by Bobby Knight | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog
The higher seeds continued to win on Tuesday with 14 of the day’s 16 winners being the higher ranked of the two competitors. [29] Alafia Ayeni pulled off a seeding upset over [16] Alexander Brown 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 but Ayeni was the higher rated player in just about every other category (TRN Class Ranking, UTR, ITF Jr, ATP) coming into the match. The other seeding upset came when [26] Timothy Sah ousted [13] Richard Ciamarra 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. Both of these two were pretty evenly matched with a just a .15 UTR difference so this was a toss-up going in.Alafia Ayeni 4th Round: [1] Michael Mmoh (Pro) def. [18] Keegan Smith (’17) 6-2, 6-2 [10] Oliver...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog
Seeded players had a great day on Monday with 24 of 25 seeds moving on to the fourth round with the 15th seed William Genesen the only seeded loser. 24 of the 32 third round matches finished in straight sets with many winning rather convincingly. Full results from Monday are available here and on my spreadsheet under the 3rd round tab and below are the number of games that the winners dropped.Game Dropped: 0 – [14] Austin Huang 1 – [1] Michael Mmoh, [3] JJ Wolf 2 – [6] Zeke Clark, [8] Trent Bryde, [30] Patrick Kypson3 – [5] Gianni Ross, [16] Alexander Brown 4 – [2] John McNally, [18] Keegan Smith, [20] Sebastian Korda, [29]...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog
Pro Titles/Finals Last Week:Singles: China (CH) – Jason Jung (Michigan) Canada – Jennifer Brady (UCLA) USA – Roberto Quiroz (USC) USA – Caitlin Whoriskey (Tennessee) Italy – Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (North Carolina)Doubles: Italy (CH) – James Cerretani (Brown) USA – Jared Hiltzik (Illinois)/Rhyne Williams (Tennessee) Italy – Catalin-Ionut Gard (Ole Miss)/Ruben Gonzales (Illinois) Finland – Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State)/Herkko Pollanen (Ohio State) Germany – Andreas Mies (Auburn) Latvia – Ewan Moore (Tulane commit) Morocco – Sander Gille (East Tennessee State)Runner-Ups:Singles: USA (ATP)...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog
After spending the day in Kalamazoo yesterday I made my way down to Decatur, Illinois, today to watch the finals of the Ursula Beck Pro Tennis Classic/USA F26 Futures. I was hoping to catch the second and possibly third sets of the doubles final but Jared Hiltzik and Rhyne Williams weren’t very accommodating and finished off Nathan Pasha and Dane Webb 6-0, 6-1 in just 43 minutes. It was Hiltzik’s second career pro doubles title and Williams’s seventh though it was Rhyne’s first since 2013. The singles final matched up 2015 USC graduate Roberto Quiroz and 19 year-old Australian Marc Polmans. Quiroz was looking for his third singles title...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog
All the top seeds took the court today in Kalamazoo for the second round of the Boys 18 National Championships and for the most part they had very little trouble. Each of the top 22 seeds won with 19 of them winning in straight sets however 6 of the bottom 10 were knocked out. Below were the seeded losers with college commitments listed in parenthesis. Seeded Upsets Aleksandar Kovacevic (Illinois) def. [23] Matthew Lord 6-7(3), 6-0, 6-2 John Carlin def. [24] Ryan Seggerman 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 Robert Krill (Wisconsin) def. [25] Jason Lui (Columbia) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 Kristopher Ortega (Illinois) def. [28] Maxwell Freeman 6-4, 6-1 Payton Holden (Princeton) def. [31]...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 6, 2016 | Blog
New Oklahoma women’s coach Audra Cohen announced the hiring of Amy Sargeant as the Sooners new assistant coach. Sargeant played at Florida State from 2010 to 2013 and was the assistant coach at New Mexico last season. OU’s previous assistant Vincent “Boomer” Saia took a job with the Vanderbilt women’s program a few days ago but I haven’t seen an official release yet from the school.Amy Sargeant to join OU’s coaching staff as assistant coach ›› https://t.co/J2htG6PSc8pic.twitter.com/ohXwVFvpVZ— Oklahoma Tennis (@OU_WTennis) August 5, 2016 Virginia Tech women’s coach Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) announced the hiring of Dann Nelson as the Vaqueros new men’s tennis coach. Nelson comes to Edinburg after spending the last 11 seasons in Carbondale as head coach of Southern Illinois. Nelson led SIU to a share of the regular season conference championship last season despite the program spending most of the season on the chopping block due to the state of Illinois’s budget woes. SIU got a one-year reprieve and will be back this fall but Nelson probably made a wise decision to secure his future for many years to come.Welcome to the RGV coach Nelson! We can’t wait to get the season started....
by Bobby Knight | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
New Mexico VP of Athletics Paul Krebs named Stephanie Wooten-Quijada as the Lobo’s new women’s coach. Wooten-Quijada, a 2009 Purdue graduate, resigned as the women’s coach at UTRGV on July 24 after leading the program to an 11-11 record and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Wooten-Quijada replaces Kelsey McKenna who left after one year to take the head coaching position at Wisconsin.Wooten-Quijada Named Head Women’s Tennis Coach At New Mexico https://t.co/Tg6ebYR4ZI— Bobby Knight (@College10s2day) August 4, 2016 Mississippi State men’s head coach Matt Roberts announced the hiring of Matt Walters as the Bulldogs new assistant...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog
We are just two days away from the start of the 2016 USTA Boys National Championships so just as I did last year I thought I’d give everyone a little more background on the field in the 18s division. For many of these guys this will be the end of their junior career with college on the immediate horizon. One of the most interesting things about this tournament is the fact that the winner gets a main draw wild card into the US Open so you have guys that have already turned pro that come back to play for that coveted prize. All rounds up through the semifinals are best of three sets but the finals are best of five sets. Frances Tiafoe won it last year...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog
Florida State head coach Dwayne Hultquist announced the hiring of Ryler DeHeart as the Seminoles new associate head coach. DeHeart played collegiately at Illinois from 2003 to 2006 and then spent the five years afterwards on the pro tour. DeHeart had been the assistant coach under George Husack at Alabama for the last four years so now that means the Crimson Tide are on the market for an assistant. St. Leo Director of Athletics Francis Reidy announced the hiring of Pablo Montana as the Lions new men’s and women’s head coach. Montana, who is a two-time National Coach of the Year, spent the last 12 seasons as the women’s head coach of...
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