South Alabama, Mercer, Troy, Florida A&M, and Georgia State for the FSU Invitational this weekend but the hosts couldn’t pull off the weekend sweep after Georgia State surprised them 4-2 in the championship match. FSU won the doubles point fairly comfortably with wins at No. 1 and No. 2 but Georgia State rebounded in singles taking four first sets. FSU’s Aziz Dougaz put the Seminoles in front 2-0 with a straight set win at No. 1 but Georgia State closed out each of the four matches where it won a first set with Jack MacFarlane clinching at No. 6 with a 6-2, 7-6(6) win over Terrell...
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