by Bobby Knight | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog
Typically Mondays only have 1 or 2 matches but there were a handful of decent ones on the slate today with Cal Poly going into Boise and winning, Memphis winning at South Alabama, and UCLA getting a slightly tougher than expected win over UNLV.UCLA won the battle of the abbreviations with a 6-1 win over UNLV. UCLA was a little shorthanded with 2 of its top 3 players out of the doubles lineup with Mackenzie McDonald (14.91) and Martin Redlicki both participating in a Futures event in Calabasas this week. After UCLA dropped the doubles point things were actually looking a little concerning but fortunately Redlicki was able to make it back in time to...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog
The gap at the top has widened as Oklahoma continues to add more and more top 10 wins. Oklahoma now has 10 wins over teams in the Top 14 – that’s a crazy figure and will likely keep OU at the top for a while. This week’s rankings use each team’s top 6 best wins and then next week it’ll go up to 7 and then every subsequent week after that they add 1 more best win to get up to 9 by April 14th.TCU will make the biggest jump within the top 20 as the Horned Frogs move up 8 spots from 18 to 10 after beating #2 Illinois on Monday and then defeating #48 Dartmouth on Saturday. San Diego makes the biggest jump in the top 40...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog
After struggling in doubles most of the year, Oklahoma came up big in the finals of the BNP Paribas Collegiate Cup and handed Baylor its first doubles loss of the year and ultimately its 3rd overall loss as the Sooners beat Baylor 4-2. The Oklahoma win was the second over Baylor in the last 5 weeks and they’ll meet up against in Waco on April 10th. Baylor’s #2 team of Julian Lenz and Diego Galeano won easily 6-2 but Oklahoma would win the other 2 courts 6-4 with Dane Webb and Axel Alvarez getting it done on 1 and Spencer Papa and Florin Bragusi winning on 3. It was the first win of the year for the Papa/Bragusi pairing and it...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 22, 2015 | Blog
Sunday brings us 3 matches between Top 15 teams with the headliner taking place in Indian Wells between #1 Oklahoma and #3 Baylor. The other 2 big ones are in Oxford where #13 Ole Miss hosts #15 Florida and in Durham where #6 Duke hosts #12 Wake Forest. It should also be mentioned that all 3 are rematches from earlier in the year with 2 playing each other during the Kickoff Weekend and the other meeting at the National Indoors. There’s a full schedule at the bottom of this post with scoring links as well.#1 Oklahoma (16-1) vs. #3 Baylor (14-2) – 1pm est/10am pst – This will be a rematch from the National Indoor Semifinals...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 22, 2015 | Blog
Saturday had several close ones with both Baylor and Oklahoma pulling through in the BNP Paribas Collegiate Challenge while San Diego and Princeton both won tight ones in the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Spring Classic. There was also a good one in Nashville where Vanderbilt won a 3rd set tiebreak in the deciding match to avoid getting upset by unranked Kentucky. The headliner of the day was between #3 Baylor and #4 USC. It was almost a forgone conclusion that Baylor would take the doubles point with how dominant they’d been in doubles play but USC had the point well within grasp. Baylor’s #3 duo of Vince Schneider and Felipe...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 21, 2015 | Blog
What a great day it’d be to be out in Indian Wells with 4 college matches going on highlighted by USC/Baylor plus you’ve got Djokovic/Murray and Federer/Raonic – high quality viewing. The Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Spring Classic wraps up today with San Diego and Drake meeting in the finals plus they’ll be a good 3rd place match between Ivy League powers Harvard and Princeton. Can Drake make it 3 wins in 3 days playing San Diego in the Toreros own backyard?TCU hosts a pair of lower ranked teams with both Dartmouth and UT Arlington coming in though of course it’s not that far for UT Arlington. Any chance TCU gets...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 21, 2015 | Blog
Friday brought us several close ones as 6 matches finished with a 4-3 final score though of course there were several that weren’t as close most notably 3 of the 4 in Indian Wells. The big upset of the day came in Louisville as the #29 Cardinals stunned #10 North Carolina 5-2. It looked like #7 Texas A&M might get picked off too however the Aggies rallied late and held off #35 Mississippi State 4-1. #33 Drake came back from 3-0 down to stun #22 Harvard 4-3 and #23 LSU pulled out a tight 4-3 win on the road at #60 Alabama.In the biggest match of the day #12 Wake Forest ran its winning streak to 4 with a 5-2 win over #16 Virginia...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 20, 2015 | Blog
As the excitement of the NCAA Basketball Tournament sweeps the nation I’m sure we’ll see some excitement on the tennis courts this weekend as well. Wake Forest hosts Virginia Tech in a top 16 showdown, 6 top 30 teams will be in Indian Wells for the BNP Paribas Collegiate Challenge, and 7 top 50 teams are in San Diego for the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Classic. If you can’t make it out in person follow along with the live scoring/update links down below. It appears they have live streaming on 2 of the courts at Indian Wells – click here for those streams.#16 Virginia Tech (12-1) at #12 Wake Forest (11-4) – 4pm est...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 20, 2015 | Blog
Vanderbilt ran its record to 4-0 against teams from the state of Tennessee with an impressive 4-1 win over #40 Tennessee. The Vols took the doubles point but Vandy took 5 opening sets and ended up getting wins from Gonzales Austin, Danny Valent, Baker Newman, and Suresh Eswaran. FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of March 19th. For more details about UTR check out their website. #17 Vanderbilt 4, #40 Tennessee 1Singles1. #10 Gonzales Austin (VU 14.40) def. #14 Mikelis Libietis (UT 14.23) 6-4, 6-22. Hunter Reese (UT 13.28) vs. Rhys Johnson (VU 13.45) 5-7, 6-1, 2-3 unf.3. Danny...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 19, 2015 | Blog
The top 25 showdown between South Florida and Minnesota may have finished 4-3 but it wasn’t that close as South Florida cruised to the doubles point and then picked up 4 opening sets and ended up sweeping the top 3 courts. Roberto Cid provided the clincher at #1 singles winning the 3rd set 6-1 then after the clinch the 2 remaining matches played 10 point supertiebreaks in lieu of a 3rd set. USF recap”[Minnesota] has a very good team in doubles and we have a very strong team in doubles, so we knew that would be a huge point, said head coach Matt Hill. “The guys played really well today, especially at No. 1 and No. 3, so that gave us a...
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