by Bobby Knight | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog
Summer time means a slew of college guys/gals hit the road to play in Pro Circuit events all across the world so I’ll start doing a weekly recap each Sunday of the top performers. Nick Chappell (TCU ’15) was playing in his first career singles final at the Kiryat Shmona, Israel, F9 Futures but he came up short falling to #638 Edan Leshem 6-3, 6-3. Leshem broke Chappell from 30/40 to go up 3-1 in the first and then held three more times to take the opening set 6-3. Leshem broke Chappell to go up 2-1 in the second on a three-deuce game but Chappell broke back from 15/40 to even it at 2-2. Leshem broke on a one-deuce game to go up 4-3 and then...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog
The final singles rankings were released on Wednesday with NCAA singles champion Danielle Collins finishing the year at No. 1.Cal, Florida, and Ohio State each had five ranked singles players while NCAA Champion Stanford was one of six teams that had four ranked players. There were ten teams that had three ranked players including national runner-up Oklahoma State.There were more juniors ranked in the top 125 than any other class. It was interesting to see 22 freshmen in the top 125 while the guys only had 13 freshmen ranked.I’ll do a comparison of the ITA rankings versus Universal Tennis Ratings in the coming days.Teams with at least 4 ranked...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog
The final singles rankings were released on Wednesday with NCAA singles champion Mackenzie McDonald finishing the year at No. 1.The NCAA Champion Virginia Cavaliers had all six singles starters ranked in the top 125 while no other team had more than four. There were nine teams that had four ranked starters with another five that had three ranked. I’ll do a comparison of the ITA rankings versus Universal Tennis Ratings in the coming days.Teams with at least 4 ranked playersVirginia (1)#7 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Jr)#15 Ryan Shane (Sr)#34 Collin Altamirano (Soph)#84 Alexander Ritschard (Soph)#110 J.C. Aragone (Jr)#116 Henrik Wiersholm (Soph)UCLA (2)#1...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog
I expect this list will start to fill up as we get closer to August. If you know of guys/gals that are transferring send me an email bobbyk@collegetennistoday.com and if you’ve seen it in print put a link as well. I prefer to put only confirmed transfers but if its rumored I could probably make a notation saying its just rumored.To view the google doc on its own page click here
by Bobby Knight | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog
The national champion Stanford Cardinal made the jump from No. 15 all the way up to No. 1 after defeating Oklahoma State 4-3 to win the NCAA Championship. Oklahoma State moved up four spots from No. 12 to No. 8 but anyone who saw them play would say without a doubt they were a top 5 team.Cal stayed at No. 2 after a semifinal appearance while Florida, who was No. 1, dropped to No. 3 after losing in the Round of 16 to Stanford. North Carolina fell one spot to No. 4 and Vanderbilt came up one spot to No. 5.There were several teams that made big jumps or falls with Baylor coming up eight spots to No. 32, Rice coming up seven spots to No. 41, and TCU coming up six...
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