by Bobby Knight | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
The ITA Summer Circuit finished up its sixth and final week with nine different sites hosting regionals. Below are the singles winners and you can view the doubles winners through each draw link. Here are the series points race through the fifth week. Cal State LA – Draw Size W-64 ; M-64 M – [8] Josh Ortlip (Cal Poly) d. [13] Arturo Kam (HS Class of ’17) 6-1, 6-4 W – [1] Ena Shibahara (UCLA commit) d. [13] Seira Shimizu (HS Class of ’17) 6-1, 6-1Cornell – Draw Size W-30 ; M-24 M – [2] Harry Wang (HS Class of ’17) d. [1] Ryan Fishback (HS Class of ’20) w/o inj. W – [2]...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
As Peter Smith, USC’s Men’s Tennis head coach puts it, “In college tennis, if you don’t have a SmartCourt, somebody else does.” PlaySight now has SmartCourts and LiveCourts installed with close to 20 collegiate programs across the nation, including Oklahoma State, Ohio State, North Carolina, and Cal-Berkeley, among others. Winning is the name of the game in college tennis, and PlaySight is giving players, coaches, teams, and programs a performance edge – from on-court play to video review to streaming and recruiting.Latest News PlaySight’s newest college partners this summer are Stanford University (installed in...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
What had already been a good week for Chris Eubanks turned into a great week after the Georgia Tech rising junior upset world #104 Thiago Monteiro to qualify for the main draw at the BB&T ATP 250 Atlanta Open. Eubanks had to earn a spot in the qualifying field by winning a Wild Card playoff over teammate Cole Fiegel and 2013 Samford graduate Zac Dunkle and then he had to beat world #210 Tommy Paul in the opening round of qualies just to get to today’s match against Monteiro.Eubanks earned the only break of the first set when he broke Monteiro’s 2-2 service game to go ahead 3-2 and three holds later he had the opening set 6-4. Eubanks broke...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 30, 2016 | Blog
#474 Mikelis Libietis (Tennessee ’15) won his tenth straight match and second straight Futures after defeating #1626 Alberto Brizzi 7-6(6), 7-6(6) in the finals of the $10K Futures in Parnu, Estonia. Libietis broke Brizzi to start the match and then held in a four-deuce game to go ahead 2-0. Brizzi took the next four games to open up a 4-2 lead but Libietis took the next two to even it at 4-4. It stayed on serve until the tiebreak and then Libietis won the pivotal 6-6 point on Brizzi’s serve and then took the next point to take the opening set tiebreak 8-6. The second set started with six straight holds then Brizzi broke from 15/40 to go up 4-3....
by Bobby Knight | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog
Friday was a busy day for the coaching carousel with Cal Irvine, Old Dominion, and Iowa each announcing head coaching hires. UC Irvine announced that Mike Saunders, who served as the interim men’s head coach last season, has been named as the permanent men’s head coach. Saunders, who is a 1990 UC Irvine graduate, took over as the interim coach last October after Trevor Kronemann, 117-126 (.481), stepped down to become the Director of Junior Tennis at the Southern California Tennis Association (SCTA). Saunders led the Anteaters to a 17-9 record last season before they bowed out to UCSB in the Big West semifinals.Proud to welcome the newest head...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog
Drake Associate Athletic Director Brian Brown announced the hiring of Mai-Ly Tran as the Bulldogs new women’s coach. Tran, who played at Cal State Fullerton from 2004 to 2007, comes to Des Moines after serving as an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton for the last three seasons. John Hollimon was the interim coach last season and led Drake to a 15-12 record and a semifinal appearance at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.Mai-Ly Tran has been named head @DrakeWTEN coach. #DURiseUphttps://t.co/zCyhy9Yor5pic.twitter.com/Gx8ieScKjg— Drake Athletics (@DUBulldogs) July 28, 2016 Kentucky women’s head coach Carlos Drada announced the hiring...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 27, 2016 | Blog
Norfolk State Athletics Director Marty Miller announced the hiring of Darryl Cummings as the Spartans new men’s and women’s head coach. Cummings was most recently the men’s and women’s coach at D3’s Virginia Wesleyan during the 2014 and 2015 seasons but he’s most known for his 20 years at Old Dominion from 1992-2011. Cummings replaces Worth Richardson who stepped down after two seasons to take a position at the Smith Stearns Tennis Academy.A big welcome to new #NSU tennis head coach Darryl Cummings!! ?https://t.co/Hgjj44UJYqpic.twitter.com/0jcYTrBBJl— NSU Athletics (@NSUSpartans) July 27, 2016 Georgia Tech rising...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
As we head into August the coaching carousel should start slowing down with the beginning of the fall semester just around the corner. Two more women’s positions were filled in the last few days which leaves the number of openings on the women’s side in the single digits. Bowling Green State Director of Athletics Bob Moosbrugger announced the hiring of Stephanie Damacio as the Falcons new women’s head coach. Damacio, a 2011 Wichita State graduate, had been the assistant coach at BGSU for the last two seasons with the squad going 2-36 (.053) in that time frame. Damacio replaced Olga Elkin who departed for Nebraska-Omaha after a rocky two...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
The ITA Summer Circuit finished up its fifth of six weeks with nine different sites hosting regionals. Below are the singles winners and you can view the doubles winners through each draw link. Here are the series points race through the fourth week. Wake Forest commit Sean Hill will take over the top spot in the men’s race after a semifinal showing at the Azusa Pacific regional.Azusa Pacific – Draw Size W-54 ; M-64 M – [6] Josh Ortlip (Cal Poly) d. [5] Robert Baylon (HS Class of ’18) W – Seira Shimizu (HS Class of ’17) d. [8] Margo Pletcher (Utah) 7-5, 6-2Florida – Draw Size W-49 ;...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog
Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11) won his 11th career pro singles title with a straight set win over Facundo Mena in the finals of the $25K USA F24 Futures in Godfrey, Illinois. The match started just after 10 a.m. central with temperatures already approaching 90 degrees and the heat index just short of 100. Sandgren dominated the opening set winning 29 of 41 points in route to taking a 6-0 set in 31 minutes. More than 5 of those minutes came when Sandgren took a medical timeout, after going up 3-0, due to a blister ripping open on his right hand during the opening game of the match. The opening game tied for the longest game of the match with Sandgren...
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