by Bobby Knight | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
Over the next 2 weeks regional championships will be held in every ITA region with the champion of each advancing to next month’s National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship which will held at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.Below is the list of regionals that are taking place this week with the others being played the following week. The ITA’s page below also has the same list and they should have draws added in as well. I’ll add them in too as they become available.Atlantic (Blacksburg, VA) – Oct 15-19Singles Seeds:1. Andreas Bjerrehus (VT)2. Amerigo Contini (VT)3. Jaan Kononov (UMBC)4. Joao...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
A few months back the NCAA Division 1 Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee had its annual meeting to discuss different topics/items for the upcoming season. The information is available to the general public on ncaa.org but it can be tough to find so I figured I’d share the report here and talk about some of the interesting things that they discussed.Below are the conferences whose champions are guaranteed a bid into the 64-team NCAA Tournament. The Southland (Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Lamar, New Orleans, Nicholls St, Abilene Christian, Incarnate Word) was granted a waiver to get a bid despite only having 4 eligible teams last...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
Virginia’s Thai-Son Kwiatkowski is the 2015 Saint Francis Health System ITA Men’s All-American Singles Champion after routing Tulane’s Dominik Koepfer 6-0, 6-2 in the finals in a match that took around 55 minutes to complete. Kwiatkowski was in control from start to finish by working Koepfer from side-to-side and more points than not ended with a Koepfer miss with many coming off the forehand wing. Kwiatkowski played great defense but also hit some huge forehands to finish off several games.3 of Koepfer’s 7 service games went to the deciding 40-40 point and he lost all 3. Koepfer struggled at the net and lost 3 different games on a...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
After a few close matches on Saturday, Sunday brought a pair of straight sets wins with little suspense as Virginia’s Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Tulane’s Dominik Koepfer each rolled into the finals.Thai-Son Kwiatkowski actually fell behind Stanford’s Tom Fawcett 2-0 in the opening set but then he reeled off 5 straight games to go up 5-2. After a Fawcett hold, Kwiatkowski would serve out the set and then go up an immediate break in the second set to put Fawcett on his heels. Kwiatkowski wouldn’t let up and would close out the 6-3, 6-2 win in just over an hour. Dominik Koepfer would book his spot to the finals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 11, 2015 | Blog
Saturday was a busy day for the guys in Tulsa with both the Round of 16 and Quarterfinals held within hours of each other but by the time the dust cleared we had our final 4 and they all happen to be top 16 seeds. The 8 morning matches saw 6 finish in straight sets with Tom Fawcett, Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, Hugo Di Feo, Dominik Koepfer, Uros Petronijevic, and Andre Goransson each winning somewhat comfortably. Both Ronnie Schneider and Konrad Zieba needed 3 sets in their Round of 16 matches though both cruised in the 3rd set taking the final set by 6-2 scores. The one thing that was a little strange was the fact that Ronnie Schneider and Shane Vinsant...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 10, 2015 | Blog
The courts at the Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina will be packed this weekend as coed teams from 48 schools across the country compete in the 6th annual USTA Tennis on Campus Fall Invitational. The University of Florida is going for 3 in a row at the Fall Invitational and they opened up their defense of the title with 3 wins yesterday including a 24-16 win over Ohio State in the Round of 16. The event utilizes the same scoring format as World Team Tennis.Below is the list of the schools participating and you can follow the event at TOC’s event page. Here is Friday’s recap and here are some more FAQ...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
Rain pushed play indoors on Day 2 of the main draw in Tulsa but that didn’t hurt Auburn’s Marko Krickovic as the qualifer knocked off the #1 seed Quentin Monaghan (Notre Dame) 1-6, 7-5, 7-5. Monaghan cruised to a 6-1 opening set but Krickovic turned it around in the 2nd set and went up 5-2. Krickovic got broke serving for the set up 5-2 and 5-4 but then he broke Monaghan to go up 6-5 and finally got a service hold to take the set 7-5. The 3rd set stayed on serve until Krickovic broke for a 4-3 lead and then he consolidated the break with a hold for 5-3. Monaghan would come back from 0-40 down on his serve to hold for 5-4 and then he’d...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
Today was the beginning of the main draw at the All-Americans in Tulsa but things didn’t exactly go as planned. Play was supposed to begin at 9am central but due to an issue with the draw the ITA had to redo it which meant that play was pushed back by 3 hours until 12pm central. The issue was that all 16 qualifiers were set to face a top 16 seed which isn’t the way it’s supposed to be done so after the draw was restructured we had 31 new match-ups with only the Nicolas Alvarez/Joao Monteiro pairing staying the same.Once play begin there was 1 top 8 seed to get upset with #5 Romain Bogaerts of Wake Forest going down to...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
After 5 days of qualifying the field is now set for the main draw at this year’s ITA Men’s All-American Championships.Florida freshman Alfredo Perez pulled off the somewhat rare feat of going 7-0 over the last 5 days by coming from the pre-qualifying draw to the qualifying draw and now to the main draw. Ohio State’s Matt Mendez, who got into the qualifying draw as a lucky loser, almost joined Perez in the main draw but after rallying from 5-2 down in the 3rd to tie it at 5-5 he would drop the final 2 games and lose 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 to North Carolina’s Robert Kelly.Perez is joined by 2 other freshman in the main draw with...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog
There were 32 seeded players in the 128 man qualifying draw but only 11 are still alive as we head to the final day of qualifying at the All-American’s in Tulsa.There were 3 Top 10 seeds knocked out on Tuesday as San Diego’s Jordan Angus defeated the #1 seed, UCLA’s Martin Redlicki, 6-3, 6-4, Northwestern’s Konrad Zieba defeated the #8 seed, Cal’s Filip Bergevi, 7-6(7), 6-2, and Tulane’s Constantin Schmitz cruised past the #9 seed, Oklahoma State’s Arjun Kadhe, 6-4, 6-1.The 3 Top 10 seeds that made it to the final round of qualies are Memphis’s Andrew Watson (#2) who defeated UCLA’s Karue Sell 7-6(3), 6-4,...
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