by Bobby Knight | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog
12 conference tournaments are in progress on the men’s side with the quarterfinals taking place today in many of them. If you haven’t checked it out yet take a look at my Conference Tournament Central page which has details on all the conference tournaments plus live scoring links (if available). The tab is at the top of my blog as well. I also have a page just for the SEC Tournament which shows all the results, schedules, universal tennis ratings of the players, and the results from the regular season meeting.Some storylines to follow for today:#12 Wake Forest at #37 Notre Dame – Wake’s the better team but Notre Dame could give...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog
UCLA got off to a good start by going up early breaks on all 3 doubles courts and would cruise to wins at 2 and 3. Singles would be a different story because USC’s Eric Johnson, Roberto Quiroz, Max De Vroome, and Nick Crystal would take the opening set at 2, 3, 5, and 6 and then those 4 would pretty much run away with the 2nd sets to close out a 4-2 win. UCLA’s Mackenzie McDonald picked up the only singles point for the Bruins as he took it to #12 Yannick Hanfmann 6-3, 6-3.This match was supposed to be shown on TV on the Pac 12 network but the USC/UCLA women’s match ran 90 minutes long and with the singles portion of this one only...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog
The last several years this has been the biggest match of the season but this year these LA neighbors have taken a back seat to the big time tennis that’s been taking place in the state of Texas. USC and UCLA have an uncharacteristic 11 losses between them and both struggled last week in Northern California against Stanford and Cal. Usually when these two play at the end of the season the #1 seed in the Pac 12 Tournament is at stake however Stanford has already locked that up so the winner of this takes the #2 seed and the loser falls to #3.The Pac 12 Network will televise the singles portion starting at 6pm eastern/3pm pacific so tune in to hear...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog
What was expected to be a pretty close match turned into a fairly routine victory for #2 Baylor as they pushed past #10 Texas 4-1. Packed house at Caswell Tennis Center pic.twitter.com/4BNR8zOssW Texas Tennis (@TexasMTN) April 15, 2015 Baylor started things off by taking the doubles point with wins at #2 and #3 despite having Tony Lupieri and Max Tchoutakian playing together for the first time at #3. Lupieri’s normal doubles partner Mate Zsiga did not play doubles but did play singles. Baylor’s Diego Galeano was also serving for the match at #1 doubles when the point was clinched.When the singles lineups were first put it out they showed Nick...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog
Another big match tonight in the Big 12 though technically they’re all big matches since all 6 teams are ranked inside the top 30. I think the doubles point will play a big role in deciding the winner because I’m looking for many of the Texas seniors to rise to the occasion tonight on Senior Day.Baylor is running its blog for the match, even though it’s in Austin, so make sure you log on and contribute your comments to Kim Gorum. The BU blog always gives you some inside information that you wouldn’t find elsewhere so make sure follow from start to finish. Kim told us about the 2 overrules on the 2 match...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog
Oklahoma stays at #1 in the ITA Men’s rankings for the 7th week in a row and for the 8th time in the last 9 weeks. A little shake up in the women’s top 10 with North Carolina replacing USC as the new #1 with USC now #2. Florida up to #3, Cal #4, UCLA #5, Georgia #6, Texas A&M #7, Baylor #8, Vanderbilt #9, and Oklahoma State #10. Below I’ll breakdown the Top 10 on the men’s side looking at the 9 best wins that were used in the rankings this week along with other quality ranked wins that could potentially fit in down the road. You’ll notice some of the quality wins are ranked higher than a top 9 win and that is...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog
The top 4 stays the same this week though Oklahoma has extended its lead at #1 to almost 10 points after knocking off #2 Baylor last Friday. OU’s lead was 15 points but its stunning loss at Texas Tech dropped it down a full 5 points. Baylor is #2 though its lead over #3 Illinois went from 6 points to 5 with the loss to Oklahoma. Illinois stays at #3 with #4 Virginia a little over 4 points back. This week’s rankings use each team’s top 9 best wins as will each of the next 2 rankings which will take us all the way up through the announcement of the NCAA Tournament field on April 28th.Texas Tech and Stanford were the 2 big...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog
Just when we thought the weekend couldn’t get any crazier #23 Texas Tech pulled off a 4-3 stunning upset over seemingly unstoppable #1 Oklahoma. Texas Tech was just 7-9 in doubles coming in but they managed to take the point over Oklahoma by winning 6-3 at #3 doubles and 7-6(6) at #1. Oklahoma was 12-10 in doubles coming in but time and time again they overcame the early deficit to come back and win – not today. (TT’s live scoring & recap showed Nick Papac with Spencer Papa at #3 dubs but it was Florin Bragusi who partnered with Papa).Oklahoma would take the opening set at 1, 2, 4, and 6 singles while Texas Tech took the...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 12, 2015 | Blog
It’s been a great weekend of tennis so let’s see if North Carolina and Wake Forest can finish it off in style. #16 North Carolina (17-8) at #13 Wake Forest (15-6) – 2pm est – UNC is coming off a big 5-2 win over Duke while Wake Forest streamrolled Miami 7-0. UNC continues to be hampered by injuries with both Esben Hess-Olesen (13.48) and Oystein Steiro (13.47) likely to miss their final regular season match in the powder blue. If neither Hess-Olesen or Steiro can play doubles I’m not sure who UNC will put out though Brayden Schnur should be more than capable even though he hasn’t played doubles since returning...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 12, 2015 | Blog
I thought the big story of the day would be TCU thumping Texas A&M or Georgia blanking Ole Miss but Stanford stole their thunder as the Cardinal stunned #5 USC 4-3. Each of these 3 big matches all had monster crowds on hand with TCU drawing over 1700, Georgia had over 1800, and while I didn’t see an attendence figure from Stanford the pictures I saw showed the stands pretty full.#Cardinalpalooza upset watch? Winners of eight straight, Stanford leads No. 5 USC 1-0. Shocked No. 15 UCLA yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Orr0Iq9Rgd StanfordMTennis (@StanfordTennis) April 11, 2015 Stanford took the doubles point with quick wins at 2 and 3 but then USC got off to...
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