by Bobby Knight | Jul 10, 2015 | Blog
Several guys with college ties are playing in the Pan Am Games this week in Toronto. 1st round action got underway today with Brayden Schnur (UNC Rising Jr), Yannik James (Denver Rising Jr), Roberto Cid (South Florida Rising Sr), Gonzales Austin (Vanderbilt ’15), Diego Galeano (Baylor ’15), Wilfredo Gonzalez (Miami ’15), Jean-Yves Aubone (Florida State ’10), and incoming LSU recruit Julian Saborio all winning their opening round matches. Gonzalo Escobar (Texas Tech ’12), Emilio Gomez (USC ’13), Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13), and Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa ’11) each got 1st round byes. For full draws...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 5, 2015 | Blog
Another nice week on the tour with 4 former college guys picking up Futures titles and 4 coming up just short by losing in the finals. Below are the guys that made it to at least the semis last week and further down below are all the results from this past week.Marek Michalicka (Wisconsin ’11) picked up Futures title #10 with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Maximilian Neuchrist in the finals of the Czech Republic F5. It was Michalicka’s 2nd title in 4 finals appearances this year.Tucker Vorster (Ole Miss ’11) improved to 3-1 in Futures finals this year after knocking off Evan King (Michigan ’13) 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in the finals of the Zimbabwe F3....
by Bobby Knight | Jun 27, 2015 | Blog
University of Kentucky athletes not only did extremely well in the NBA draft this week they also performed exceptional well on the tennis court with Tom Jomby (’14) winning a Future in Spain, Alex Musialek (’12) winning a Future in France, Eric Quigley (’12) making the semis in Canada, Trey Yates (Soph) winning the Atlanta City Open and thus getting a wild card into qualies at the ATP 250 in Atlanta, and Jesse Witten (’05) winning US Open National Playoff Southern Sectional and thus getting a chance to compete for a qualifying wild card at the US Open. It was pro singles title #1 for Jomby after he defeated #369 Roberto...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 27, 2015 | Blog
Wisconsin announced that former graduate Danny Westerman was returning to Madison to take over the vacant head coaching job. Westerman had spent the last 9 years in Denver as head coach and had done a tremendous job with the Pioneers. Full release hereHere is my updated D1 Men’s Head Coaching Carousel – if you know of others that needed to be added let me know. The ITA announced the 2015 Collegiate All-Star Team – full release here:The majority of the field was announced for the inaugural Oracle/ITA Masters which will be held from September 18-20 in Malibu, California at the Malibu Racquet Club. There are a few wild...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 25, 2015 | Blog
The 2006 Georgia Bulldogs seemed like they were a team that was destined to give Manny Diaz his 3rd NCAA Championship and the schools 5th after they spent virtually the entire season ranked #1. The experienced team started 3 seniors, 2 juniors, and a sophomore and 1 of the juniors was none other than big John Isner. Isner won the ITA All Americans in the fall by defeating Baylor’s Lars Poerschke 7-6, 7-6 in the final. Georgia’s eventual #6 singles player, Strahinja Bobusic, picked up 3 top 35 wins in the fall including a win over #2 Ludovic Walter of Duke.Luis Flores was the lone sophomore and he started off the year playing at #1 singles....
by Bobby Knight | Jun 21, 2015 | Blog
Another great week for former college players as both Evan King (Michigan ’13) and Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) each won their first professional singles title. Thompson didn’t drop a set or get broke all week in route to winning his title in Manzanillo, Mexico while King only dropped 1 set in route to his title Harare, Zimbabwe.Kevin Anderson (Illinois ’07) made his 2nd career final in an ATP 500 event (lost to Dimitrov 7-6(5) in 3rd in Acapulco in February 2014) but came up just short against #3 Andy Murray.Adrien Puget (UCLA ’14) made his second final of the year (won Spain Future in April) before falling 6-4, 7-6 to Zhizhen...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 20, 2015 | Blog
Here are some of the college tennis news stories from the past week:Tommy Paul, who was a Georgia commit, decided to sign with Nike and turn pro as was announced by Colette Lewis at ZooTennis. I was hoping Paul would end up at Georgia but with his recent results (2 Futures Titles & French Open Jr Title) and the Nike deal you can’t blame him for choosing the route he did. Only time will tell if the decision turns out to a be a wise one.Georgia lost and gained an assistant coach in the last week. Will Glenn stepped down last Friday after 10 years as the assistant coach but today it was announced that former Georgia All-American Bo Hodge was...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog
After seeing that Connor Smith was up to 200 in the latest ATP rankings that got me thinking about how Ohio State didn’t win a national championship the year he played at #6 singles or for that matter the year he played at #3. Then I started thinking about some of the other teams that were seemingly loaded but came up short when it mattered the most. So I decided to go back through the last 10 years and pick out those teams the many considered favorites and replay the moment where their season came to an end.I’ll start off with the 2004-05 season and this is a pretty obvious one. The Matt Knoll coached Baylor Bears were the defending...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 14, 2015 | Blog
There was 1 former college player that picked up a title this week with Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11) winning the $15K Charlottesville, Virginia Future with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Ernesto Escobedo. It was Sandgren’s 9th career pro title (8 Futures and 1 Challenger) Roberto Cid (South Florida Sr) made it to the finals of the $10K Bursa, Turkey Future before falling 7-5, 6-3 to #253 Yannick Jankovits.Alex Sarkissian (Pepperdine ’14) made it to the finals of the $10K Hong Kong Future before retiring down 4-1 in the 1st to #213 Ti Chen. In the College on Tour tab I added the point totals and prize money that the guys are playing for each...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 14, 2015 | Blog
I saw this a few weeks ago but didn’t actually get around to reading what it was all about until just a few days ago. The award goes to the student-athlete with the highest GPA from all those who participated in the NCAA Championships and who had participated on the team for at least 2 years.The video below the Drake release is an interview with Salibasic conducted by the legendary Dave “Koz” Kozlowski. Near the end it mentions that Salibasic will be heading to graduate school at Princeton and he’ll also be a graduate assistant coach with the tennis team. Salibasic Adds Another NCAA Elite 89 Award To His ResumeCourtesy:...
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