by Bobby Knight | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog
It looks like the 13-time NCAA Division II Championship tennis teams at Armstrong State University in Savannah, Georgia, are on borrowed time after news of yesterday’s merger with nearby Georgia Southern University. The merger, which is expected to take 18 months to complete, will combined the two schools with the Georgia Southern name being retained while the Armstrong State name and history will most likely fall by the wayside. This article from WTOC.com in Savannah says current athletic scholarships will be honored however the ability for many of those student-athletes to compete will probably have to come somewhere else. This current season...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 11, 2017 | Blog
Duke finished it’s stay at the Rainbow Warrior Classic by taking four of six doubles matches over LSU plus the Blue Devils came out on top in four of seven singles matches with two of the losses due to retirement. Ole Miss and Hawaii played an actual dual match with the Rebels posting a 7-0 shutout. Ole Miss won five of six singles matches in straight sets and swept all three doubles courts.USC freshmen Brandon Holt and Riley Smith each earned their first career ATP points with first round wins at the Long Beach USA F2 Futures. Holt defeated Luke Bambridge (ATP 615) 6-1, 6-4 in a match where Holt won 77% of the points on his first serve while...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog
Ole Miss got the better of Duke in doubles at the Rainbow Warrior Classic but the two split six singles matches with Ole Miss winning at the top three slots while Duke took the bottom three. LSU and Hawaii also played on Tuesday with LSU winning five of eight doubles matches and all seven singles matches however Hawaii did force a third set in three of them. Wendesday will be the final day of competition with Ole Miss playing Hawaii while Duke plays LSU.. 2017 Rainbow Warrior InvitationalJan. 9-11 at Honolulu, Hawaii (UH Tennis Complex)Round 1 Dubs:1. Catalin Mateas/Vincent Lin (DUKE) def. Fabian Fallert/Grey Hamilton (OM) 6-12. Gustav Hansson/Tim...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog
Ole Miss and LSU kicked off their respective spring seasons in warm and sunny Hawaii at the Rainbow Warrior Invitational. Ole Miss swept LSU in doubles with four of the six matches finishing with either a 7-5 or 7-6 score. Singles was a different story with LSU taking four of seven against Ole Miss plus Julian Saborio played a second match against Hawaii and won that one as well. Each school slotted their players in order of strength. Duke and Hawaii played as well with Duke winning six of eight doubles matches and seven of eight singles. Duke and Ole Miss will play on Tuesday while LSU and Hawaii do the same. Wendesday will be the final day with Ole Miss...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 8, 2017 | Blog
Mackenzie McDonald may have left school after his junior year at UCLA but the 2016 NCAA singles champion felt right at home on a college campus as he won his second career pro singles title with a straight set win over Virginia freshman Carl Soderlund at the $25K USC/LA USA F1 Futures. Soderlund came into the match having won 8 of 9 sets this week and it looked like he’d make it 9 of 10 after the Stockholm, Sweden, native opened up an early 4-1 lead. Soderlund held fairly comfortably in each of his first three service games while also breaking McDonald’s second service game at love courtesy of two double faults. McDonald held from 40/15 to...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 7, 2017 | Blog
Virginia first year Carl Soderlund still hasn’t played an official collegiate match but the 19-year old from Sweden has already defeated several of college’s elite this week at the $25K USC/Los Angeles USA F1 Futures. Soderlund met Evan King (Michigan ’13) on Saturday afternoon in a match that started four hours later than scheduled due to a morning downpour. Soderlund started off the match with a hold and then after three consecutive breaks he would hold again for a 4-1 first set lead. After another set of holds, King rallied to even it at 5-5 with a hold, break, and yet another hold. King had a break point to go up 6-5 but Soderlund...
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