by Bobby Knight | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
For most of the evening Steve Johnson looked down and out but the 2011 and 2012 NCAA Singles Champion showed some grit and rallied from two sets down to win in five over Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy. Johnson had rocked Donskoy 6-1, 6-1 just a few weeks ago at the Rio Olympics so to see him down 4-6, 1-6, 2-5 (0-40) was surprising to say the least. Johnson fought off four match points in his 2-5 service game, broke from 30/40 to put the match back on serve, and then fought off two more match points on his 5-6 service game before rolling in the tiebreak. Johnson broke midway through the fourth set and then early in the fifth set before pulling out the 4-6, 1-6,...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog
The field for this year’s Oracle/ITA Masters was announced today with 28 of 31 conferences sending a representative for the October 13-16 event in Malibu, California. The full selection criteria is here but in essence the top returning player from each conference was given the opportunity to participate with some accepting and others opting out. There was originally only supposed to be one wild card in each draw but there ended up being four due to the A10, Sun Belt, and SWAC not having a men’s representative while the Atlantic Sun, Horizon, and Mountain West didn’t have one on the women’s side.Several of the higher ranked Big Ten guys...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 28, 2016 | Blog
#471 Petr Michnev (Hawaii-Pacific ’14) won his second singles title this year, and third of his career, with a come from behind win over #542 Corentin Denolly in the finals of the $10K Austria F7 Futures in Poertschach. Denolly broke Michnev in a two-deuce after trailing 40/0 to go ahead 3-2 in the first and then only dropped two more points on serve in route to taking the set 6-4. Michnev broke Denolly in a one-deuce game to go ahead 3-1 in the second and then he broke him again in a four-deuce game to take the set 6-2. Denolly went ahead 4-2 in the third set after breaking from 15/40 and then holding from 40/15 but it was all Michnev in the next four...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 28, 2016 | Blog
It was a good day for former Michigan stars Evan King (’13) and Emina Bektas (’15) as the Wolverine duo won the US Open National Playoff Mixed Doubles Draw with a 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 (8) win over Sanaz Marand (North Carolina ’11) and Malcolm Harrison (NW Missouri St ’12). The win earned King and Bektas a main draw wild card into next week’s US Open which will be the first main draw Grand Slam match for each.Congrats to @eminabektas and @EvanKingChicago for earning a mixed dubs wild card into @usopen!! #gobluepic.twitter.com/a4yzPTTLC1— Michigan Tennis (@umichtennis) August 27, 2016 #631 Joran Vliegen (East Carolina ’14)...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 27, 2016 | Blog
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