by Bobby Knight | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog
Play gets started on Thursday in New York City with 8 of the top American current and recent collegiate men and women playing for a potential main draw wild card into next year’s US Open. Per the release below “The men’s and women’s champions will receive main-draw wild cards into the 2016 US Open if either is ranked No. 120 or better by the US Open entry deadline next summer. If they do not meet that ranking requirement, the winners will receive qualifying wild cards. The champions will also get wild cards into two USTA Pro Circuit events, while each finalist will earn one wild card.”Here is the preview on the US...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 6, 2015 | Blog
It was another strong week for the former college guys on Tour as Nik Scholtz and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan each claimed Futures singles titles.Scholtz (Ole Miss ’15) won his 5th career Futures title after defeating Javier Pulgar-Garcia 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 in the finals of the Gabon F2. It was Scholtz’s 1st title this year after winning 3 a year ago.Nedunchezhiyan (Washington ’11) won his 7th career Futures title after defeating Prajnesh Gunneswaran 7-6(8), 6-4 in finals of the India F12. All 7 of Nedunchezhiyan’s singles titles have come in his native India.Below are the results of those guys that made it to the finals and below that are...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog
Several schools will kick off their fall seasons a week from Friday with tournaments lined up all over the country. This PDF shows a calendar of all ITA sanctioned tournaments and some of the men’s tournaments that may have some bigger names entered are listed down below. As the host schools post information about these tournaments I’ll do my best to update my fall tournament page that I’ll create in a little bit.The selections for the Men’s All Americans in Tulsa should be made no later than September 11th – there is a large pre-qualifying field that plays for spots in qualifying.Don’t forget that the year’s...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog
Great week for our favorite former college guys as Kevin Anderson, Eric Johnson, Tucker Vorster, and Gonzalo Escobar each won a singles title on the Tour.Kevin Anderson (Illinois ’07) won his 3rd ATP singles title with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Winston-Salem Open. Anderson wins $83000 and picks up 250 ATP points.Gonzalo Escobar (Texas Tech ’12) won his 5th career Futures singles title with a 7-6(4), 6-0 win over Fritz Wolmarans at the Winnipeg, Canada F7. It was Escobar’s 1st title this year and 1st career title outside of his native Ecuador.Tucker Vorster (Ole Miss ’11) won his 5th career Futures singles title...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 29, 2015 | Blog
13 guys with college ties entered the US Open qualies but only 1 came through and that was 2011 Tennessee grad John-Patrick (JP) Smith who won all 3 of his matches in straight sets. Smith will join 7 former collegians in the 1st round of the Open which gets underway on Monday; 2015 NCAA Singles Champion Ryan Shane is the lone current college player to make the main draw. See below for qualie results and round 1 match-ups.2015 NCAA Women’s Doubles Champions Maya Jansen and Erin Routliffe of Alabama qualified for the doubles main draw after winning the US Open National Playoffs in New Haven. Typically the NCAA champions get a main draw wild card but since...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog
We’re just under a month away from the first big event of the year in college tennis which is the brand new Oracle ITA Masters in Malibu, CA. Part of the field was announced a few months back but the rest was made known yesterday with the full list below. Below are the anticipated preseason rankings of the men’s singles participants:#1 Axel Alvarez (Oklahoma)#2 Ryan Shane (Virginia)#4 Julian Lenz (Baylor)#5 Quentin Monaghan (Notre Dame)#6 Andrew Harris (Oklahoma)#7 Nicolas Alvarez (Duke)#10 Dominik Koepfer (Tulane)#11 Romain Bogaerts (Wake Forest)#12 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois)#14 Ronnie Schneider (North Carolina)#15 Cameron Norrie (TCU)#16 Wayne...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 24, 2015 | Blog
This past week was the first time in a while that we didn’t have a guy with college ties win a singles title on the Pro Tour. Now that school is back in session at most colleges and universities they’ll definitely be less guys playing pro events each week but hopefully the guys will pick it back up this weekend.There were 2 guys that played for titles with JP Smith and Dragos Dima coming up short.Smith (Tennessee ’11) only dropped 1 set in route to his spot in the finals of the Vancouver $100K Challenger but he came up short 6-4, 7-5 against Dudi Sela. Smith came into the match having won 5 previous titles (2 Challenger/3 Futures)...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 20, 2015 | Blog
The US Open National Playoff gets started on Friday and will finish on Monday. 32 sectional winners/runner-ups (16 men/16 women) from across the county will meet in New Haven, CT and the winners of each draw will get a wild card into qualifying at this year’s US Open.Updates scores in the google doc below as well on the men’s & women’s tournament home page.Men’s Singles DrawWomen’s Singles DrawThe google doc has the draw broken down by UTR. Mixed Doubles Draw & Tournament PageMen’s Doubles Draw & Tournament PageWomen’s Doubles Draw & Tournament Page
by Bobby Knight | Aug 17, 2015 | Blog
Another week and another 2 singles titles as both Kevin King and Yannick Hanfmann won Futures titles on Sunday.Kevin King (Georgia Tech ’12) won his 3rd career professional singles title with an impressive 6-3, 6-1 win over #655 Richard Gabb in the finals of the Champaign, Illinois F25 Future. King went 9-1 over the last 2 weeks in central Illinois with the loss coming in the finals to former ITF Junior #1 Luke Saville. King’s 2 previous titles came last year in back-to-back week in Mexico.Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) won his 2nd career professional singles title with a 6-2, 6-2 win over #295 Gavin Van Peperzeel in the finals of the Friedberg,...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 13, 2015 | Blog
I figured it was only a matter of time before the NCAA Championships went along with what was being pushed and as you can read below they have agreed to use no-ad scoring effective with this year’s NCAAs in Tulsa. DI Competition Oversight Committee approves No-Ad scoring format changes for tennis championships starting in 2016. pic.twitter.com/DFC1LgIzMB NCAA (@NCAA) August 12, 2015The release below mentions that the recommendation to go no-ad was approved “with the health and well-being of student-athletes, the overall championship experience and fan engagement at the forefront” but I think we all know that the sole driving force...
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