by Bobby Knight | Jul 4, 2016 | Blog
Cameron Norrie’s summer just keeps getting better as the TCU Horned Frog won his 10th straight match on Sunday by beating recent Illinois graduate Jared Hiltzik to claim the $25K Wichita, Kansas, USA F23 Futures. The match started off with five consecutive breaks before Norrie fought off a pair of break points to hold for 4-2. After a Hiltzik hold, Norrie would take the next five games to close out the opening set 6-3 and go up 3-0 in the second set. It was all holds the rest of the way with Norrie fighting off a break point to hold in a one-deuce game to close it out 6-3, 6-3.Norrie has now won back-to-back Futures events after taking the singles title...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 3, 2016 | Blog
Wimbledon (Grass) – Steve Johnson advanced to the fourth round at a Grand Slam for the first time in his career after taking out #37 Grigor Dimitrov in four sets. The match started on Friday and Johnson was serving up 4-3 in the first set when the rain came and suspended the match for the rest of the day. When play resumed today Johnson held for 5-3 but Dimitrov held and then broke from 15/40 to even it at 5-5. The set went to a tiebreak and Johnson had a set point up 6-5* but Dimitrov took the next three points to take the set 7-6(6).The second set was break-free but Johnson rolled through the tiebreak 7-3. Johnson jumped out to a double-break 3-0...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 2, 2016 | Blog
Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced the hiring of Kelcy McKenna as the Badgers new women’s coach. McKenna spent the previous four years at New Mexico with the first three as an assistant/associate before taking over as the head coach last season (went 15-7). McKenna replaces Tina Samara who resigned after three seasons to take the Pacific job.Extremely excited to announce the new head coach of Wisconsin Women’s Tennis, Kelcy McKenna.Welcome to the family! pic.twitter.com/SZCM77Je56 UW Women’s Tennis (@BadgerWTennis) July 1, 2016NC State head coach Jon Choboy announced that he has hired Maciek Sykut as his new assistant...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog
Oklahoma filled one of its two openings on Thursday by announcing the hiring of Audra Cohen as its new women’s head coach. Cohen won a NCAA singles championship as a player at Miami in 2007 and spent the last five seasons in Jacksonville as the head coach at North Florida. Cohen’s North Florida teams won almost 75 percent of its matches in that five-year period and made four NCAA Tournament appearances. Here is the full release from Oklahoma on the hire and here is North Florida’s release as well.Clemson head coach John Boetsch announced the hiring of Ryan Young as the Tigers new assistant coach. Young played at Clemson from 2004 to 2007 and...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog
For the second time in two weeks Arizona State has a new men’s head coach with South Florida’s Matt Hill chosen to jumpstart the program just five days after Adam Steinberg’s announcement that he would not take the job and would remain at Michigan. Hill had done a tremendous job at South Florida over the last four years accumulating a 73-33 (21-9, 21-7, 19-7, 12-10) record and leading the Bulls to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last three years. Hill guided South Florida to its first-ever trip to the NCAA Sweet 16 during the 2014-15 season and this past season they hosted a Kick-Off Regional for the first time in school history....
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