by Bobby Knight | Jan 7, 2017 | Blog
Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) was the big winner on Friday at the $25K USC/Los Angeles USA F1 Futures. The 6’4″ German started off the day playing a fellow 6’4″ German in former Pepperdine Wave Sebastian Fanselow. The opening set stayed on serve through the first five games until Fanselow broke Hanfmann at love to go ahead 4-2. Fanselow would hold for 5-2 and then break in a one-deuce game to claim the opening set 6-2. Hanfmann struck first in the second set when he broke for a 3-2 lead and then two games later he broke again to go up 5-2. A love hold would give Hanfmann a 6-2 set to send it to a winner take all third set.Hanfmann...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog
The first official women’s team rankings were released late Wednesday afternoon with Florida coming in at No. 1 after finishing last year at No. 3. The Gators return five of six singles starters from a squad that won the SEC last year before stumbling in the NCAA Round of 16 to eventual champion Stanford. Speaking of Stanford they come in at No. 4 with four singles starters returning after the depatures of Carol Zhao (turned pro after junior year) and Krista Hardebeck (graduated). North Carolina checks in at No. 2 despite losing half of their starting lineup however the Tar Heels did add highly touted freshmen Sara Daavettila, Alexa Graham, and Makenna...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog
There were a lot of close battles on Thursday at the $25K USC/Los Angeles USA F1 Futures with all eight second round matches played between players with collegiate ties and a few played between players from the same school. Virginia freshman Carl Soderlund held off Virginia senior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski in a match that’ll probably be repeated in practice for weeks and months to come. The match started off with back-to-back holds and was then followed by six consecutive breaks before Soderlund held for 5-4. After another pair of holds Soderlund broke from 30/40 to close out the set 7-5. The server did much better in the second set with only one break in the...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
The first official team rankings of the year were released late Wednesday afternoon with Virginia coming in at No. 1 as anticipated. In the past, all team rankings have listed the top 75 but this year the D1 Operating Committee voted to just make it a top 25 and it will remain that way until the first computer rankings begin after the National Team Indoors in February. Virginia remains at the top while the defending ACC Champion Wake Forest Demon Deacons move up to No. 2. Ohio State, which added JJ Wolf to the roster on Thursday, came in at No. 3 and Texas shoots up to No. 4. If comparing these to last season’s final rankings the biggest...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 4, 2017 | Blog
It looked like Virginia was playing a dual-match today at USC as five guys played in the singles main draw with four of them on court at the same time. UVA senior JC Aragone was the first off the court after holding off ATP #515 Markos Kalovelonis. Aragone broke from 30/40 to go up 5-4 in the third and then he served it out from 40/15 to take it 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. UVA junior Collin Altamirano pulled off the biggest upset of the day when he beat the top seed ATP #282 Tommy Paul 4-6, 6-0, 6-3. Altamirano was in control of his serve all day winning 50 of 68 points (.735) while he had an amazing 22 break point opportunities converting three in the second set and...
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