by Bobby Knight | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog
College Tennis Today’s mission is to help promote and grow the sport of college tennis.The primary focus of the blog will be the men’s game but I will try to highlight some of the top women’s programs as well from time to time. The biggest reason I’m doing the blog is because there just aren’t that many places out there to find information about college tennis. I know there is a passionate fan base out there that is thirsting for more information so hopefully I’ll help quench that thirst as much as I can.The more interest and excitement in College Tennis the better because with more and more men’s programs getting...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog
Who says you can’t come home again – certainly not Danielle McNamara after she named as the new head coach at Yale. McNamara was the head coach at Yale from 2006 to 2014 before leaving for personal reasons and then ending up at Texas. She spent one year at Texas, going 10-11 and finished ranked #37, but missed out on the NCAAs due to the dreaded .500 rule. Shortly after the season she resigned to go back to Connecticut to start Little Rockets Tennis. Her resignation at Texas was partly and possibly largely due to the lack of a facility and the penny pinching that was going on under now former Athletic Director Steve Patterson. For full...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog
All 15 sectionals of the US Open National Playoff have been completed so now those winners will meet in another tournament to determine who gets wild cards into the 2016 US Open. The tournament will take place in New Haven, Connecticut during the WTA’s Connecticut Open from August 19-27. Each draw will have 16 entries so that means at least one sectional runner-up will make it in.The Men’s and Women’s Singles Championships will take place August 19-22 with the winners earning wild cards into the US Open Qualifying Tournament. Below are the 15 men’s sectional winners sorted by Universal Tennis Rating (UTR). Jesse Witten, Martin Joyce,...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog
It was a tremendous week on the pro tour with four guys winning singles titles and another nine winning doubles titles. If you forgot to check out my Saturday recap may sure you give that a read to see how Steve Johnson, Benjamin Lock, and Roberto Cid won singles titles and Nate Lammons and Dane Webb won doubles titles.$25K Tulsa, OK, USA F21 (Hard) – TCU rising junior Cameron Norrie won his second career Futures singles title with a quick 53-minute win over Ryan Haviland (Stanford ’02). Haviland held in a three-deuce game to start the match but Norrie won the next nine games to take an insurmountable 6-1, 3-0 lead. Haviland held from 40/30 to...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog
Saturday was a great day for former collegians with Steve Johnson, Benjamin Lock, and Roberto Cid each winning pro singles titles.ATP 250 Nottingham, Great Britain (Grass) – Steve Johnson (USC ’12) won his first-ever ATP level singles title after knocking off #25 Pablo Cuevas in straight sets. There were no breaks of serve in the opening set but Cuevas got the first mini-break in tiebreak and led 3-1. Johnson took the next four points to go up 5-3 and would end up taking the tiebreak 7-5. Johnson opened up a 4-2 lead in the second set but Cuevas fought off a break point to hold in a two-deuce game, broke from 30/40, and then held at...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 25, 2016 | Blog
The coaching carousel spun so fast this afternoon that the top popped right off and I’ve called a mechanic to get it running again. The first shoe to drop came in Ann Arbor where Michigan announced its new head coach would be none other than Adam Steinberg. Steinberg accepted the job at Arizona State just nine days ago but apparently within the last 24 hours he decided he wanted to stay at Michigan. Michigan’s release said Steinberg contacted them to see if he could return while Arizona State’s release said Steinberg told them he couldn’t continue as its head coach for personal reasons.I’m sure those personal reasons will...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog
The final round of qualies at Wimbledon was washed out on Thursday but play rocked on at Pro Circuit events across the globe. Before I dive into those Futures results I wanted to give congratulations to Florida State commit Alex Knaff and NC State commit Alexis Galarneau for picking up their first ATP points earlier in the week.Knaff picked up his point on Wednesday with a 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over #1671 Mason Recci at the $10K Havre, Belgium, F2 Futures (Clay). Knaff’s attempt at picking up another point came up short when he fell to former East Carolina #1 Joran Vliegen 6-2, 6-4.Galarneau won his opening round match on Tuesday with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog
The coaching carousel kept spinning on Wednesday with Old Dominion head coach Aljosa Piric named as the new head coach at Miami (FL). Piric had been ODU’s head coach for the last five years and was named the Wilson/ITA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year this past season after guiding the Monarchs to a 21-5 record and a national ranking of #47. This past season was ODU’s best in Piric’s tenure with the Monarchs making it to the finals of the Conference USA Tournament before falling to Rice (host). Piric’s five-year record in Norfolk was 76-35 (21-5, 16-3, 12-10, 14-7, 13-10) however ODU was unable to reach the NCAA Tournament in any of...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog
Wimbledon qualies officially got underway on Monday but several matches were pushed back until today due to rain. Former college players performed pretty well today going 6-6 although there were two head-to-head matches that guaranteed at least two winners. Austin Krajicek won the closest match of the day by knocking off former Tennessee All-American JP Smith 11-9 in the third. The only break of serve in the final set came when Smith got broke from 15/40 while serving at 9-10.Former Memphis Tiger Joe Salisbury, ATP #706, won his first-ever qualifying match at a Grand Slam with a come from behind 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-3 win over ATP #163 Alessandro Giannessi. It...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog
Jeremy Feldman was named as the new head coach at Charlotte after serving as Tony Bresky’s assistant coach at Wake Forest for the last two years. Feldman is a 2011 Cornell graduate who also served as a volunteer assistant at Wake Forest in 2012-13 and then was Danny Westerman’s assistant coach at Denver during the 2013-14 season.Jeremy Feldman (Picture Via Wake Forest)Charlotte has been playing tennis since 1964 but it has only made it to the NCAA Tournament once in 2007 which also happened to be the year it claimed its one and only conference championship. Charlotte opened the $5M Halton-Wagner Tennis Complex in 2012 so from a facility standpoint...
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