by Bobby Knight | Dec 24, 2016 | Blog
Friday was a great day for Guillermo Nunez (TCU Jr) and Sadio Doumbia (Georgia ’12) as they each won pro doubles titles on opposite ends of the globe. Doumbia won his third career doubles title after he and Fabien Reboul defeated Soon Woo Kwon and Jea Moon Lee in the doubles final of the $10K Thailand F5 Futures in Hua Hin. Doumbia and Reboul earned the only break of the first set when they broke from 30/40 to go ahead 3-1 and they’d eventually take the set 6-3. The second set followed a similar pattern with Doumbia and Reboul breaking from 30/40 to go up 2-1 and they’d make that break advantage hold up to win it 6-3,...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 23, 2016 | Blog
Virginia senior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski moved into the doubles final and singles semifinals after picking up straight set wins in both of his Thursday’s matches at the $10K Mayaguez, Puerto Rico F1 Futures. Kwiatkowski started off the day with a sound 6-1, 6-3 win over Kalamazoo Boys 18 runner-up Vasil Kirkov. Kwiatkowski won 32 of 37 (.865) points on serve and 29 of 56 (.518) on Kirkov’s serve while breaking the 17 year-old four times. Following a brief break Kwiatkowski and Quinton Vega, who spent a few years at Wisconsin, defeated the Lock Brothers. Ben and Courtney, 6-4, 6-2. Kwiatkowski will now face recent UNC Tar Heel Brayden Schnur in the...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 21, 2016 | Blog
This is supposed to be the tennis off-season but there are several players with college ties that are playing in one of the few Futures taking place this week down in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 10 of the 16 players in the singles second round and 10 of the 16 doubles quarterfinalists have college ties including 2004 Rutgers graduate and New York NBC Sports Anchor Harry Cicma. Cicma lost in the opening round of qualies in the singles draw but he and Evan King cruised in their opening round doubles match.Puerto Rico F1 – Second Round [1] Evan King (Michigan ’13) vs. Quinton Vega (Wisconsin ’12*)[3] Ben Lock (Florida State ’16) vs. Roy...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 19, 2016 | Blog
While most of us are spending the holiday season closer to home guys like Evan King are still out on the road trying to earn some extra points to better position themselves up for next year. The 2013 Michigan graduate has spent the last three weeks in the Dominican Republic and after a singles and doubles runner-up showing two weeks ago he was able to get the sweep this week. King won his fourth doubles title of the year, 17th career, when he and Alexios Halebian defeated Nebojsa Peric and Ilija Vucic 6-4, 6-4 at the Dominican Republic F3 Futures in Santo Domingo Este. King’s doubles ranking should climb just inside the top 300 when these 18 points are...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
This past week I went down to Naples to attend the ITA Coaches Convention which was definitely a nice change of scenery for me since the colder winter temperatures have finally hit the St. Louis area. The ITA always has a knowledgeable group of speakers lined up with each having a different speciality so as a visitor it was nice to hear what everyone else had to say. Unlike the past few years there were no talk of scoring changes, since no-ad is here to stay, but there was discussion about the NCAA Championship format along with the some changes on player conduct. It seems to be all but a forgone conclusion that effective in 2019 the NCAA Championships...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 12, 2016 | Blog
Brayden Schnur finished off the last US pro event of the year with a three-set win over Virginia senior JC Aragone in the finals of the $25K USA F40 Futures in Tallahassee, Florida. Aragone, who was playing in his first career pro final, broke Schnur at love to go ahead 5-3 in the first set but Schnur broke back from 30/40 and went on to win the final four games of the set. In the second set Aragone fought off a pair of break points on his 2-2 service game and then he broke Schnur at love to make it 4-2. Aragone would hold two more times to take the second set 6-3. Schnur started off the third set by holding in a one-deuce game and then he broke in a...
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