by Bobby Knight | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog
The National Indoor Intercollegiate selections were released today and while they were pretty straight forward there were a few last minute changes. In the men’s singles draw, Florida’s Diego Hidalgo got in as a 7th at-large due to North Carolina’s Ronnie Schneider pulling out. I know Ronnie has had shoulder issues in the past so that could be why he’s out.Georgia’s Austin Smith (14.41) got the at-large selection that was reserved for the player with the highest UTR.Duke’s Nicolas Alvarez, who was the Oracle Masters Runner-Up, got the ITA’s wild card and Illinois’s Jared Hiltzik was awarded the USTA’s wild...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog
USC senior Max De Vroome won the 59th annual Southern California Intercollegiate Championships by defeating UCLA senior Karue Sell 7-6(2), 4-6, 6-2 in the championship match which was held on the campus of UCLA at the LA Tennis Center. De Vroome was the #1 seed and Sell was the #3 seed.Congrats on a great tournament, Karue! #UCLA #gobruins @USTASoCal @USCollegeTennis pic.twitter.com/ddEcaCknfs UCLA Men’s Tennis (@uclatennis) November 1, 2015UC Santa Barbara’s Nathan Eshmade and Miles Seemann won the doubles draw with a 6-3, 6-3 win over USC’s Kalman Boyd and David Laser. Eshmade and Seemann beat the #2 seed...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog
We’re still 2 weeks out from the National Intercollegiate Indoors so between now and then there are a few fall tournaments taking place throughout the country.Louisville is hosting the Louisville Invitational this weekend with teams several teams from the Ohio Valley Region participating along with Marquette and Northwestern Ohio. The tournament format features three flights of singles and doubles and will be played both indoors and outdoors. Draws are below and here (updated with Saturday’s results). Louisville’s twitter will have score updates. A Singles Final: Gian Issa (MTSU 13.05) vs. Nils Ellefsen (KY 12.55)B...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog
The NCAA recently released its sports sponsorship and participation rates report and the numbers confirmed what we all knew – tennis, especially men’s tennis, is on the decline. The report tracks student-athlete participation by sport and gender dating back to the 1981-82 season and tracks teams dropped and added since 1988-89.Here is some of the highlights or should I say lowlights of the report:In 2014-15, the sport with the highest number of women’s teams dropped was tennis with nine, followed by golf and lacrosse. The women’s sports that have been dropped the most since 1988-89 are cross country and golf with 241 programs dropped...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
I wrote an article for ZooTennis talking about how to grow college tennis and what I think are the keys to making the sport sustainable for years to come. Make sure you give it a read and don’t hesitate to provide feedback over on Colette’s site or right here.Yesterday concluded the 2 weeks of USTA/ITA Regional play which determined the automatic qualifiers for the National Indoor Intercollegiates which will be held from November 12th through 15th at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. Click here for a full list of qualifiers along with my picks for the at-large and wild cards on the men’s side.Below...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 27, 2015 | Blog
Dartmouth’s Dovydas Sakinis was the #1 seed for a reason as he proved his worth today when he ran through Columbia freshman Victor Pham to win the Northeast Region singles title. Sakinis got the first break of the match when he broke Pham to go up 5-3 then followed that up with a hold from 40-15 to take the opening set 6-3. Sakinis went up an early break in the second set and then went up 3-1 after holding on the deciding point. Sakinis would break again to go up 5-2 and then the big lefty would close out the Championship after hitting a big serve out wide followed by a big forehand crosscourt winner to seal the 6-3, 6-2 win. Comments from...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog
Going into today semifinals many figured Ohio State would have 1 of its 2 guys make the finals but even the biggest of Buckeye fans wouldn’t have banked on 2 but that’s just what happened.Buckeye junior Herkko Pollanen (UTR 13.39) cruised to a 6-1 opening set against the #1 seed Quentin Monaghan (UTR 14.08) but the Notre Dame senior took the second set 6-4 after breaking Pollanen’s 4-5 service game. Pollanen went ahead for good in the third set after breaking Monaghan’s 2-2 service game and Herkko would break again to close out the match for the 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 win. Buckeye senior Chris Diaz (14.02) advanced to the finals after knocking...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 25, 2015 | Blog
It was a great day to be a Denver Pioneer in Albuquerque as Diogo Rocha took the singles championship over Utah’s Dan Little and Henry Craig and Alex Gasson took the doubles championship over New Mexico’s Hayden Sabatka and Bart Van Leijsen.Rocha didn’t have an easy road to the title as 4 of his 6 matches went 3-sets and he had to come back from 3-1 down in the 3rd set today against Little before pulling it out 6-4 in the 3rd. Utah had a nice recap of today’s match explaining the ebbs and flows – give it a read!Craig and Gasson cruised until today’s match but had to come back from a set down to win in a 3rd set supertiebreak...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 25, 2015 | Blog
In South Bend at the Midwest Regional, 6 of the top 8 seeds moved into the quarterfinals where they’ll be joined by Michigan’s Carter Lin (12.51) who beat not 1 but 2 top 11 seeds. Lin first upset the #11 seed Toledo’s Stjepan Sisko (13.30) 6-4, 6-4 then followed that up by beating the #7 seed Valpo’s Jeffrey Schorsch (13.59) 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. Ohio State has 3 in the quarters with Chris Diaz, Ralf Steinbach, and Herkko Pollanen all advancing and they had a 4th in contention before freshman Martin Joyce fell to Illinois’s Aron Hiltzik 6-3, 7-6 in the Round of 16. The host Irish have 2 still remaining in #1 Quentin Monaghan and...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog
In Albuquerque at the Mountain Regional, 4 of the top 10 seeds were knocked out in the first 2 days and then today 4 of the top 6 went down in the Round of 16 and Quarterfinals. Utah and Denver each have 2 guys in the semifinals with Dan Little sets to face Yannik James and Matt Cowley to meet Diogo Rocha.Seeded Upsets (w UTRs listed after school name – *means reliability <100%)Daniel Echeverry (Utah St/11.24*) def. [15] Freddie McGeehan (Utah/12.45) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4Mark Kovacs (Idaho/12.11) def. [5] Thomas Tenrerio (Boise St/12.94) 2-6, 6-0, 6-1[31] Keaton Cullimore (BYU/13.75*) def. [10] Toby Mitchell (Boise St/12.98) 6-3, 6-2[26] Matt Cowley...
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