by Bobby Knight | Mar 9, 2016 | Blog
The third computer rankings of the year are out and while there was still a good bit of movement it wasn’t as drastic as in the past two weeks.North Carolina remains at #1 while Ohio State rises up from #4 to #2 after getting the big road win at Oklahoma. TCU stays at #3 while Virginia drops from #2 to #4 with Oklahoma State staying at #5.Kentucky and Tulane were the biggest movers in the top 25 with Kentucky rising from #22 to #12 while Tulane rose from #35 to #21. NC State came back up 13 spots from #40 to #27 after winning at Wake Forest and SMU went from unranked to #37 after beating both Wichita State and Tulsa last week.Old Dominion, LSU, Iowa, and...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
North Carolina stays at No. 1 for another week while Ohio State jumps up from No. 4 to No. 2 after a nice road win over Oklahoma on Sunday. TCU stays at No. 3 while Virginia falls from No. 2 to No. 4 due to a few of its best wins falling the previous week.This week’s rankings take into account each teams five best wins just as last week’s ranking did and just as next week’s rankings will. Kentucky was the big mover inside the top 20 with the Wildcats expected to rise from No. 22 to No. 12 after picking up wins over Arkansas and Ole Miss. Tulane will move up from No. 35 to No. 22 after picking up nice ranked wins over Memphis and LSU. NC...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
In what had to be the match of the day it was No. 8 Texas A&M outlasting No. 30 Florida 4-3 in 3 hours and 51 minutes. Florida jumped out to the early lead by taking the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and No. 3 but Texas A&M came out ready to go in singles and took five opening sets.Jordi Arconada was off the court first with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Chase Perez-Blanco at No. 3 but Florida’s Gordon Watson answered with a 6-4, 6-4 win over AJ Catanzariti at No. 5.Texas A&M senior Jackson Withrow evened the match at 2-2 with a 7-6, 6-2 win over Florida freshman McClain Kessler at No. 6 but Florida retook the lead when freshman Alfredo Perez...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 6, 2016 | Blog
A couple of good ones on the docket for today. Texas A&M and Florida were voted #2 and #3 in the preseason SEC coaches poll while Oklahoma and Ohio State were in everyone’s preseason top 10.#30 Florida (6-3) at #8 Texas A&M (12-3) – 1pm est/12pm cst – Live Scoring & Video – Florida is coming off a 4-3 road win at LSU in a match where Florida dropped the doubles point but won the first four completed singles matches. Texas A&M is coming off a comfortable 6-1 road win at Auburn. Texas A&M is very, very tough to beat at home so Florida will have to bring its A+ game to come away with a win.Projected...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 6, 2016 | Blog
The featured match of the day took place in Tampa as No. 3 TCU rolled into town to face No. 17 South Florida. South Florida got the win at No. 1 doubles but TCU came back and won at No. 2 and No. 3 with Hudson Blake and Reese Stalder clinching the point 7-6(1) at No. 2.Each team picked up three first sets in singles but South Florida struck first when Justin Roberts closed out Eduardo Nava 6-2, 6-2 at No. 4. TCU freshman Alex Rybakov put the Horned Frogs back ahead 2-1 when he ran through Dominic Cotrone 6-3, 6-2 at No. 2 and a short while later Jerry Lopez would make it 3-1 with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Peter Bertran at No. 5.Guillermo Nunez clinched TCU’s...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 5, 2016 | Blog
While conference play got underway in the SEC and ACC there was a non-conference battle brewing in Des Moines between #36 Drake and #33 Iowa. The two schools, separated by just 115 miles, are the only two schools in the state of Iowa that play Division 1 men’s tennis so bragging rights were at stake Friday night. A boisterous crowd of close to 200, with a decent amount of black and gold, was on hand to see if Drake could make it five in a row over the Hawkeyes.Drake got off to a good start at #3 doubles when Ben Stride and Calum MacGeoch jumped out to a 3-0 lead on Iowa’s Robin Haden and Nils Hallestrand. Drake would hold on the deciding point to...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 4, 2016 | Blog
The weekend is here and while there aren’t as many high profile matches as in past weeks there is still plenty of quality tennis to be played.SEC conference play gets underway this weekend with a big match taking place on Sunday in College Station between #8 Texas A&M and #30 Florida. These two teams were selected as the preseason #2 and #3 by the SEC coaches so it’ll be a chance for one of them to get a leg up on the other. Of course before Florida gets a crack at A&M it’ll have to take care of business in Baton Rouge on Friday night against #32 LSU. The Bayou Bengals have been known to give higher ranked teams some trouble at home...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 4, 2016 | Blog
In an under the radar top 20 clash out in La Jolla it was #5 Oklahoma State edging #18 Cal 4-3. Oklahoma State took the doubles pint with 6-3 wins at #1 and #3 but Cal came back strong in singles and took four opening sets.Oklahoma State only took two first sets in singles but both Julian Cash and Lukas Finzelberg managed to finish in straight sets. Cash upset the ITA #7 Andre Goransson 6-3, 6-2 at #1 while Finzelberg got the best of J.T. Nishimura 6-4, 6-3 at #6. Oklahoma State’s lead was now 3-0 but it’d be a while before they could find its fourth point because Cal was in control on each of the remaining four courts.Lucas Gerch...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog
It had been 12 years since Tulane last defeated LSU but the Green Wave were able to get it done on Wednesday afternoon with a 4-2 win.LSU took the doubles point with wins at #1 and #2 but Tulane rebounded in singles by picking up five first sets. Tulane’s Constantin Schmitz rolled over Justin Butsch 6-0, 6-2 at #2 but LSU went back ahead when Gabor Csonka beat Alex Van Cott 6-2, 6-0 at #4. Tulane’s Chi-Shan Jao evened the match at 2-2 with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Simon Freund at #5.Each of the three remaining matches would go the distance. The current ITA #1 Dominik Koepfer would put Tulane ahead 3-2 with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 win over Jordan Daigle at #1...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
Last season USC won all three meetings against UCLA, but so far this season it’s Bruins 1 and Trojans 0. UCLA claimed this year’s first edition of the Battle for LA by taking out #12 USC 5-2.UCLA took the doubles point for the 10th time in 12 tries but it didn’t do it with a win at #1. USC’s Nick Crystal and Laurens Verboven surprised the ITA #3 team of Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Redlicki 6-4. Crystal/Verboven jumped out to a 4-1 lead before McDonald/Redlick won three straight to even it at 4-4. Crystal/Verboven held for 5-4 and then broke to win it 6-4.UCLA’s #2 team of Karue Sell and Joseph Di Giulio were the first off the...
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