by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog
It’s going to be strange to have an ITA Men’s National Team Indoor Championship without Virginia but that’s what we get this year after the Cavaliers were knocked out in the regional rounds. The University of Washington will host the event with half the matches to be played on campus at the Nordstrom Tennis Center while the other half will be played a few miles away at the Seattle Tennis Club. This year’s event is wide open with multiple teams having a legitimate shot at raising the hardware on Monday afternoon. Stanford has the most NTI Championships with 12 but its last came back in 2002 while three of the last four champions...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 9, 2018 | Blog
While the ITA Women’s National Team Indoors is taking place in Madison their are a slew of other men’s matches taking place elsewhere. Below are some notable matches in the Power 5 along with a few other conferences. The highest profile matches are taking place in Ann Arbor, Champaign, and Columbus. Michigan is hosting Florida, Harvard, and Cal with all three expected to be good matches. Ohio State welcomes in Texas A&M and Florida while Illinois hosts Stanford and Cal. Other matches to keep an eye on are Wake Forest at Oklahoma State, Kentucky at Duke, and Ole Miss at Columbia. I’ve accumulated a bunch of live scoring links so this...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog
The ITA National Women’s Team Indoor Championship gets underway on Friday morning in chilly Madison, Wisconsin. Florida, which is the No. 8 seed, is the defending champion but the Gators will have an uphill climb after dropping its last two to Florida State and Oklahoma State. North Carolina will attempt to make it to the finals for the fourth year in a row while the top seed Vanderbilt will look to win its first NTI Championship. All matches will be held on campus at Wisconsin with live streaming available via PlaySight for the matches on courts 1 through 6 (Duke/SC, UCLA/TT, GT/Mich, Florida/Wisconsin). There will be live scoring...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 21, 2017 | Blog
When I first started College Tennis Today three years ago I wasn’t really sure how much content I’d be able to produce due to my son, 2 1/2 at the time, being my main priority during the day. I had a few small windows of free time here and there but by and large I did most of my writing at night which on many occasions turned into late-night. Once my son started going to preschool my free time increased which meant I was able to spend more time diving into the numbers and analyzing stats and rankings and whatnot. During the dual-match portion of the season if I had a free minute I was updating something on the site or preparing something for...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog
Incoming TCU freshman Andreea Rosca won a second consecutive pro singles title in Cairo and also picked up a doubles title as well. Rosca only dropped 18 games in her five singles wins with just four of those coming in the final in a 6-1, 6-3 win over Austria’s Melanie Klaffner. Rosca will have a new career-high singles ranking of around 601 when these 12 points are added in next week. Rosca and Gabriela Tatarus won the doubles title with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Klaffner and Jelena Stojanovic. The doubles title was the fourth of Rosca’s career with three of those coming with Tatarus. ?? Back-to-back titles for Andreea Rosca!Rosca captures the...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog
Last week was another strong on the pro tour for players with college ties. The unstoppable doubles duo of Rob Galloway (Wofford ’15) and Ben Lock (Florida State ’16) ran their winning streak to 23 after winning a sixth straight doubles title. Galloway and Lock won a third straight doubles title in South Africa after previously winning three straight in Kuwait. They won their first three matches in straight sets and then in the finals of the South Africa F3 in Stellenbosch they edged Jaime Pulgar-Garcia (NC State ’12) and Javier Pulgar-Garcia (San Diego State ’12) 7-6, 6-7, 10-5. Lock’s ranking is now a new career high of 247...
by Bobby Knight | Dec 7, 2017 | Blog
The United States had won the Master’U BNP Paribas for six straight years, and seven of the last eight, but Great Britain put an end to that streak with a 4-2 upset win last Sunday. The US came back from a 2-1 deficit in wins over France and Germany but it couldn’t do it a third time against Great Britain. UCLA sophomore Ena Shibahara put Team USA in front 1-0 after coming back from 3-0 down in the third set to win 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 but recent North Florida graduate Jack Findel-Hawkins tied it up after defeating UCLA senior Martin Redlicki 6-4, 6-4. Pepperdine sophomore Ashley Lahey fell 7-6, 7-6 but it looked like USC sophomore Brandon Holt would tie...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog
The 12th annual Master’U BNP Paribas is set to begin in France with several current and former US college players set to participate in the eight-team event that Team USA has dominated since 2011. Team USA will be represented by UCLA’s Martin Redlicki and Ena Shibahara, USC’s Brandon Holt, Pepperdine’s Ashley Lahey, Florida’s Alfredo Perez, and North Carolina’s Alle Sanford. Other players with US college tennis ties are Michael Geerts (Arizona State Sr/Belgium), Louis Cant (Mississippi State ’12/Belgium), Jane Fennelly (Notre Dame ’17/Ireland), Pippa Horn (Texas ’15/Great Britain), and Jack Findel-Hawkins...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog
The USTA announced that the popular College MatchDay series will return to Lake Nona in 2018 with eight matches scheduled between February 3rd and April 15th. The series kicks off with the Florida State and Florida men and women playing simultaneously and then a week later the Georgia and Georgia Tech men will play on February 9. The USTA National Campus drew over 5300 fans a year ago including just under 1800 for Florida State’s upset win over Florida. Last year, College MatchDay cemented itself as the bowl series of college tennis, with marquee matches and elite programs, said USTA Collegiate Tennis Director Stephen Amritraj via the USTA’s...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
The final women’s singles rankings of the fall are out and the top three players are from the unlikely locales of Kansas, Florida Atlantic, and Florida International. Kansas junior Anastasia Rychagova, who won the consolation draw at the All-Americans, jumped from No. 35 to No. 1 after picking up nine ranked wins including three over top 10 opponents. Rychagova becomes the first Kansas player to ever hold the top spot in the singles ranking. Florida Atlantic sophomore Aliona Bolsova moved up from No. 30 to No. 2 after making the finals at the All-Americans. Bolsova picked up six ranked wins in her run from the qualifying draw to the final....
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