by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2015 | Blog
A great start to the day in Chicago as Oklahoma comes back from getting shellacked in doubles to win 4 singles matches and knock off fellow Big 12 member Baylor 4-2. Baylor looked as fired up today as it did yesterday and it showed during the doubles point but once singles got underway that emotion started to fade as Oklahoma really established itself on the top 4 courts. Oklahoma took the opening set on 1, 2, 3, and 4 while Baylor was able to pick up opening sets at 5 and 6. Tony Lupieri was one of yesterday’s heroes for Baylor but he just didn’t seem to have the same giddy-up in his step today and Dane Webb really pushed him all over the court in...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2015 | Blog
We almost got the top 4 seeds into the semifinals but the #11 seeded Baylor Bears decided they wanted to crash the party so instead we have #1 USC, #2 Oklahoma, #4 Georgia, and #11 Baylor each playing for a spot in Monday’s Championship.[2] Oklahoma vs. [11] Baylor – 12pm cst – It’ll be a Big 12 battle as Oklahoma (8-0) takes on Baylor (6-1) in what will likely be the 1st of 3 meeting this year. Last year they played each other 3 times and each finished with a 4-3 score with Oklahoma winning twice and Baylor once so I’d say we’re heading towards another 4-3 final. Baylor has been better at...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2015 | Blog
It was a great day of tennis on Saturday with the final match of the day just as thrilling as the 1st one. Even though Georgia never trailed it felt like it was a come from behind win due to Georgia being so far down on so many courts early one. Illinois seemingly had the doubles point in the bag when they were up 5-3 in the deciding match at #1 with Ross Guignon serving for it but Georgia got the break on the deciding point and held on to take it in a tiebreak. In singles action Illinois jumped out to a break lead on all 6 courts and would take 6-1 first sets at 1, 2, and 5 and a 6-2 set at 4. Georgia’s Nathan Pasha would come back from a...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 14, 2015 | Blog
Day 1 of the National Indoors saw a slew of competitive matches but if you were a fan at home trying to follow the streaming video or the live scoreboard you were probably ready to pull your hair out. I’m not sure what the problem is with the NTIs but this is the 2nd year in a row that the “Live” scoring has been “Taped Delayed” scoring with it commonly delayed by multiple games. You see guys go from winning the 1st set to 20 minutes later having the score switched to show the other player winning the set, you had the scoreboard operator wipe out the completed set scores early in the day and just put a 1 by whoever won...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog
Virginia started things off by taking a tight doubles point over TCU with the decider coming down to a tiebreak at #2 but once singles got underway the top of the Cavs lineup came through with each winning in straight sets. The 3 remaining courts were all still up for grabs at the time of the clinch. Virginia’s Collin Altamirano played doubles but did not play at #4 singles as originally slotted which moved everyone else up a spot. With the win Virginia moves on to Saturday’s quarterfinals against #11 Baylor.Friday Results:#3 Virginia 4, #17 TCU 0Doubles:1. #24 Stein/Chappell (TCU) def. #37 Corinteli/Shane (UVa) 7-52. #41...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog
Saw this earlier today (story came out on Tuesday) – Division II Montana State Billings will be dropping both its men’s and women’s programs effective at the end of this year. Here is the full release that the school put out with the below excerpts pertaining to the tennis program.”Athletics will see the most visible reductions with the elimination of men’s and women’s tennis. The removal of these sports will mean an annual savings of roughly $230,000 and a complete withdrawal from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tennis is the only sport played by MSUB in that conference – firmly planting the...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog
16 of the best teams in the country head to Chicago this weekend for the ITA Men’s National Team Indoor Championship and I’m going to help break it down round by round. There has been at least one Round of 16 upset each year since 2005 and I don’t see that 10-year trend changing this year. Play gets started on Friday morning so let’s go ahead and dive right in. Round of 16[3] Virginia vs. [14] TCU – 9am cst – Virginia comes into this one undefeated (5-0) but hasn’t faced a legitimate top 40 opponent yet while TCU (5-0) has already won at #12 Texas A&M and #40 Tulsa. A year ago Virginia...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog
The draw was released just a little while ago and this is what we’ve got starting on Friday. The master lineups are listed below as well. [3] Virginia vs. [14] TCU- 9am cst[6] Duke vs. [11] Baylor – 9am cst[7] North Carolina vs. [10] UCLA – 12pm cst[2] Oklahoma vs. [15] Ole Miss – 12pm cst[1] USC vs. [16] Penn State – 3:30pm cst[8] Ohio State vs. [9] Texas – 3:30pm cst[5] Illinois vs. [12] California – 6:30pm cst[4] Georgia vs. [13] Columbia – 6:30pm cstMaster Lineups along with the ITA’s policy on substitution:Line-Up Substitution Policy: Master line-ups must be played throughout the event....
by Bobby Knight | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog
I saw earlier on ZooTennis that the NCAA Championship Cabinet decided not to approve no-ad scoring for the NCAAs so come mid May in Waco regular scoring will be used for both the team championships as well as singles and doubles. Here are the documents that contain the full results from the survey that was done by all the coaches and student athletes pertaining to format changes along with the ITA’s Division I Operating Committee’s proposal to the NCAA D1 Tennis Committee. With this hitting the wire it’ll be interesting to see what format the conferences use between now and the NCAAs because it would make the most sense to...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog
This past weekend Ohio State ran its record breaking home winning streak to 200 when they defeated South Florida so after the win I wanted to look back and see who they had beaten during the streak. At first I thought there was probably already a list out there somewhere due to how impressive the streak is but when I looked around I came up empty. So I said ok I’ll just go to Ohio State’s website and go through the schedules for each year and do a little cut and paste and then sort them by opponent and whatnot. So that’s what I did starting with the Purdue win on April 6th, 2003 and by the time I reached the South Florida win from...
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