by Bobby Knight | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog
While the Mountain Regional finished up its second day of main draw play several other regionals just got started on Thursday with a few more not firing up until Friday or Saturday. Below is a brief recap from five of the men’s regionals with more updates to come throughout the weekend. Men: Mountain (BYU) – 128 singlesSeeds1. Dan Little (Utah)2. David Micevski (Utah)3. Ricky Hernandez Tong (New Mexico)4. Christofer Goncalves (New Mexico State)5. Tim Handel (Northern Arizona)6. Dominic West (New Mexico)7. Svyatoslav Shainyan (Utah)8. Jaime Barajas (Utah State)Notes: BYU sophomore Sean Hill (12.80), who played at Wake Forest last fall,...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 18, 2017 | Blog
Last week there were 7 ITA Regionals played which means the remaining 17 are this week. There will be 10 men’s regionals and 7 women’s regionals with the singles finalists and doubles winners advancing to the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships in early November. All the draws are out and I have listed the top 8 seeds for each of those regionals down below. I believe there will be live streaming from 6 regionals with Texas A&M, Yale, Stanford, Kansas, Auburn, and Georgia each having the capabilities to do so. Michigan and Liberty are the only two schools that have mentioned they are doing live scoring so we’ll see if...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 18, 2017 | Blog
This past week was a good one for recent NCAA singles champions with the 2016 champ Mackenzie McDonald winning the $100K Fairfield Challenger while the 2017 champ Thai Kwiatkowski won the $25K Houston Futures. Prior to last week McDonald’s best performance at the Challenger-level was the semifinals but he plowed past that point with a straight set win over Australia’s Christopher O’Connell and then in the finals he defeated Bradley Klahn 6-4, 6-2. McDonald earned a $14,400 payday plus he picked up 90 ATP ranking points which moved him up to a new career-high ranking of 164. .@mackiemacster reflects on his maiden #ATPChallenger title...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog
The ITA Carolina Regional had a strong field with the likes of Nicolas Alvarez, Gabriel Friedrich, Robert Kelly, and Christian Seraphim but when play commenced on Tuesday morning the big winner was UNC Asheville junior Henry Patten. The reigning Big South Player of the Year won all six matches in straight sets, including a 6-3, 6-1 win in the singles final over Clemson’s Alex Favrot, to earn an automatic bid in the ITA National Fall Championships. Below are some comments from UNCA’s recap:”It shows a lot of the hard work is worth it and the progression is really nice,” Patten mused. “I just want to thank Coach Tom Hand as he has...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog
Kentucky came away from the Ohio Valley Regional as the big winner after Justina Mikulskyte won the singles title and Mami Adachi and Akvile Parazinskaite won an all-Kentucky doubles final. Mikulskyte edged Purdue’s Silvia Ambrosio 7-6(9), 6-3 in the singles final to cap off a week in which the UK junior won six matches with five of them coming in straight sets. “I am proud of our team,” said head coach Carlos Drada via Kentucky’s recap. “They continue to buy into our philosophies and continue to play with joy and mental toughness. It is not an easy feat to win singles and doubles regionals two-straight...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog
The following is the selection criteria from the ITA’s page:The 2017 Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, which serves as the concluding event to the fall portion of the college tennis schedule, is the only intercollegiate event to feature competitors from all five divisions competing for a national championship.Through a combination of on-court competition and at-large berths and wild cards, there are several ways for student-athletes to qualify for the 2017 Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, which will be held November 1-5, at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert, California, and the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog
Idaho junior Marianna Petrei booked her spot at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships after defeating Colorado freshman Linda Huang 7-5, 6-4 in the finals of the Mountain Regional in Salt Lake City. Petrei entered the weekend as the No. 2 seed and ended up winning six matches while only dropping one set. Purdue junior Silvia Ambrosio will meet Kentucky junior Justina Mikulskyte in the final of the Ohio Valley Regional after each defeated higher seeds on Sunday. Ambrosio ousted the No. 9 seed Kentucky’s Mami Adachi 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-2 while Mikulskyte defeated the No. 4 seed Vanderbilt’s Amanda Meyer 6-4,...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 15, 2017 | Blog
While some ITA Regionals just got started on Saturday there were a few that have already hit the later stages. The women’s Mountain Regional in Salt Lake City began on Wednesday and will wrap on Sunday and the surprise so far has been Colorado freshman Linda Huang (10.60). The freshman from Australia has yet to lose a collegiate match and now finds herself in the singles final after defeating the No. 1 and No. 3 seeds in the quarterfinals and semifinals. Huang will face the No. 2 seed Idaho’s Marianna Petrei in Sunday’s final with first serve set for 11 a.m. MT. Purdue junior Silvia Ambrosio had a great day on Saturday at the Ohio...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 13, 2017 | Blog
Over the next two weekends there will be 12 men’s and 12 women’s ITA Regional Championships held at campus sites across the country with the finalists advancing to the Oracle/ITA National Fall Championships in early November. This weekend there are two men’s regionals and five women’s regionals which means the other 17 will be held the following weekend. Three of the seven regionals this weekend have a qualifying draw while the other four do not. Below I’ll list out the ones being held this weekend along with the top seeds in the singles draw (if draw released).Women:Mountain Regional (Utah) – 128 singles/64...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
Cameron Norrie ran his winning streak to 10 after winning a second straight $100K Challenger with this one coming in Stockton, California. Norrie only dropped four games in his finals win over Darian King which earned the former TCU star a $14,400 paycheck plus 90 ATP ranking points. Norrie’s biggest comeback of the week came against Brydan Klein in the second round. Norrie was down a set and a break at 6-4, 4-3 but he managed to take the second set in a tiebreak and then he pulled away in the third set. Norrie, who now has a new career high ranking of 111, talked to Mike Cation after the match with that conversation available at this link.?...
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