by Bobby Knight | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
The top two seeds at the Big West Tournament advanced to the championship match with No. 1 UC Santa Barbara shutting out No. 4 UC Irvine while No. 2 Cal Poly gutted out a 4-2 win over No. 3 UC Davis. UCSB and Cal Poly met in the regular season finale last Saturday with UCSB coming out on top by a 5-2 score in a match that was played at Cal Poly.UCSB took the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and No. 3 then the Gauchos picked up straight set wins from Morgan Mays, Cody Rakela, and Teague Hamilton at 3, 5, and 6. UCSB was in control at No. 2 when it was abandoned due to the clinch while Irvine was up at No. 1 and No. 4 had just split sets.(1) UC SANTA BARBARA 4,...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 28, 2016 | Blog
Florida moved at No. 1 after winning the SEC Tournament while Cal fell to No. 2. North Carolina dropped one spot to No. 3, Georgia stayed at No. 4, and Ohio State and Vanderbilt swapped spots at No. 5 and No. 6. Miami stays at No. 7, Pepperdine moved up one spot to No. 8, Duke dropped one spot to No. 9, and Auburn moved into the top 10 for the first time in school history.This set of rankings used each team’s nine best wins as will next week’s unpublished rankings which will be used to make the at-large selections for the NCAA Tournament.The following teams moved up at least 5 spots versus the last rankings – movement...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog
Virginia stays at the top spot for the third week in a row despite the loss to Wake Forest in the finals of the ACC Championship. UCLA and North Carolina stay at No. 2 and No. 3 while Ohio State and TCU swap spots at No. 4 and No. 5. Wake Forest and Georgia swap spots at No. 6 and No. 7 while Texas Tech moves up to No. 8. Florida moves up two spots to No. 9 and Oklahoma remains at No. 10. For further details on why the teams moved check out my profiles on each team further down below.This set of rankings used each team’s nine best wins as will next week’s unpublished rankings which will be used to make the at-large selections...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog
Virginia stays at No. 1 despite falling in the finals of the ACC Championship to Wake Forest. UVA’s big win over North Carolina is what solidified their spot at the top though if UNC would have won that much they would have jumped up to No. 1. UCLA stays at No. 2 after winning the Pac-12 Championship with North Carolina staying at #3 after a semifinal showing at the ACC Championships. Ohio State rises one spot to No. 4 after beating both Northwestern and Illinois while TCU drops one spot to No. 5 after losing at Texas Tech.There were some teams that improved their chances of qualifying for the NCAAs while there were others that really hurt...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog
A good crowd of around 100 gathered in Memphis for the finals of the American Conference Championship where South Florida was looking to win the title for the third consecutive year. South Florida and Tulsa met just nine days prior with USF winning 7-0 though Tulsa sat its top singles player Or Ram-Harel so this one figured to be much closer.The top seeded Bulls got off to a good start at No. 1 doubles while Tulsa went up an early break at No. 2. USF’s Vadym Kalyuzhnyy and Sasha Gozun broke on the no-ad point when Gozun cleaned it up the net to make it 4-2USF break on the no-ad point to go 4-2 on 1 pic.twitter.com/3XksKBhOVh Bobby Knight...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog
Sunday was a tremendous day for college tennis fans all across the country. There were over 1700 fans jammed into the Cary Tennis Park for the finals of the ACC Championship and probably at least five times that many watching throughout the country on ESPN3’s national telecast. The final of the SEC Championships was also broadcast on ESPN3 while the final of the AAC Championships was broadcast on the American Network.Wake Forest, Florida, Texas Tech, and South Florida may have been the winners of the day but the biggest winners were the supporters of college tennis. They were treated to a high-quality product that kept them on the edge of their seats and...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 24, 2016 | Blog
In the late match on Saturday night it was No. 2 UCLA gutting out a 4-1 win over No. 16 Cal to win the Pac-12 Championship. The Bruins played a sharp doubles point and picked up a 6-1 win from Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Redlicki at No. 1 and a 6-3 win from Austin Rapp and Max Cressy at No. 3.Cressy/Rapp defeat Engsted/Nishimura 6-3 and Bruins take the doubles point over Cal pic.twitter.com/rEwqQBXZzL UCLA Men’s Tennis (@uclatennis) April 24, 2016Cal regained the momentum in singles and took four opening sets but closing them out in straight sets would prove to be a challenging task.UCLA’s Martin Redlicki was off the court rather...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 24, 2016 | Blog
Semifinal Saturday was good as expected in the ACC with an almost three rain delay adding to the suspense. North Carolina was looking for its third of the season over No. 1 Virginia and for the better part of four plus hours it looked like they’d get it.In the high-profile doubles matchup at No. 1 it was the ITA No. 3 team of Brett Clark and Robert Kelly rolling over the ITA No. 2 team of Ryan Shane and Luca Corinteli. Clark and Kelly broke UVA to start the match and then broke again to go up 5-2. Robert Kelly would serve it out to give UNC the 6-2.UVA’s Collin Altamirano and J.C. Aragone jumped out to an early 4-1 lead at No. 3 but...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 23, 2016 | Blog
It was a beautiful Saturday morning in Memphis with blue skies paving the way for a pair of action packed semifinals that were played simultaneously with a 9 a.m. central start. All 12 courts were available on Saturday after only having 10 available on Friday due to a crack near the center line on court 1.The top-seed South Florida faced the No. 4 seed Tulane in one of the semifinals. South Florida had to feel fairly confident coming into the match because they just beat Tulane 5-2 less than two weeks ago in a match that was played at Tulane.It looked like South Florida was going to run away with the doubles point but the Bulls would have trouble closing it...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 23, 2016 | Blog
It was an extremely long day of tennis in Columbia, South Carolina, as rain pushed the schedule at the SEC Tournament back significantly and ultimately shifted play indoors. One of the opening matches of the day, which started at 9am ET, would be a barnburner as South Carolina was trying to pull off its third top-20 upset in the last five days.The Gamecocks started off the morning by taking the doubles point over No. 13 Texas A&M with Gabriel Friedrich and Harrison O’Keefe winning the deciding tiebreak at No. 1 by a 7-1 score.Texas A&M rebounded in singles by taking four opening sets but South Carolina’s Andrew Schafer was the first one to...
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