by Bobby Knight | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog
The higher seeds continued to win on Tuesday with 14 of the day’s 16 winners being the higher ranked of the two competitors. [29] Alafia Ayeni pulled off a seeding upset over [16] Alexander Brown 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 but Ayeni was the higher rated player in just about every other category (TRN Class Ranking, UTR, ITF Jr, ATP) coming into the match. The other seeding upset came when [26] Timothy Sah ousted [13] Richard Ciamarra 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. Both of these two were pretty evenly matched with a just a .15 UTR difference so this was a toss-up going in.Alafia Ayeni 4th Round: [1] Michael Mmoh (Pro) def. [18] Keegan Smith (’17) 6-2, 6-2 [10] Oliver...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog
Seeded players had a great day on Monday with 24 of 25 seeds moving on to the fourth round with the 15th seed William Genesen the only seeded loser. 24 of the 32 third round matches finished in straight sets with many winning rather convincingly. Full results from Monday are available here and on my spreadsheet under the 3rd round tab and below are the number of games that the winners dropped.Game Dropped: 0 – [14] Austin Huang 1 – [1] Michael Mmoh, [3] JJ Wolf 2 – [6] Zeke Clark, [8] Trent Bryde, [30] Patrick Kypson3 – [5] Gianni Ross, [16] Alexander Brown 4 – [2] John McNally, [18] Keegan Smith, [20] Sebastian Korda, [29]...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog
Pro Titles/Finals Last Week:Singles: China (CH) – Jason Jung (Michigan) Canada – Jennifer Brady (UCLA) USA – Roberto Quiroz (USC) USA – Caitlin Whoriskey (Tennessee) Italy – Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (North Carolina)Doubles: Italy (CH) – James Cerretani (Brown) USA – Jared Hiltzik (Illinois)/Rhyne Williams (Tennessee) Italy – Catalin-Ionut Gard (Ole Miss)/Ruben Gonzales (Illinois) Finland – Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State)/Herkko Pollanen (Ohio State) Germany – Andreas Mies (Auburn) Latvia – Ewan Moore (Tulane commit) Morocco – Sander Gille (East Tennessee State)Runner-Ups:Singles: USA (ATP)...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog
After spending the day in Kalamazoo yesterday I made my way down to Decatur, Illinois, today to watch the finals of the Ursula Beck Pro Tennis Classic/USA F26 Futures. I was hoping to catch the second and possibly third sets of the doubles final but Jared Hiltzik and Rhyne Williams weren’t very accommodating and finished off Nathan Pasha and Dane Webb 6-0, 6-1 in just 43 minutes. It was Hiltzik’s second career pro doubles title and Williams’s seventh though it was Rhyne’s first since 2013. The singles final matched up 2015 USC graduate Roberto Quiroz and 19 year-old Australian Marc Polmans. Quiroz was looking for his third singles title...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog
All the top seeds took the court today in Kalamazoo for the second round of the Boys 18 National Championships and for the most part they had very little trouble. Each of the top 22 seeds won with 19 of them winning in straight sets however 6 of the bottom 10 were knocked out. Below were the seeded losers with college commitments listed in parenthesis. Seeded Upsets Aleksandar Kovacevic (Illinois) def. [23] Matthew Lord 6-7(3), 6-0, 6-2 John Carlin def. [24] Ryan Seggerman 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 Robert Krill (Wisconsin) def. [25] Jason Lui (Columbia) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 Kristopher Ortega (Illinois) def. [28] Maxwell Freeman 6-4, 6-1 Payton Holden (Princeton) def. [31]...
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