by Bobby Knight | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
Friday will be a fairly light day of activity with just 8 teams in the Top 20 in action and with the only matchup between top 20 teams taking place in College Station as #9 Texas A&M hosts #11 Vanderbilt.Before I preview that one here are a few others to keep an eye on today:#31 San Diego (8-3) at #34 Texas Tech (12-4) – 1pm est – Live Scoring – San Diego is coming off a hard fought loss against USC and has wins on the year over South Carolina and South Florida while Texas Tech has only played 1 match in the last 3 weeks though has wins this year over Auburn and Mississippi State. #24 Florida State (10-4) at #19 Wake Forest (9-4)...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
This morning I got a chance to watch the Fox Sports Oklahoma telecast of Tuesday’s Oklahoma/Virginia match and I must say I was impressed with the production of the match and the quality of the announcing. The version I watched was taped and edited but they did a good job bouncing around from court to court. They started the telecast a few games into singles and started showing the match at #1 singles but they also showed several games of the Alvarez/Shane match at #2 singles. After those 2 matches finished up they showed the last 3 games of the Webb/Kwiatkowski match and then showed the last several games of the Bragusi/Aragone match....
by Bobby Knight | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog
Tuesday was a great night for college tennis with both Oklahoma/Virginia and Baylor/Ole Miss delivering two great matches. The lineup for this coming weekend is a little light with many teams starting to take some time off for spring break. However there are a few notable matches with the interesting ones listed below. The match tomorrow between Georgia and Tennessee will be on ESPN3 so make sure you tune in catch the broadcast. What is really odd is there is no mention of the telecast on Tennessee’s website and in fact the only reason I know it’s on ESPN3 is because I saw this tweet – CORRECTION – another tweet...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog
The headlining match of the day lived up to its billing as #1 Oklahoma came from behind to knock off #7 Virginia 4-3. This showdown was played using the traditional scoring system which had doubles play a pro set to 8 and had ad scoring used in both doubles and singles. Oklahoma jumped out to early 4-2 leads at 1 and 3 doubles and would actually lead 6-3 at #1 before Virginia started turning it around. Virginia’s #1 team of Corinteli/Shane broke at 4-6 to get it back on serve and it stayed that way until the tiebreak. In the tiebreak the UVA #1s would win the final 2 points to take it 8-6. Virginia’s #2 team of Kwiatkowski/Aragone...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog
The new rankings are out and if you scroll all the way down I’ve got both the men’s and women’s team rankings along with singles and doubles listed too.Oklahoma retains its spot at #1 and widens its gap after picking up an impressive road win at Ohio State last week. The Sooners now have 9, yes 9, top 20 wins so they are going to be up near the top for quite a while. The 5 best wins used for these rankings were the road wins at Wake Forest and Ohio State, and neutral court wins against Baylor, USC, and Ole Miss. For next week’s rankings OU will have wins over #2 Baylor, #5 USC, at #10 Ohio State, and 2 wins over #12...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 10, 2015 | Blog
Tuesday should be a terrific day of tennis with 6 of the top 12 in action with Norman (OK), Oxford (MS), and Gainesville (FL) the place to be at 3 and 6pm. Usually matches like these are reserved for the weekend but we get 3 blockbusters early in the week. #12 Virginia (9-2) at #1 Oklahoma (13-1) – 6pm est (Calm – Temps in 60s) – This is the premier match of the day with both of these teams expected to be national title contenders come May. Despite the #12 ranking many consider Virginia to be a top 5, if not top 2 or 3, team because they are loaded with talent but have had a few spots in the lineup that haven’t produced...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog
Another crazy week of upsets is behind us so now we get to see what the rankings will look like on Tuesday. This week’s rankings are using each team’s top 5 best wins as will next weeks. The March 24th rankings will use each team’s 6 best wins and then every subsequent week after that they add 1 more best win to get up to 9 by April 14th. Virginia Tech will be the biggest riser in the Top 50 by jumping from 44 up to 17 after knocking off Notre Dame and Duke over the weekend. Notre Dame will take the biggest fall by dropping from 23 to 36 after losing to both Virginia Tech and Louisville.Others Coming Up:Virginia comes up 5 spots...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog
The upsets keep on coming and today it was #2 Duke’s turn as the Blue Devils got stunned by #44 Virginia Tech 6-1. What made the Hokies win that much more impressive was the fact that Virginia Tech played singles without its #1 player Amerigo Contini which meant everybody else had to slide up 1 spot in the lineup. Duke was also without its #5 singles player Chris Mengel.Duke started off fine by taking the doubles point with wins at 1 and 2 but Virginia Tech would pick off Duke 1 by 1 in singles. Florian Nicoud started things off by blowing out Josh Levine at #5 singles 6-1, 6-3 then Aaron Gomez gave Tech its first lead when he finished...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog
Who saw this one coming? Alabama shocks #9 Ole Miss 4-2 in T-Town. The same Alabama team that came into the match with an 8-9 record with the 8 wins being over powerhouses UAB, Samford, Jackson State (4X), and Jacksonville State (2X). The same Ole Miss team that routed a top 15 Vanderbilt team last weekend and the same team that gave #1 Oklahoma all it wanted at the National Indoors. Total head-scratcher….Ole Miss played well in doubles and took the point by winning at 1 and 3 but singles got off to a rough start when William Kallberg retired 3 games in at #4 singles. The Bama recap said it was due to injury but didn’t...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 7, 2015 | Blog
What a match tonight in Columbus with #1 Oklahoma coming in and knocking off #8 Ohio State 4-3 and thus snapping the Buckeyes unbelievable home court winning streak at 200. Early on it looked like the streak would live on as Ohio State came out strong and took the doubles point by winning 6-4 at #1 and 6-2 at #3. Ty Tucker decided to change up the singles lineup a bit by moving freshman Mikael Torpegaard up from 2 to 1 while moving Chris Diaz from 1 to 2 and Tucker also switched up Ralf Steinbach and Hunter Callahan by moving Steinbach up to 4 and dropping Callahan down to 5. Steinbach woud be the first off the court with an impressive 6-2, 6-2 win...
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