by Bobby Knight | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog
Cal Poly was supposed to kick off its season in Fresno last Friday but the weather had other plans so today’s match in Boise was the Mustangs opener. Cal Poly took the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and No. 3 and then it jumped on Boise State in singles by taking opening sets on five of six courts. Antoine Noel started things off with a straight set win at No. 5 and then both Ben Donovan and Corey Pang followed suit with fairly routine wins at No. 2 and No. 1 with Pang getting the clincher at No. 1. They played the remaining courts out with Cal Poly’s Axel Damiens winning at No. 6 in straight sets while Garrett Auproux won a third set...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog
TCU and Texas both took one on the chin on Friday night but each rebounded nicely today by going on the road and defeating a quality opponent. TCU dropped a tough 4-2 match on Friday night at No. 13 Northwestern and today they were playing at the site of where their season ended a year ago – Tulsa. The Golden Hurricane were coming off an upset win over Texas so you had to figure it was going to be tough for them to play as well as they did on Friday. TCU head coach David Roditi stuck with the same doubles pairings but he swapped his teams at No. 1 and No. 2 and both of those teams would be the ones to get wins. Guillermo Nunez and Alex Rybakov...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 22, 2017 | Blog
The University of Nebraska Omaha started its tennis program in 2008 and after playing in Division II for four years it made the transition to Division I during the 2011-12 season. Since the D1 transition Omaha had only won three conference matches in the lower-tier Summit League, with all three coming against Western Illinois which dropped its struggling program last year, and they’d never come close to defeating a team from a Power 5 Conference going 0-16 while getting outscored 94-4. So when Omaha made the short trip to Lincoln today to play Nebraska it knew the odds were stacked against it but somehow, someway, it managed to do the previously...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 21, 2017 | Blog
We’re still a week away from the Kick-Off Weekend but several lower ranked teams did some kicking tonight as upsets were the story of the day. The biggest upset took place at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center as unranked Tulsa stunned No. 4 Texas 4-3. Tulsa won what turned out to be a pivotal doubles point when it picked up a 6-4 win over at No. 3 and a 6-3 win at No. 2. Texas turned it around in singles by taking four opening sets while Tulsa won the other two in tiebreaks. Harrison Scott and Leo Telles put Texas ahead with quick straight set wins at No. 4 and No. 6 but Or Ram-Harel tied it up at 2-2 after defeating the ITA No. 6 Christian Sigsgaard...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 20, 2017 | Blog
We knew it was coming and now it is official – beginning in 2019 the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships will utilize a super regional round which will take place the week after the completion of the first and second rounds. The 16 teams that advance out of the opening rounds will play the following weekend in two-team super regionals on the campus of the higher seeded team. The eight super regional winners will advance to the finals site with the quarterfinals beginning the following Thursday or Friday. The biggest benefit of going to this format will be that the NCAA semifinals and finals will take place on a Saturday and...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog
The new ITA rankings came out on Wednesday with no change in the women’s rankings and only a few minor changes on the men’s side. As I mentioned in my post yesterday the only ranked women’s teams to play a dual-match so far have been Georgia Tech and South Carolina with both winning over the weekend. On the men’s side Cal and Georgia had been tied for fifth but now Cal is in sole position of fifth while Georgia fell back to sixth – I guess the national ranking committee wasn’t impressed with Georgia going 9-11 in singles over the weekend at the MLK Invitational. TCU and UCLA had been ranked seventh and eighth respectively...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
Several schools in the men’s top 25 knocked off the dust last week with most winning comfortably though some were pushed and even one was upset. The only ranked women’s teams to play last week were Georgia Tech and South Carolina. Let’s take a look to see who did what and what they’ve got coming up this week. The women’s recap is down below the men’s table. If viewing via mobile it’ll probably look better if you open up this google doc. Men’s Top 25RecordLast WeekThis WeekComment1Virginia0-0IdleIdleOpen season on 2/3 at Vanderbilt2Wake Forest2-0def. N Florida 5-2def. ETSU 6-1vs. Oklahoma (1/21)Beat two...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
Alabama missed out on last year’s NCAA Tournament by one spot so in the offseason men’s head coach George Husack overhauled the roster and brought in five newcomers. On Monday afternoon all five of those newcomers were in the lineup and played a pivotal roll in the Crimson Tide’s tight 4-2 win over East Tennessee State. The doubles point was decided in a tiebreak at No. 2 after ETSU’s Diego Nunez and Robert Herrera pulled off an upset at No. 1 and Alabama freshmen Thibault Cancel and Zhe Zhou won at No. 3. Alabama freshmen Alexey Nesterov and Edson Ortiz would pull out the tiebreak at No. 2 by a 7-2 score to give Alabama the early 1-0...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
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by Bobby Knight | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
Florida State welcomed in Florida Atlantic, South Alabama, Mercer, Troy, Florida A&M, and Georgia State for the FSU Invitational this weekend but the hosts couldn’t pull off the weekend sweep after Georgia State surprised them 4-2 in the championship match. FSU won the doubles point fairly comfortably with wins at No. 1 and No. 2 but Georgia State rebounded in singles taking four first sets. FSU’s Aziz Dougaz put the Seminoles in front 2-0 with a straight set win at No. 1 but Georgia State closed out each of the four matches where it won a first set with Jack MacFarlane clinching at No. 6 with a 6-2, 7-6(6) win over Terrell...
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