by Bobby Knight | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog
TCU and Texas both took one on the chin on Friday night but each rebounded nicely today by going on the road and defeating a quality opponent. TCU dropped a tough 4-2 match on Friday night at No. 13 Northwestern and today they were playing at the site of where their season ended a year ago – Tulsa. The Golden Hurricane were coming off an upset win over Texas so you had to figure it was going to be tough for them to play as well as they did on Friday. TCU head coach David Roditi stuck with the same doubles pairings but he swapped his teams at No. 1 and No. 2 and both of those teams would be the ones to get wins. Guillermo Nunez and Alex Rybakov...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog
Florida State welcomed in Florida Atlantic, South Alabama, Mercer, Troy, Florida A&M, and Georgia State for the FSU Invitational this weekend but the hosts couldn’t pull off the weekend sweep after Georgia State surprised them 4-2 in the championship match. FSU won the doubles point fairly comfortably with wins at No. 1 and No. 2 but Georgia State rebounded in singles taking four first sets. FSU’s Aziz Dougaz put the Seminoles in front 2-0 with a straight set win at No. 1 but Georgia State closed out each of the four matches where it won a first set with Jack MacFarlane clinching at No. 6 with a 6-2, 7-6(6) win over Terrell...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 14, 2017 | Blog
The John Roddick era is officially underway at Central Florida and it’s off to a great start after the Knights upset No. 23 Texas Tech 4-3. The Red Raiders started off the day at the brand new Home of the USTA by blanking New Mexico 4-0 and then in the second half of the doubleheader against UCF they got off to a good start after capturing the doubles point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3. UCF rebounded in singles by taking four first sets with three of them coming in tiebreaks. Texas Tech’s Bjorn Thomson made it 2-0 with a quick win at No. 4 but Central Florida evened it up at 2-2 when Chris Barrus and Alabama transfer Danny Kerznerman won in...
by Bobby Knight | Aug 12, 2016 | Blog
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...
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