by Bobby Knight | Apr 11, 2015 | Blog
Friday was a great day of tennis so hopefully these 4 matches below can bring us just as much enjoyment. TCU has already beat Texas A&M once and that was on the road – can they win this one at home? Does Georgia wrap up a share of the SEC regular season title and the #1 seed in next week’s SEC Tournament or does Ole Miss make a strong push for the top 10? Stanford has already beat both Cal and UCLA this year – could they possibly also beat USC today? Does UCLA regroup from the Stanford loss and beat an improving Cal? We’ll have our answers in a few hours.#7 Texas A&M (18-3) at #10 TCU (18-6) – 2pm est/1pm cst –...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 11, 2015 | Blog
The match between #1 Oklahoma and #2 Baylor had a ton of hype coming in and boy did those 2 teams deliver a classic. A huge crowd of just under 1500 was on hand in Waco along with many more following along at home via the Baylor blog and live scoreboard.The first surprise of the day came when the doubles lineups were announced. According to Kim Gorum, who was running Baylor’s terrific blog, Baylor’s doubles lineups were challenged earlier in the week by the opposing coaches in the Big 12. The coaches didn’t like the fact that Baylor’s #1 team had a record of 5-4 while it’s #2 and #3 teams were a combined 26-3. The challenge...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog
Get your dinner done early because there’s some big time tennis tonight in Waco as #2 Baylor hosts #1 Oklahoma. Baylor will have a blog running in addition to providing live scoring and streaming video so if you’re around a computer check it out. All the scoring, video, blog, twitter links are done below at the bottom of this post. #1 Oklahoma (20-1) at #2 Baylor (17-3) – 7pm est – Oklahoma has already beat Baylor twice this year, once indoors in Chicago and once outdoors in California (box scores below), so you’d think it’d be tough to beat them again. Since the 2nd meeting Oklahoma has played and beat #10...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog
North Carolina won the big match of the day as they knocked off cross town rival #6 Duke 4-2. The Tar Heels started off by taking the doubles point as its #3 team of Esben Hess-Olesen and Andrew Gores provided the clincher winning 8-5. The senior duo had never played an official doubles match before today but were thrown together after fellow senior Oystein Steiro had to sit out with an injury. Duke quickly tied the match at 1 with Chris Mengel picking up a win when Esben Hess-Olesen was retired with an injury when trailing 5-2 in the 1st. Just a few minutes later UNC would retake the lead when Robert Kelly laid out TJ Pura 6-0, 6-1 at #6...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog
Pretty decent schedule of matches for a Thursday with Duke making the 10 mile trip to Chapel Hill to face North Carolina plus at least 2 of the matches in the SEC should be competitive. I have the live scoring links below so follow along when they get underway. #6 Duke (19-3) at #16 North Carolina (16-8) – 3pm est – Live Scoring – North Carolina leads the overall series by a wide margin (89-38) but Duke has won 4 of the last 5 so for North Carolina’s sake it’s a good thing that Brayden Schnur came back last week. The Tar Heels went 4-3 in Schnur’s absense but upon his return they were able to beat...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 8, 2015 | Blog
It’s hump day so that means it’s time to look ahead at what’s coming up over the next 4 days. As you can see there are going to be more than a few good matches coming up and in fact Duke and UNC will jump start the weekend tomorrow afternoon. For a full list of all the matches you can look in my live scoring links page.The HUGE match of the week takes place in Waco on Friday night when #2 Baylor hosts #1 Oklahoma. Oklahoma has already beat Baylor twice this season – once indoors in Chicago at the National Indoors and once outdoors in Indian Wells at the BNP Paribas Collegiate Challenge. There’s a very good chance...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 8, 2015 | Blog
Oklahoma stays at #1 in the ITA Men’s rankings for the 6th week in a row and for the 7th time in the last 8 weeks. The top 8 in the Women’s rankings stay the same with USC, North Carolina, Cal, UCLA, and Georgia holding down the top 5.Below I’ll breakdown the Top 10 on the men’s side looking at the 8 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 8 win and that is because I used the new ranking so that you can see what changes will be made next week. I also listed the...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog
The top 4 stays the same this week with Oklahoma, Baylor, Illinois, and Virginia at 1, 2, 3, and 4 though the separation between the 4 changed a good bit. Oklahoma’s lead over #2 Baylor dropped slightly from 8.5 points to 7 points though it’ll likely change more this week when these 2 Big 12 heavyweights meet on Friday in Waco. Last week #2 Baylor and #3 Illinois were separated by just .17 points but the gap opened up significantly this week to 6.57 – I alluded to the change in the Illinois section of my Top 10 breakdown last week. The gap between #3 Illinois and #4 Virginia shrunk from 9.46 to 4.88...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog
Both Virginia and Texas A&M faced tough opposition on Sunday but both answered the bell and came out on top. Virginia won the doubles point and then took all 6 opening sets and managed to finish the top 3 out in straights as Mitchell Frank, Ryan Shane, and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski all won. Virginia played singles without one of its top 3 players as Collin Altamirano sat out due to a stomach bug.Virginia Tech did show some fight down low but Virginia still managed to win 2 of those 3 with all going 3 sets. Virginia recap”I was pleased with the overall performance today,” said head coach Brian Boland. “Virginia Tech showed why they...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 5, 2015 | Blog
Sunday brings us 2 Top 20 showdowns with Virginia hosting Virginia Tech while Florida hosts Texas A&M. Below are the breakdowns of those 2 matches along with a schedule of play for the day. #13 Virginia Tech (15-2) at #4 Virginia (15-3) – 1pm est – This will be the first time these two have ever met when both have been ranked inside the top 15. Virginia puts its 131 match ACC winning streak on the line as well as its 11 match winning streak against Virginia Tech. The doubles point will be huge for VT because I don’t see anyway they come close without taking that point. Virginia Tech is 10-7 in doubles while Virginia is...
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