by Bobby Knight | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
Oracle announced on Tuesday the creation of the Oracle US Tennis Awards which will award one male and one female American player, with college tennis ties, a grant for $100,000 each to help with their transition from college to professional tennis. The two individuals will be chosen by the six-member Oracle US Tennis Awards Advisory Council with the six members being Chris Evert, Ilana Kloss, Peggy Michel, Tim Russell, Martin Blackman, and Todd Martin. The two individuals chosen must have demonstrated exemplary sportsmanship as well as shown that they are ready for the pro tour (i.e results on the ITF Pro Circuit). Playing on the pro tour is extremely...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
TCU’s west coast trip has been a good one so far as the Horned Frogs won their third straight with a 6-1 win at UC Santa Barbara. TCU won the doubles point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3 then they took four first sets in singles. Cameron Norrie, Guillermo Nunez, and Reese Stalder won in straight sets with Nunez clinching at No. 3. Alex Rybakov and Jerry Lopez won in third sets while UCSB’s Chase Masciorini double-bageled Gianni Mancini at No. 6. I’m not sure how Masciorini’s match didn’t finish first but according to the box score it was the second to last match to finish. With three straight wins, @RoditiTCUTennis’s hat...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
This has been a season of firsts for Cornell with the Big Red achieving a program high ranking of No. 18 a few weeks ago and then today they picked up their first ever top 10 win after going into Norman and defeating Oklahoma 4-3. The day didn’t start off very promising for Cornell because Oklahoma rolled through the doubles point picking up a 6-2 win at No. 2 and a 6-0 win at No. 3. The teams split first sets in singles and three of the six would finish in straight sets. Oklahoma junior Spencer Papa was the first to finish after he defeated Cornell sophomore David Volfson in straight sets at No. 1. Volfson went up a break at 4-3 in the first set but...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog
For the second down in a row the Bay Area delivered some high quality but on Saturday the big winners were the visitors from the Lone Star State. TCU came into the weekend ranked just outside the top 30 with a 5-4 record but they’ll head to Santa Barbara three games over .500 after coming back from a 3-0 deficit to defeat No. 41 Stanford 4-3. TCU made a doubles lineup adjustment by dropping an ailing Reese Stalder from No. 1 to No. 3 and moving Cameron Norrie up from No. 3 to No. 1 in an attempt to find a way to sweep the top two courts. On Friday night against Cal, Stalder teamed with Jerry Lopez to defeat the top ranked doubles team of Filip Bergevi...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 11, 2017 | Blog
WOW – what a tremendous day of college tennis action! The day got started early with No. 2 Wake Forest hosting No. 5 North Carolina and it finished 10 hours later with No. 31 TCU pulling off an upset win over No. 6 Cal. Both of the matches in Orlando were tremendous with No. 36 Florida State and No. 15 Florida playing in front of a College MatchDay record-crowd and then at the same time on the other six courts you had Tulsa and Central Florida go down to the wire. I’ll start off with the biggest upset of the day, in terms of ranking, which took place in Palo Alto between a resurgent No. 41 Stanford and No. 8 Texas. The Cardinal was coming off...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
It was a bit of a slow week in women’s college tennis, with a few top teams not even playing this week. The biggest upset of the week went to the USC Trojans, who hosted No.4 Michigan and ran off with a 5-2 win. No. 2 Ohio State had a successful trip out west, defeating No. 9 Pepperdine and No. 35 Arizona State. Below are the results from last weekend for the Top 10:3/3No. 1 Florida def. No. 37 LSU 7-0No. 3 North Carolina def. Clemson 6-1No. 32 Southern Cal def. No. 4 Michigan 5-2No. 5 Georgia Tech def. No. 48 Virginia Tech 6-1No. 6 Auburn def. No. 33 Mississippi State 6-1No. 9 Pepperdine def. No. 35 Arizona State 4-33/4No. 2 Ohio State def. No. 9...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
There are six men’s and ten women’s matches this weekend between top 25 teams. The biggest match on the men’s side takes place at 1 p.m on Friday (who came up with that time) as No. 2 Wake Forest hosts No. 5 North Carolina. The other top 10 men’s match is on Saturday as No. 6 Cal hosts No. 8 Texas during the Big 12/Pac 12 Shootout (don’t think its actually called that this year but it should be). Almost all the women’s SEC matches will be between ranked teams since 10 of the 14 members are ranked inside the top 25. The Auburn/Georgia match on Sunday appears to be the frontrunner for match of the week. Below are...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
It seems like usually when USC and UCLA meet the match comes down to a deciding court but that was not the case tonight. USC jumped out to the early 1-0 lead after picking up wins at No. 2 and No. 3 and then the Trojans took four opening sets in singles. Three weeks ago when these teams met Thibault Forget lost to Austin Rapp in three sets at No. 4 but tonight Forget cruised to a straight set win over Rapp at No. 5. In the last meeting, USC freshman Brandon Holt lost the decider to Martin Redlicki 6-4 in the third but tonight Holt got revenge with a straight set win which made it 3-0. UCLA senior Gage Brymer put the Bruins on the board with a straight set win...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 9, 2017 | Blog
The latest Oracle/ITA women’s singles and doubles rankings came out on Tuesday and I’ve got your full breakdown down below. Ohio State sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo remains at the top spot in the singles rankings while North Carolina senior Hayley Carter and UCLA freshman Ena Shibahara swapped spots at No. 2 and No. 3 with Carter at No. 2. North Carolina freshman Sara Daavettila and Vanderbilt junior Astra Sharma remain at No. 4 to No. 5. There is a new doubles No. 1 with North Carolina’s Hayley Carter and Jessie Aney rising two spots from No. 3 to No. 1 while Michigan’s Kate Fahey and Alex Najarian...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
The latest USTA Top 25 is out with both the men’s and women’s top 5 staying the same. Texas A&M was the only team on the men’s side to move more than three spots with the Aggies rising seven spots to No. 16 after defeating both Florida and South Carolina on the road. USC and Baylor made the biggest leaps on the women’s side with USC rising eight spots to No. 15 after defeating Michigan while Baylor rose four spots to No. 14 after defeating UCLA and Old Dominion. Michigan fell four spots to No. 13 after losing to USC while four teams fell three spots. Mississippi State was the only team to drop out of the top 25 after losing to...
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