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Alabama Holds Off ETSU; Baylor Sweeps Sherwood; MLK Invitational Wraps Up; Great Start to Aussie Open

Alabama missed out on last year’s NCAA Tournament by one spot so in the offseason men’s head coach George Husack overhauled the roster and brought in five newcomers. On Monday afternoon all five of those newcomers were in the lineup and played a pivotal roll in the Crimson Tide’s tight 4-2 win over East Tennessee State. The doubles point was decided in a tiebreak at No. 2 after ETSU’s Diego Nunez and Robert Herrera pulled off an upset at No. 1 and Alabama freshmen Thibault Cancel and Zhe Zhou won at No. 3. Alabama freshmen Alexey Nesterov and Edson Ortiz would pull out the tiebreak at No. 2 by a 7-2 score to give Alabama the early 1-0...

Coaching Updates & Other News & Notes

Southern Illinois women’s head coach Audra Anderson was promoted to the Director of Tennis and will now assume the role as the new men’s head coach after the departure of Dann Nelson to UTRGV. Anderson has gone 140-83 (.627) in nine seasons at SIU which gives her the best winning percentage in school history. Jonny Rigby, who graduated this past May, will serve as a graduate assistant for a program that is now going year-to-year due to the financial woes in the state of Illinois. Normally I add a picture when the school puts its news release on Twitter or Facebook but as far as I can see they didn’t put it on social media anywhere which is...

Wooten-Quijada to New Mexico, Assistant Updates, Bucca to Court, Decatur Futures, Maryland Eastern Shore Drops Men’s Tennis

New Mexico VP of Athletics Paul Krebs named Stephanie Wooten-Quijada as the Lobo’s new women’s coach. Wooten-Quijada, a 2009 Purdue graduate, resigned as the women’s coach at UTRGV on July 24 after leading the program to an 11-11 record and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Wooten-Quijada replaces Kelsey McKenna who left after one year to take the head coaching position at Wisconsin.Wooten-Quijada Named Head Women’s Tennis Coach At New Mexico https://t.co/Tg6ebYR4ZI— Bobby Knight (@College10s2day) August 4, 2016 Mississippi State men’s head coach Matt Roberts announced the hiring of Matt Walters as the Bulldogs new assistant...

Coaching News, Eubanks/Kennedy Win Opener in Atlanta, Roster Additions, College ATP Rankings

Florida State head coach Dwayne Hultquist announced the hiring of Ryler DeHeart as the Seminoles new associate head coach. DeHeart played collegiately at Illinois from 2003 to 2006 and then spent the five years afterwards on the pro tour. DeHeart had been the assistant coach under George Husack at Alabama for the last four years so now that means the Crimson Tide are on the market for an assistant. St. Leo Director of Athletics Francis Reidy announced the hiring of Pablo Montana as the Lions new men’s and women’s head coach. Montana, who is a two-time National Coach of the Year, spent the last 12 seasons as the women’s head coach of...

Thursday Conference Tournament Results

Several conference tournaments got underway on Wednesday, with an abbreviated schedule, but they really got going on Thursday with the ACC and SEC having four matches each.All four matches at the SEC Tournament in Columbia, South Carolina, were hotly contested with South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, and Kentucky the day’s winners.The four matches at the ACC were quite as suspenseful with Virginia Tech rolling over Miami 4-0, Georgia Tech pulling away from Louisville 4-1, Notre Dame holding off Duke 4-1, and NC State edging Clemson 4-2.Both of the matches in Ojai were 4-0 shutouts with Cal and Stanford overwhelming Washington and Oregon.Due to...