by Bobby Knight | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog
Typically the ITA only releases one set of individual rankings in the fall, with those being preseason rankings in early September, but today they released a second set of individual rankings which took into account all the results from the past two months. UCLA senior Martin Redlicki jumped up from No. 24 to No. 1 in the men’s singles rankings after going 9-2 with a finals appearance at the All-Americans in Tulsa and a semifinal appearance at the National Fall Championships in California. Redlicki picked up four top 10 wins during the fall with wins over Wake’s Petros Chrysochos, Oregon’s Thomas Laurent, Florida’s Alfredo Perez, and...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
For the second week in a row a former Stanford Cardinal claimed a singles title as Carol Zhao won the biggest singles title of her pro career at the ITF $100K event in Shenzhen, China. Zhao started off the week with a 6-4 (ret.) win over the No. 7 seed Anna Zaja and then in the second round she came back from a 5-1 third set deficit to defeat former top 30 player Laura Robson 6-1, 4-6, 7-5. Zhao defeated Xu Liu Sun 7-5, 6-4 in the quarterfinals and then in the semifinals she won 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 over Yuxuan Zhang. In the final, Zhao ousted the No. 4 seed Fangzhou Liu 7-5, 6-2 in 1 hour and 19 minutes. The singles title is the second of Zhao’s career with...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 11, 2017 | Blog
National Signing Day was this past Wednesday with hundreds of high school seniors signing their national letters of intent. The Tennis Recruiting Network has been doing a tremendous job with its Fall Signing Week coverage with article after article profiling several of the signees so if you haven’t visited their site recently I highly recommend doing so.It’s always interesting to look back at the recruiting rankings from years past to see who excelled and who did not. If you look back at TRN’s Blue Chips from 2014 several of them are top of the lineup players, some are solid contributors in the middle to lower part of the lineup, and a few...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
Kristie Ahn won her second singles title of the year, seventh career, after defeating two-time NCAA singles champion Danielle Collins in the final of the $80K RBC Pro Challenge in Tyler, Texas. The match started off with three consecutive breaks until Ahn held for 3-1. The rest of the opening set was all holds, including a six-deuce hold by Ahn for 5-3, as Ahn would go on to take it 6-4. Ahn went up an early break in the second set but Collins back on serve at 4-4. However Ahn would break back at love for 5-4 and then go on to serve it out in a one-deuce game to claim the title with a 6-4, 6-4 win. Ahn earned $12,000 and picked up 115 WTA ranking points...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 6, 2017 | Blog
Mississippi State junior Nuno Borges finished off a dominating week in California by winning the men’s singles title at the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships. Borges hadn’t dropped a set all week entering Sunday’s final against Wake Forest junior Petros Chrysochos and that wouldn’t change in the 1 hour and 10 minute match. Borges faced an early break point on his 1-1 service game but he managed to hold on the no-ad point when Chrysochos missed a forehand wide. Borges had three break points on Chrysochos’s 2-3 service game but the Wake junior fought them off to hold for 3-3. Borges had a pair of set points on...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 5, 2017 | Blog
The finals are set at the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships with Mississippi State junior Nuno Borges set to meet Wake Forest junior Petros Chrysochos in the men’s final while Duke senior Samantha Harris and Florida International senior Andrea Lazaro will meet in the women’s final. Nuno Borges rolled through the first set against UCLA senior Martin Redlicki taking it 6-2 but Redlicki turned the tide in the second set and went in front 4-1. Borges fought back and after holding for 2-4 he’d break from 30/40 to put it back on serve at 3-4. Borges held for 4-4 and then broke on the no-ad point after a good angled forehand forced a...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog
Friday was a busy day at the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships with two rounds of singles contested and by the time the dust had settled we had our final four. On the men’s side, three of the top five seeds advanced to the semifinals with the top seed Nuno Borges (Miss St) the only one not to drop a set. Borges will meet UCLA’s Martin Redlicki after the Bruin senior won a pair of three setters. Redlicki came back from a set down to defeat Tennessee’s Timo Stodder in the Round of 16 and then in the quarterfinals against Wake’s Skander Mansouri he squandered four match points at *5-4 (40/0) in the third but he still managed to pull...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog
The second day of the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships saw 14 of 16 men’s matches finish in straight sets with 10 of the original 16 seeds advancing to Friday’s Round of 16. The top seed Mississippi State’s Nuno Borges rolled to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Kentucky’s Ryo Matsumura while the No. 2 seed USC’s Brandon Holt was upset by Florida State’s Lucas Poullain 6-3, 6-4. Texas A&M’s Jordi Arconada won the quickest match of the day after his opponent Alexis Galarneau retired early in the first set due to illness. Virginia’s Aswin Lizen accounted for the other upset with a 6-0, 6-2 thrashing of Baylor’s...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog
The opening day of the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships saw most of the top seeds pull through however there were a couple of big upsets on the women’s side. Oklahoma State senior Vladica Babic (11.27) rolled the top seed Florida senior Anna Danilina (12.10) 6-3, 6-1 while Ole Miss senior Arianne Hartono (11.53) came back from a set down to defeat the No. 3 seed Cal senior Karla Popovic (11.86) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. The No. 2 and No. 4 seeds also got all they wanted with Pepperdine sophomore Ashley Lahey (11.92) holding off Purdue junior Silvia Ambrosio (10.70) 7-6(4), 1-6, 6-3 while UCLA sophomore Ena Shibahara (11.82) edged TCU...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 1, 2017 | Blog
The final major event of the fall, the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships, kicks off on Wednesday morning at the JW Marriott and Indian Wells Tennis Garden in sunny California. Mississippi State junior Nuno Borges is the top seed in the men’s singles draw while Florida senior Anna Danilina is the top seed in the women’s singles draw. The top seeds in the doubles draws are Florida’s Johannes Ingildsen and Alfredo Perez and Duke’s Ellyse Hamlin and Kaitlyn McCarthy. There will be one round of singles played on Wednesday and one on Thursday and then on Friday they’ll be two rounds. The semifinals will be held on...
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