by Bobby Knight | Jan 4, 2017 | Blog
I got caught up working on my men’s preseason top 25 so I wanted to circle back around and go over some tournament results from this past weekend. Princeton commit Ryan Seggerman won the USTA National Winter Championships in Scottsdale after only dropping one set in seven matches. Seggerman defeated Jenson Brooksby 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 in the semifinals and Robert Maciag 7-5, 7-5 in the finals. Liberty commit Sebastian Mermersky made it to the semifinals before falling to Maciag while Virginia commit Matthew Lord, Notre Dame commit Richard Ciamarra, and Indiana freshman Bennett Crame made it to the quarterfinals. Lord and Vanderbilt...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 3, 2017 | Blog
The start of the 2017 dual-match season is just a few weeks away so it’s time to look ahead to see what’s in store for the next five months. I listed the returning singles starters, returning depth players (didn’t list all just ones I think will have a chance to play), key departures, and additions. I’m sure they’ll be some January roster additions that haven’t been announced yet so these rankings are based off what is known to this point. The UTRs used for the freshmen are from January 1st. 2017 Men’s Preseason Top 25 (final ’16 ranking in parentheseis) 1. University of Virginia (1) – The...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog
With the ball set to drop later tonight I thought it was a perfect time to look back at 2016 and highlight some of the biggest moments of the year. There were five teams that qualified for the National Team Indoors for the first-time in school history and both of the eventual champions ended up being first-time winners. North Carolina won the Men’s National Team Indoor Championship in Charlottesville by defeating the host Virginia Cavaliers in a 4-2 thriller. Virginia came into the match riding a 140-match ACC winning streak and had beaten North Carolina 15 straight times but despite winning the doubles point and taking four first sets North...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog
The USTA National Winter Championships in Scottsdale are down to the quarterfinals after 13 of the 16 matches in the boys and girls draws finished in straight sets. Virginia commit Matthew Lord is still alive in both the singles and doubles draws as are Trey Hilderbrand and Chelsea Kung with both of the latter still uncommitted. The ones with no year listed are committed for next year. Full draws are available here.Boys Round of 16 (Friday)(17) Trey Hilderbrand (13.15/Uncom ’18) def. (17) Carson Haskins (12.86/Uncom ’18) 6-4, 6-4(6) Ryan Seggerman (13.09/Princeton) def. (9) Ivan Thamma (13.31/UC Davis) 6-4, 6-2(16) Jenson Brooksby...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog
The USTA National Winter Championships in Scottsdale (AZ) are loaded with the college stars of tomorrow with many still trying to figure out where they’ll sign in the coming months. Below are Thursday’s singles results and Friday’s matchups. The ones with no year listed are committed for next year. It’s interesting to note that most of the boys playing are committed to a college while next to none of the girls are committed. Both of the top seeds got bounced with Illinois commit Alexander Brown (13.75) falling to Carson Haskins (12.87) while 2018 Duke commit Hannah Zhao (11.48) lost to Mary Profit (10.24). Full draws are...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 24, 2016 | Blog
Virginia senior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski got an early Christmas present on Saturday when he won his first career pro singles title at the $10K Mayaguez, Puerto Rico F1 Futures with a straight set win over 22 year-old American Alexios Halebian. Kwiatkowski broke Halebian four times in a 33-minute first set which Thai-Son took 6-1. After the second set began with nine consecutive holds, Kwiatkowski broke Halebian at love to close out the match 6-1, 6-4 in 1 hour and 23 minutes. Kwiatkowski won 30 of 40 (.75) points on serve and 33 of 62 (.53) points on Halebian’s serve. Kwiatkowski entered the week with an ATP ranking of 675 and when these 18...
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