by Bobby Knight | Nov 12, 2016 | Blog
The last weekend of fall tournament play has seen Baylor put on a show out in California as the Bears locked up all four semifinal spots at the Jack Kramer Collegiate Invitational. The only tournament on the East Coast saw a tidal wave knock out most of the top seeds at the Wake Forest Fall Invite with names like Uspensky and Manji falling early. Oregon went a perfect 8-0 in singles at the Duck Invitational while the Rice women dominated the opening day at the LSU Fall Classic. Idaho and Oregon each had the upper hand on Day 1 of the Gonzaga Invitational with the Vandals and the Ducks each winning four of six singles matches while NC State went 4-0 in singles...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 10, 2016 | Blog
Another National Signing day has come and gone as many of the top high school players throughout the country have signed on the dotted line for the 2017-18 season. The Tennis Recruiting Network has run numerous features this week profiling several of the top signees so if you haven’t visited their site already make sure you check it out. There are too many signees to list them all but I’ve put the TRN Blue Chips, 5-stars, and Internationals down below and sorted them by their Universal Tennis Rating. If you just go off UTR then it looks like the top men’s signees are Ohio State’s JJ Wolf and John McNally while the top women are...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog
John Peers (Baylor ’11) was the big winner this past weekend after he and his doubles partner Henri Kontinen won their first ATP Masters 1000 event at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Peers, who spent three years at Middle Tennessee State before transfering to Baylor for his senior year, and Kontinen defeated the ATP No. 1 team of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 10-6. It was the fourth title this year for the pairing and overall it was Peers’s 23rd career title. Peers and Kontinen will compete at the year-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals which begin this Sunday at London’s O2 Arena. There will be five former collegians...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog
Most people’s attention this past weekend, including mine, was focused on the National Indoor Intercollegiates but there were several other fall tournaments that took place as many schools closed out their fall schedules.Georgia sophomore Emil Reinberg, who is a name to keep an eye on this year, was named the singles champion at the Bulldog Scramble in Athens after going 4-0 with wins over Princeton’s Alex Day, Wake’s Dennis Uspensky, Georgia Tech’s Carlos Benito, and Miami’s Christian Langmo.Other notable performancesSouth Carolina freshman Scotty Cameron went 4-0 with wins over Princeton’s Tom Colautti, Miami’s Nile...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 6, 2016 | Blog
Ohio State came into Sunday with a chance to be the first school to sweep the men’s and women’s singles titles at the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships since Stanford in 2001 (Alex Kim/Laura Granville) but while one Buckeye would play the all-important no-ad points to perfection the other wouldn’t fair as well. Ohio State sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo was attemping to become the first women to repeat as the NIIC Singles Champ since Arkansas’s Aurelija Miseviciute (2007/2008) while her opponent North Carolina senior Hayley Carter was trying to give North Carolina it’s second title in the last four years (Jamie...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 5, 2016 | Blog
Both of the top seeds from Ohio State pushed one step closer to singles championships but they’ll have experienced seniors on the oppostie side of the net on Sunday morning. Ohio State junior Mikael Torpegaard cruised past a pair of opponents on Friday but there’d be no cruising in the semifinals against Mississippi State sophomore Nuno Borges. Torpegaard broke Borges to start the match and held for 2-0 but Borges broke back and held to even it at 2-2. Torpegaard broke right back and held again for 4-2 and then a few games later served out the set from 40/15 to take it 6-4. Borges fought off a pair of break points to start the second set and...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
The semifinals are set at the National Indoor Intercollegiates with both top seeds pushing through while both second seeds got shown the door. The men’s top seed Ohio State junior Mikael Torpegaard only dropped six games in two easy wins while the women’s top seed Ohio State sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo won a straight setter before getting past Vanderbilt’s Sydney Campbell in three sets. Georgia junior Wayne Montgomery upset the men’s second seed Virginia senior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski in a match where Kwiatkowski actually won seven more points. Montgomery took the opening set 6-3 but Kwiatkowski won a quick 6-1 second set....
by Bobby Knight | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
Each of the top three seeds in the singles draws advanced to the Round of 16 but the top seeds in the doubles draws weren’t as fortunate. The top seed in the men’s singles draw, Ohio State’s Mikael Torpegaard, only dropped four games in his straight set win over Texas freshman Christian Sigsgaard while the top seed in the women’s draw, Ohio State’s Francesca Di Lorenzo, only dropped two games in a rout over Nevada’s Claudia Herrero. Arkansas, Ohio State, Virginia, and Wake Forest each went 2-0 in men’s singles action while Cal and Texas went 0-2. There were two upsets by seed though neither would really be...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog
The draws were released on Tuesday night for the 2016 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships which will be held at the USTA Billie Jean National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. We already knew the top seeds but now we have the matchups to go with those seeds. Since the singles draw is limited to 32 players there aren’t many first round mismatches so it should be wall-to-wall quality tennis all weekend. Another great thing about this tournament is the schedule which has the championship matches on a Sunday and not a Monday (Men’s AA/National Team Indoors) or Tuesday (NCAA).Women’s Field By The Numbers Schools with...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
USC freshman Brandon Holt won the Southern California Intercollegiate Championships on Monday afternoon with a straight set win over senior teammate Nick Crystal. Holt broke Crystal from 30/40 to take the opening set 6-4 but Crystal looked like he’d take the early break lead in the second after going ahead 0/40 on Holt’s 1-1 service game. Holt managed to come back and hold for 2-1 but Crystal would even it at 2-2 after coming back from 15/40 down. Crystal finally got the break, on the deciding point, to go up 3-2 but he wouldn’t win another game the rest of the way. Crystal double faulted the break back to Holt and then Holt held on the...
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