by Bobby Knight | May 26, 2019 | Blog
History was made on Saturday with Paul Jubb becoming the first South Carolina man to win the NCAA Singles Championship after the junior from Hull, England, halted the 31-match winning streak of Mississippi State senior Nuno Borges. Jubb, who also became the first British man to win the NCAA Singles Championship, took the early advantage after breaking Borges’s opening service game but Borges broke back and held for 2-1. Jubb would regain the lead with a break on the deciding point for 4-3 and then after holding on the deciding point he’d break one more time to take the opening set 6-3. Jubb went ahead 2-0 in the second set but Borges...
by Bobby Knight | May 25, 2019 | Blog
The third time was the charm for Nuno Borges after the Mississippi State senior advanced to the finals of the NCAA Men’s Singles Championship after a straight set win over TCU senior Alex Rybakov. Borges was playing in the NCAA Semifinals for the third year in a row but after losses the last two years he put it all together on Friday and became the first MSU men’s player to advance to the NCAA Singles Final. The opening set was back and forth with a total of five breaks of serve with the last coming when Borges broke Rybakov’s 5-6 service game after Rybakov had three set points at 40/15. In the second set, Rybakov broke Borges...
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