by Bobby Knight | Oct 18, 2017 | Blog
This past week was a good one for recent NCAA singles champions with the 2016 champ Mackenzie McDonald winning the $100K Fairfield Challenger while the 2017 champ Thai Kwiatkowski won the $25K Houston Futures. Prior to last week McDonald’s best performance at the Challenger-level was the semifinals but he plowed past that point with a straight set win over Australia’s Christopher O’Connell and then in the finals he defeated Bradley Klahn 6-4, 6-2. McDonald earned a $14,400 payday plus he picked up 90 ATP ranking points which moved him up to a new career-high ranking of 164. .@mackiemacster reflects on his maiden #ATPChallenger title...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
The Wimbledon main draws were released on Friday with 34 players with college ties set to compete at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. There were 23 former college players in the singles qualifying draws but Irina Falconi was the only one to come through with the former Yellow Jacket qualifying with a straight set win over Mariana Duque-Marino. Falconi’s reward for qualifying will be a match against the top seed and last year’s runner-up Angelique Kerber.There will be four former college players in the men’s singles draw and two in the women’s singles draw. The men’s doubles draw has 25 former college players while the...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 19, 2016 | Blog
13 players with college ties won pro events last week with another 15 finishing as runner-up. Wil Spencer (Georgia ’12) won his third career Futures singles title with a straight set win over Illinois junior Aron Hiltzik at the $25K USA F31 Futures in Houston. Spencer broke Hiltzik from 15/40 to take the first set 6-4 and then after falling behind 3-1 in the second Spencer reeled off five straight games to close it out 6-4, 6-3 in 1 hour and 18 minutes. Spencer is expected to rise from 730 to around 585 in next week’s rankings while Hiltzik will shoot up from 1580 to around 885.Rhyne Williams (Tennessee) and Hans Hach (Abliene Christian ’13)...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog
The first full weekend of Fall Tournament action is in the books – below are the flight winners or if the tournament wasn’t in a flight format the Day 3 results are listed. Palmas Del Mar – Puerto Rico – Georgia, Florida State, Mercer, and Illinois. Singles Championship MatchAron Hiltzik (Illinois) def. Wayne Montgomery (UGA), 6-7, 6-3, 1-0 Day 3 Singles ResultsRobert Loeb (UGA) def. Ruben Vanoppen (Mercer), 6-2, 6-3Andy Martinez (UGA) def. Jordan Mark (Mercer), 6-0, 6-1Nathan Ponwith (UGA) def. Jack Haffey (FSU), 6-1, ret. Samuel Dromsky (UGA) def. Sam Fried (Mercer), 6-0, 6-0Emil Reinberg (UGA) def. Jose...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog
The first full weekend of Fall Tournament action is in the books – below are the flight winners or if the tournament wasn’t in a flight format the Day 3 results are listed. Palmas Del Mar – Puerto Rico – Georgia, Florida State, Mercer, and Illinois.Singles Championship MatchAron Hiltzik (Illinois) def. Wayne Montgomery (UGA), 6-7, 6-3, 1-0 Day 3 Singles ResultsRobert Loeb (UGA) def. Ruben Vanoppen (Mercer), 6-2, 6-3Andy Martinez (UGA) def. Jordan Mark (Mercer), 6-0, 6-1Nathan Ponwith (UGA) def. Jack Haffey (FSU), 6-1, ret. Samuel Dromsky (UGA) def. Sam Fried (Mercer), 6-0, 6-0Emil Reinberg (UGA) def. Jose...
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