by Bobby Knight | Feb 28, 2015 | Blog
Shocker of the day, week, month, year, decade, century, maybe longer – #1 USC playing without Eric Johnson and Nick Crystal goes down to #51 Tulsa 4-3. USC came out strong and really blew out Tulsa in doubles winning 6-1 and 6-0 at 2 and 3 despite having new doubles pairing on each court. Eric Johnson did play in doubles but I guess it was a coaches decision to give him and Nick Crystal the day off in singles and it ultimately proved to be costly. Still even with those 2 guys out of the singles lineup you figure there is no way that Hanfmann and Quiroz are both going to lose and sure enough they both did in straight sets. When I was looking at...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 28, 2015 | Blog
Compared to what we’ll see on Sunday (Virginia at Baylor, Wake Forest at Texas, Vanderbilt at Ole Miss) Saturday should be fairly tame day with just 1 matchup between top 15 schools. Below are the best ones that I saw on the docket so check them out if you get a chance.#34 South Carolina (8-6) at #17 Florida (5-3) – 1pm est. – Live Scoring – South Carolina comes into this one on a 3-match losing streak which includes a 4-2 loss on Thursday to Auburn while Florida is coming off a tough 4-1 loss to Georgia. Florida is 4-4 in doubles while South Carolina is 11-3 with both dropping the doubles point the last time...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 28, 2015 | Blog
Stanford came out strong and took the doubles point over USC but once singles got going so did Stanford’s chances of an upset. USC grabbed 4 1st sets and would finish each of them in straight sets with Eric Johnson putting the first point on the board with his 6-3, 6-1 blowout over David Wilczynski at #3 singles. Nick Crystal would finish off David Hsu 6-1, 6-3 at #6 singles a few minutes later which then set the stage for USC to close it out on the top 2 courts. After Stanford’s Tom Fawcett fought off a match point on the deciding point of his serve, USC’s Yannick Hanfmann would hold serve at love to close out the Cardinal freshman at...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog
The owners of 38 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Team National Championships will meet on Friday afternoon in Los Angeles as the #1 USC Trojans host the #37 Stanford Cardinal.USC’s media guide shows they lead the all-time series 109-76 with the 1st match played in 1925 while Stanford’s shows USC leads it 63-59 with the 1st match coming in 1967. I’d have to go with USC’s as the more accurate source since I know Stanford was playing tennis long before 1967. Stanford has won 17 NCAA Championships with the last coming in 2000 while USC has won 21 NCAA Championships including 5 of the last 6.USC has won 8 straight in...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog
The big match of the day in Gainesville had a close doubles point but once Georgia got the early lead it never looked back and ended up pulling away for a 4-1 win.The doubles point looked like it was Florida’s for the taking after the Gators #2 team of Elliott Orkin and Maxx Lipman cruised to a 6-1 win while its #1 tandem of Diego Hidalgo and Gordon Watson jumped out to a 4-2 lead. With Georgia’s #3 team of Wayne Montgomery and Paul Oosterbaan also winning 6-1 the pressure would go back on Georgia’s #1 team of Austin Smith and Ben Wagland and the undefeated tandem wouldn’t go away as they took 3 straight games to go up 5-4 and...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog
The oldest tennis rivalry in the Deep South will add another chapter to its history books on Thursday evening when 17th ranked Florida hosts 7th ranked Georgia with 1st serve set to go up at 5:30pm sharp. Georgia has played Florida more times than any other opponent and the same goes for Florida. One oddity I noticed is that Florida’s media guide shows it’s played Georgia 100 times while Georgia’s only lists 75 matches against Florida. Below is what each shows is the record against the other: Georgia shows an all-time record of 56-19 against Florida,Florida shows an all-time record of 39-60-1 against Georgia....
by Bobby Knight | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog
There are several intriguing men’s matches coming up over the next 4 days and below are the ones that I’ll be previewing so look for my Georgia/Florida preview sometime later tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest.I just recently made a change to my cable provider so I now have the Pac 12 Network and I’m really looking forward to watching the telecast of Friday’s Stanford/USC match. Justin Gimelstob and Ted Robinson will be on the call and from the few video clips I saw from matches they did last year it appeared the telecast was of very high quality. If I’m not mistaken you can also watch the match online on the Pac 12...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog
The new rankings are out and while all my calculations weren’t 100% correct they were close. I had carried over my points sheet from last year but didn’t make an adjustment for last week’s rankings which had 2 teams tied for 35th which threw off my point totals for everybody from 36 on down by 1 point. USC is the new #1 in the men’s rankings with Oklahoma dropping to #2 after falling at Texas A&M while North Carolina stays at #1 in the women’s rankings. For the full list of both men’s and women’s team rankings, singles, and doubles scroll down the page. I will say though that there are 3 places where...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog
Tomorrow’s set of rankings will be the 1st of the year to use the computers so we’ll see some decent size swings from where teams were ranked in the 2/17 rankings which were the last to be voted on by the ITA National Rankings Committee. Below is what I came up with using the ITA’s formula which is listed down below my chart. There’s always a chance I made a calculation error somewhere but by in large they are usually pretty close. These 2/24 rankings utilize each team’s 4 best wins (with best being determined by who gives you the most ranking points). Road wins are given a 10% bonus so beating the 65th ranked team on...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog
It was a rainy Sunday across much of the country and while several matches were cancelled due to a lack of indoor courts those that had them put them to use. The matches that were cancelled were Tulsa at Texas A&M, Tennessee vs. Georgia Southern (@ Troy, AL), and a pair of consolation matches at the Blue Gray Classic in Montgomery, Alabama – Boise State vs. Alabama and Auburn vs. Mississippi State. Baylor’s home match with UCLA was moved indoors and in the blink of an eye it was over with the Bears rocking UCLA 4-0 in less than 2 hours. Baylor improved to 10-0 on the year in doubles with a pair of easy wins at 2 and 3 and were also...
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