by Bobby Knight | Jul 23, 2016 | Blog
There was plenty of action today on the pro circuit but before I get into those results I wanted to give everyone an update on Luke Siegel who is the 10-year old son of former Texas Tech men’s coach Tim Siegel. I’m sure many know the story but for those that don’t Luke was involved in a golf cart accident almost a year ago (July 28, 2015) which caused serious head and chest trauma and left Luke with an anoxic brain injury. The Siegels were told that Luke would never regain the use of his limbs, eyes, or voice but he has managed to make progress over the last several months. KAMC TV in Lubbock did a story on Luke and the community support...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog
North Carolina junior Brayden Schnur announced today that he would be foregoing his final year of eligibility and turning pro effective immediately. Schnur compiled a 49-25 overall singles record, 38-22 in dual-match play, with all but three dual-matches coming at the top spot in the singles lineup. Schnur battled injuries in each of the last two seasons but when he was healthy he was a very tough out. Brayden’s top individual accomplishments came during the fall of 2014 (only fall he played) when he went 11-0 and won the prestigious USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. Brayden will make his pro debut on Saturday afternoon against...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog
Ole Miss released it’s schedule for the 2016-17 season and the dual-match portion begins with a trip to Hawaii. Ole Miss will play SMU during the ITA Kickoff Weekend and then depending on the outcome of that match they’d meet Texas A&M or Baylor. The Rebels only other substantial non-conference opponent will be North Carolina with the Rebs going to Chapel Hill the week of the National Team Indoors. The Toby Hansson coached team will have to replace Stefan Lindmark who played at No. 1 most of the season as well as Vinod Gowda who started in two SEC matches.
by Bobby Knight | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog
The weather in Greater St. Louis has been extremely hot and humid this week but that hasn’t slowed down 2013 Rice graduate Jonathan Chang as he has blazed his way into the quarterfinals at the $25K Godfrey, Illinois, USA F24 Futures. Chang came into this week’s Futures event having won just one main draw match but he’s managed to come through qualies and knock off a pair off a pair of guys that spent most of last year in the ITA top 10. Chang defeated Georgia Tech’s Chris Eubanks 6-2, 6-3 in the opening round then today he came back from a 5-2 third set deficit to beat recent Tulane graduate Dominik Koepfer 6-7(3), 6-2, 7-5 in a match...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog
Seton Hall Athletic Director Patrick Lyons announced that former UCLA All-American Riza Zalameda has been named as the Pirates new women’s head coach. Zalemeda, who graduated from UCLA in 2008, has spent the last four years as an assistant coach at Columbia. Zalameda replaces Greg Wyzykowski who resigned after going 64-111 (.366) over the last nine seasons at the South Orange, New Jersey, school.Excited to welcome Riza Zalameda to the family as our new @SHU_Tennis head coach! https://t.co/hOeqCqWJ5k #HALLin pic.twitter.com/QalIqyuVNR Seton Hall Athletics (@SHUAthletics) July 20, 2016Nebraska-Omaha Athletics Director Trev Alberts announced that recent...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog
TheITA Summer Circuitfinished up its fourth of six weeks with ten different sites hosting regionals. Below are the singles winners and you can view the doubles winners through each draw link. Here are the seriespoints racethrough the third week and once these week four results are added in Northwestern’s Jason Seidman will be in first place by one point after a regional for the third week in a row. Wake Forest commit Sean Hill also won his third regional in four weeks and finished as runner-up the other week.Alabama – Draw Size W-45 ; M-60M – Michael Durham (Auburn commit) d. [11] Jackson Wood (HS Class of ’17) 6-4, 6-1W – [1]...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog
New Mexico Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs announced the hiring of Ben Dunbar as New Mexico’s new men’s head coach. Dunbar, who played at New Mexico from 2008 to 2012, was an assistant coach at New Mexico for the last two seasons. Dunbar replaces Bart Scott who resigned last month after two years at the helm of the Lobos.Congrats to former player & asst. coach Ben Dunbar, who was named as head coach of New Mexico men’s tennis! #GoLoboshttps://t.co/y6oNgPEaG3— New Mexico Lobos (@UNMLOBOS) July 18, 2016I mentioned on Saturday that former Georgia graduate Wil Spencer decided to start playing again after retiring...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog
Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech ’16) capped off a weekend of firsts by winning pro singles title No. 1 with a straight set win over #608 Hugo Grenier at the $10K Idanha-A-Nova, Portugal, F8 Futures (Hard). Monteiro had break points on each of Grenier’s four first set service games and broke on two of them to take the opening set 6-3. Monteiro broke from 15/40 to go up 2-1 in the second set and then broke again at love to go up 5-2. Monteiro served out the match at love to take it 6-3, 6-2. Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State Rising Soph) won her second career pro singles title with a straight set win over Erin Routliffe (Alabama Rising Sr) at...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 17, 2016 | Blog
#500 Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) won his second singles title this year and fourth of his career with a straight set win over #357 Stefanos Tsitsipas at the $10K Kramsach, Austria, F2 Futures (Clay). Hanfmann broke Tsitsipas to start the match and made the break lead hold up to take the opening set 6-4. Hanfmann broke for 2-1 in the second and made that break hold up as well to close out the 6-4, 6-4 win in 1 hour and 8 minutes. Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech ’16) advanced to his first-career Futures final with a tough three-set win over #599 Frederico Gil in the semifinals of the $10K Idanha-A-Nova, Portugal,...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 16, 2016 | Blog
South Carolina men’s head coach Josh Goffi announced the hiring of Kyle Bailey as the Gamecocks new assistant coach. Bailey, who was the head coach at Monmouth last season, replaces Ryan Young who left two weeks ago to take the assistant job at Clemson.South Carolina women’s head coach Kevin Epley announced that Mia Horvit (UTR 11.32) has signed a National Letter of Intent to play at South Carolina next season. Horvit was ranked as high as No 5 in her high school class as a sophomore and junior per The Tennis Recruiting Network and was ranked No. 11 last season.Eudice Chong (Wesleyan Rising Jr) and Katherine Ip (Rice Rising Sr) won the doubles...
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