by Bobby Knight | Feb 20, 2016 | Blog
Sometimes rematches result in different outcomes and sometimes they don’t – tonight’s Ohio State/Texas A&M match in Columbus turned out to be the latter. These teams met just five days ago in the National Indoors consolation rounds with Ohio State pulling out a 4-3 squeaker but this evening it was all Buckeyes.Last week Texas A&M won the doubles point, though Herkko Pollanen didn’t play, but tonight with Pollanen playing at #1 with Mikael Torpegaard they and the team cruised past A&M.Ohio State swapped Martin Joyce and Ralf Steinbach at #5 and #6 and Hugo Di Feo and Chris Diaz at #2 and #3. Texas A&M swapped Jordi...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog
It’s the first weekend after the National Indoors but there is no time for slowing down. Texas A&M is back on the road and is in Columbus tonight for a rematch against Ohio State (Buckeyes won 4-3 last Sunday) and then on Sunday it’ll be in Champaign to face Illinois (I might make it to this one).There are 7 ranked versus ranked matches on Friday highlighted by #7 A&M and #6 Ohio State but that #50 Indiana/#37 Oregon match has a lot of potential too.#55 South Carolina and #17 San Diego will be in Tampa this weekend to play each other and #14 South Florida. San Diego and South Florida just played last Sunday in a NTI consolation match with...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
We are three days removed from North Carolina’s stunning win over Virginia but I went back and recapped the whole weekend in an article that I did for the Tennis Recruiting Network. If you haven’t already seen it give this link a click.Here are is my top 25 based off what I’ve seen so far – I have notable wins and all losses listed for reference. The number inside [ ] is where I had them last week.1. North Carolina (10-0) [5] – won at Virginia, UCLA, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and Illinois. Tar Heels won the National Team Indoors in unbelievable fashion beating Virginia in Charlottesville. Next...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
The post NTI Oracle ITA men’s rankings are out and North Carolina is sitting pretty at #1 after winning the title. Since there weren’t any published rankings last week we saw a good bit of movement throughout the Top 75 and also a lot of movement within the Top 10.Both UCLA and Wake Forest came up five spots to #4 and #5 while Texas A&M dropped four spots to #7. Oklahoma and USC each dropped three spots to #8 and #9 while Texas Tech entered the top 10 at #10.#56 Wisconsin made the biggest jump by coming up 18 spots from #74 after winning at then #23 Minnesota. #45 Minnesota took the biggest fall after dropping 22 spots due to home losses...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 17, 2016 | Blog
After a tremendous weekend of tennis in Charlottesville it is time to hand out some more hardware. Below is my College Tennis Today National Team Indoors All-Tournament Team along with guys that earned honorable mention. Now just to be clear, this isn’t the official ITA NTI All-Tournament team (which will probably be released on Wednesday/Thursday) although I expect the coaches to agree with what I have listed.The All-Tournament MVP and three of the six singles selections came from North Carolina while Virginia had two guys and UCLA had one. I also listed guys that earned honorable mention but I couldn’t find anyone at #3 singles to fit the bill...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
North Carolina has done it – they’ve snapped Virginia’s 140-match ACC winning streak and they did it in Charlottesville in the finals of the National Team Indoors. It what will go down as one of the all-time classics, North Carolina came back from dropping the doubles point and four first sets to defeat #1 Virginia 4-2.(Picture Courtesy of North Carolina)The doubles point started off fairly promising for North Carolina with the Tar Heels going up early breaks at #1 and #3 but Virginia would quickly erase the deficits. UNC’s #1 team of Brett Clark and Robert Kelly broke Luca Corinteli’s serve from 15-40, after Ryan Shane missed a...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
When Virginia and North Carolina step on the court at 11am it’ll be the first time ever that a pair of ACC schools will play for the Men’s National Team Indoor Championship. It’s North Carolina first appearance in the finals while Virginia will be making its sixth final in the last eight years and seventh overall.Virginia has owned North Carolina over the last 10 years winning the last 15 matches with North Carolina’s last win coming back on April 14th, 2006 (4-3 at UNC). Of course to be fair I have to mention that Virginia has won 140 straight matches against ACC schools with its last loss coming to Duke at the ACC Tournament in April...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
In the first semifinal of the day North Carolina advanced to its first-ever final at the National Team Indoors after coming from behind to beat UCLA 4-2.North Carolina didn’t take the easy way though after dropping the doubles point for the second time in three matches this weekend. UCLA’s new #3 team of Maxime Cressy and Karue Sell knocked off Blaine Boyden and Ronnie Schneider 6-3. Cressy/Sell broke UNC on the deciding point to go up 3-1 then held for 4-1. The teams exchanged holds until UCLA held from 40-15 to win 6-3.North Carolina answered by winning at #2 doubles as Jack Murray and Brayden Schnur defeated Gage Brymer and Austin Rapp 6-4....
by Bobby Knight | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
[3] North Carolina (8-0) vs. [7] UCLA (7-1) – 12pm est – North Carolina is coming off a pretty thorough 4-2 win over Ohio State while UCLA rode the wave of momentum to get past Texas A&M 4-2. It’ll be interesting to see if either team makes a change at the bottom of the singles lineup after each team’s #6 took it on the chin yesterday. I think UNC probably sticks with Kodali since he had a pretty convincing win the previous day while I look for Billy Martin to give Austin Rapp another try at #6 after Joey Di Giulio came up well short yesterday against Lunkin.Overall Record: North Carolina 8-0, UCLA 7-1Indoors Record: North...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
I was fortunate enough to return to the Varsity Tennis Center to watch The Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Vanderbilt Commodores in an all-Top 6 matchup.The Buckeyes, coming off of their stellar ITA Indoor debut, hosted a rematch against reigning NCAA champions Vanderbilt. OSU, then-#16, upset the top-ranked Commodores 4-3 in the NTI quarterfinals with Miho Kowase defeating Courtney Colton 6-4 in the third set. The Buckeyes moved to another program-high (No.6) ranking this week, while VU dropped to No.5. Another tight encounter was expected and the match was a 3.5 hour battle between two teams that could vie for the NCAA title.Doubles: Vanderbilt captured...
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