by Bobby Knight | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog
Several players with college ties have roared into the quarterfinals at the USA F24 Futures in Champaign, Illinois. Recent Valparaiso graduate Jeffrey Schorsch picked up his first ATP point on Tuesday in a two-minute 1-0 retirement win over former Illinois No. 1 Farris Gosea. Schorsch added two more ATP points on Wednesday after he defeated another former Illinois No. 1 with a 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 win over Dennis Nevolo. Schorsch’s next opponent will be the No. 3 seed Dominik Koepfer after the Tulane graduate defeated UCLA rising senior Martin Redlicki in the first round and American Alexios Halebian in the second round. Harrison Adams started off the week...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog
For the second time in the last three weeks Virginia director of athletics Craig Littlepage welcomed in a new head tennis coach. The day after the NCAA team championships he named Andres Pedroso as the director of tennis and head men’s coach and today he named Sara Anundsen O’Leary as the new women’s head coach. O’Leary comes to Charlottesville after spending the last three seasons as the women’s head coach at Davidson where she led the Wildcats to a 45-21 (.682) record. Prior to coaching at Davidson, O’Leary was an assistant coach at her alma mater, North Carolina,Sara O’Leary has been named the new women’s...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
I’ve done the College ATP Singles Rankings on several occasions throughout the year but I hadn’t got around to breaking down the doubles rankings until now. For many former college players their best chance at success on the pro tour comes not on the singles side but the doubles side. As proof of this statement you need to look no further than numbers; there are 3 players with college ties in the ATP Doubles Top 10 and 25 with college ties in the top 100. In the most recent singles rankings there were 0 players with college ties in the top 10 and just 3 in the Top 100. Of course the one thing that can’t be overlooked is the difference in...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog
The last ATP level event took place over the weekend in London but there are a few more events left on the schedule at the Challenger and Futures level. Georgia Tech junior Chris Eubanks made a big splash last week in Champaign with his semifinal result moving him up almost 300 spots in the rankings to a career high of 645. Eubanks is now the fourth highest ranked current college player in the ATP rankings behind TCU’s Cameron Norrie, Ohio State’s Mikael Torpegaard, and Virginia’s Carl Soderlund. Tulane junior Constantin Schmitz was the biggest mover coming up 623 spots after making the finals in Niceville a week ago while TCU commit...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 14, 2016 | Blog
The Skupski Brothers, Ken (LSU 07) and Neal (LSU ’12), won their 14th career doubles title as a team with a tough three set win over Purav Raja and Divij Sharan in the finals of the $85K Slovakia Challenger in Bratislava. The Skupskis got broken to start the match and ended up dropping the opening set 6-4 but they rallied in the second set and after opening up a 3-0 lead they took the set 6-3. In the third set supertiebreak, the Skupski Brothers went up a mini-break at 3-1 and would never trail again as they closed it out 10-5. Ken’s ATP doubles ranking is up to #77 while Neal’s is at #85. Bratislava Champions after winning 4-6 6-3...
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