by Bobby Knight | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
The finals are set at the 60th Southern California Intercollegiate Championships and it’ll be an All-USC final between two guys that may anchor the singles lineup this coming season. USC senior Nick Crystal earned his spot in the finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over UCLA sophomore Max Cressy while USC freshman Brandon Holt defeated his junior teammate Thibault Forget 6-3, 7-5. Holt and Crystal were the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds respectively with sophomore Logan Smith the top seed although he got knocked out in second round by Cressy. USC sophomore Jake DeVine saw his first action since last April (torn arm ligaments) and despite a first round loss he won a few...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
The fall college tennis season is coming around the final turn and starting to make its way toward the finish line. The past two weekends have been loaded up with the ITA Regional Championships and the Oracle ITA Masters and while there isn’t a major tournament this weekend there are several good ones to follow. USC is hosting the 60th Southern California Intercollegiate Championships with a strong field that will be able to experiment with PlaySight’s PlayFair Challenge System (this will be the first college tournament to use it). Live streaming of the event is available here and you can view all the draws, seeds, and scores at the...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
The field for the 2016 National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City was revealed on Wednesday evening and for the most part everything went according to plan. All of the ITA Regional Championship winners are participating, which hasn’t always been the case in the past, and the USTA Singles Wild Cards went to the highest ranked healthy American that wasn’t already in line for an at-large selection. The reason I said healthy is because Florida’s Brooke Austin was actually the highest ranked American but since she is injured Cal’s Maegan Manasse got the bid.UCLA’s...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
The 2016 Division 1 ITA Regional Championships came to a close today with three more women sweeping singles and doubles titles. All said and done four women won both singles and doubles titles while just one man pulled off the same feat (see list at bottom of this post). CTT Fall HubITA Regional Host Site Northwest (Stanford) – Singles/Doubles Draws – Cal junior Karla Popovic snapped Stanford’s six-year stranglehold on the ITA Northwest Region Singles Championship with a straight set win over Stanford freshman Emma Higuchi. Popovic broke Higuchi early and often and was in control of the match from start to finish. Popovic raced out...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
Sweeps were the story of the day at several ITA Women’s Regional Championships across the country. Baylor, Pepperdine, and Kentucky each won singles and doubles titles at their respective regionals plus Michigan is going to sweep the Midwest Regional after winning the doubles title today and having an All-Wolverine singles final tomorrow.Stanford and Cal will both have players participating in tomorrow’s singles and doubles final in the Southwest Regional while Syracuse has a chance to sweep the Northeast. CTT Fall HubITA Regional Host Site Northwest (Stanford) – Singles/Doubles Draws – Streaming $ via FloTennis –...
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