by Bobby Knight | May 25, 2019 | Blog
The third time was the charm for Nuno Borges after the Mississippi State senior advanced to the finals of the NCAA Men’s Singles Championship after a straight set win over TCU senior Alex Rybakov. Borges was playing in the NCAA Semifinals for the third year in a row but after losses the last two years he put it all together on Friday and became the first MSU men’s player to advance to the NCAA Singles Final. The opening set was back and forth with a total of five breaks of serve with the last coming when Borges broke Rybakov’s 5-6 service game after Rybakov had three set points at 40/15. In the second set, Rybakov broke Borges...
by Bobby Knight | May 24, 2019 | Blog
Despite a slew of early upsets the top two women’s seeds still remain in what will be an ACC-heavy semifinals while on the men’s side it’ll be an upperclassmen-laden semifinals with three of the top four seeds still alive. Women’s top seed Miami junior Estela Perez-Somarriba advanced to the semifinals for the second time in three years after a 6-4, 6-4 win over Illinois sophomore Asuka Kawai. Perez-Somarriba on how she felt her match today went, “I think it took me awhile to get used to her ball, especially the serve. Once I was able to figure that out, I think that I was more confident and trusting all of my...
by Bobby Knight | May 23, 2019 | Blog
The singles draws have reached the quarterfinal round with only two seeds remaining on the women’s side (top two seeds) while 5 of the top 8 men’s seeds remain though there was a big upset in the Round of 16.The big upset came when Florida freshman Sam Riffice came back from a set down to knock out on of the favorites No. 2 seed JJ Wolf (Ohio State) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Wolf entered the match with a 35-1 singles record (31 straight set wins) and had only dropped 7 sets all season but Riffice was able to get it going in the last two sets. Riffice on how he fought through after dropping the first set, “I had a lot of chances in the first set, I was...
by Bobby Knight | May 22, 2019 | Blog
The first two days of the individuals have been completed in Orlando with 11 of the top 16 women’s seeds going home early while 9 of the men’s top 16 advanced to the Round of 16 including 7 of the top 8.The opening round on Monday claimed 4 of the top 8 women’s seeds with No. 3 Kate Fahey (Michigan), No. 4 Ingrid Gamarra Martins (S Carolina), No. 5 Makenna Jones (UNC), and No. 8 Sophie Whittle (Gonzaga) are going down. The only men’s top 8 seed to lose in the first two round was Texas’s Christian Sigsgaard who fell on Monday to Texas A&M’s Juan Carlos Aguilar.I have the notable results from the first two rounds...
by Bobby Knight | May 20, 2019 | Blog
For the second year in a row, third time in the last four years, and 20th time overall the Stanford Cardinal are the NCAA Women’s National Champion after the No. 3 seed defeated No. 1 Georgia 4-0.The Cardinal finished the year on a 23-match winning streak and by defeating Georgia they avenged their only loss of the season which came in the semifinals of the National Team Indoors in Seattle. Stanford won the doubles point for the 23rd time in 29 matches after picking up wins at No. 2 and No. 3. The first match to finish came at No. 1 where Georgia’s Lourdes Carle and Katarina Jokic rolled to a 6-1 win over Kimberly Yee and Caroline Lampl...
by Bobby Knight | May 20, 2019 | Blog
For the first time in school history the Texas Longhorns are the NCAA Men’s National Champions after the No. 2 seed defeated the defending NCAA Champs Wake Forest 4-1.It was a wild year in Austin that saw longtime head coach Michael Center get dismissed after his involvement in the big admissions scandal and then a month later the program achieved a No. 1 national ranking for the first time in program history. The upperclassmen-laden roster stuck together during the tough times and despite a somewhat surprising loss in the Big XII Tournament to Baylor they hit their peak during the NCAA Tournament and ran over one tough opponent after...
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