by Bobby Knight | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog
TheITA Summer Circuitfinished up its fourth of six weeks with ten different sites hosting regionals. Below are the singles winners and you can view the doubles winners through each draw link. Here are the seriespoints racethrough the third week and once these week four results are added in Northwestern’s Jason Seidman will be in first place by one point after a regional for the third week in a row. Wake Forest commit Sean Hill also won his third regional in four weeks and finished as runner-up the other week.Alabama – Draw Size W-45 ; M-60M – Michael Durham (Auburn commit) d. [11] Jackson Wood (HS Class of ’17) 6-4, 6-1W – [1]...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog
New Mexico Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs announced the hiring of Ben Dunbar as New Mexico’s new men’s head coach. Dunbar, who played at New Mexico from 2008 to 2012, was an assistant coach at New Mexico for the last two seasons. Dunbar replaces Bart Scott who resigned last month after two years at the helm of the Lobos.Congrats to former player & asst. coach Ben Dunbar, who was named as head coach of New Mexico men’s tennis! #GoLoboshttps://t.co/y6oNgPEaG3— New Mexico Lobos (@UNMLOBOS) July 18, 2016I mentioned on Saturday that former Georgia graduate Wil Spencer decided to start playing again after retiring...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog
Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech ’16) capped off a weekend of firsts by winning pro singles title No. 1 with a straight set win over #608 Hugo Grenier at the $10K Idanha-A-Nova, Portugal, F8 Futures (Hard). Monteiro had break points on each of Grenier’s four first set service games and broke on two of them to take the opening set 6-3. Monteiro broke from 15/40 to go up 2-1 in the second set and then broke again at love to go up 5-2. Monteiro served out the match at love to take it 6-3, 6-2. Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State Rising Soph) won her second career pro singles title with a straight set win over Erin Routliffe (Alabama Rising Sr) at...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 17, 2016 | Blog
#500 Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) won his second singles title this year and fourth of his career with a straight set win over #357 Stefanos Tsitsipas at the $10K Kramsach, Austria, F2 Futures (Clay). Hanfmann broke Tsitsipas to start the match and made the break lead hold up to take the opening set 6-4. Hanfmann broke for 2-1 in the second and made that break hold up as well to close out the 6-4, 6-4 win in 1 hour and 8 minutes. Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech ’16) advanced to his first-career Futures final with a tough three-set win over #599 Frederico Gil in the semifinals of the $10K Idanha-A-Nova, Portugal,...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 16, 2016 | Blog
South Carolina men’s head coach Josh Goffi announced the hiring of Kyle Bailey as the Gamecocks new assistant coach. Bailey, who was the head coach at Monmouth last season, replaces Ryan Young who left two weeks ago to take the assistant job at Clemson.South Carolina women’s head coach Kevin Epley announced that Mia Horvit (UTR 11.32) has signed a National Letter of Intent to play at South Carolina next season. Horvit was ranked as high as No 5 in her high school class as a sophomore and junior per The Tennis Recruiting Network and was ranked No. 11 last season.Eudice Chong (Wesleyan Rising Jr) and Katherine Ip (Rice Rising Sr) won the doubles...
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