by Bobby Knight | Nov 14, 2015 | Blog
The seeds have held their own so far at the Dick Vitale Lakewood Ranch Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic with all 4 men’s seeds and 3 of the top 4 on the women’s side into the quarterfinals.The seeds haven’t faired as well at the Jake Kramer Tennis Classic in Rolling Hills, California with only 2 of the top 8 making it to the quarterfinals and only 1 of those 2 making the semifinals. USC junior Connor Farren will meet his teammate sophomore Thiabault Forget (son of Guy Forget) in the one semifinal while the #1 seed Arizona senior Naoki Takeda will face Stanford senior Maciek Romanowicz in the other.Georgia’s Nick Wood and Walker...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog
Over the next 4 days the big headline grabber will be the National Indoor Intercollegiates in New York but there are a few other events taking place that are I’ll keep an eye on too.The Jack Kramer Tennis Club in Rolling Hills Estates, California will host the Jack Kramer Classic with 12 mainly west coast teams sending players to compete. Those 12 schools are USC, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Cal Poly, Loyola Marymount, UC Santa Barbara, Pepperdine UC Irvine, and SMU. The tournament site is here and it has a list of competitors with draws likely to be released on Thursday. Some of the bigger names competing are UCLA’s Gage...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog
Michigan redshirt sophomore Davis Crocker won the Big 10 Indoor Championship by knocking off Northwestern freshman Ben Vandixhorn 6-2, 6-2 in the semifinals then he beat Nebraska freshman Toby Boyer 6-3, 6-2 in the finals. All said and done Crocker went 6-0 on the week in singles play and only dropped 1 set. Boyer earned his spot in the finals by defeating Indiana’s Matt McCoy 6-4, 6-3Congrats to @DJCTennis for winning the singles title at the Big Ten Indoor Tourney! #goblue pic.twitter.com/8BsASshdeU Michigan Tennis (@umichtennis) November 9, 2015We are just 3 days away from the start of the 2015 National Indoor Intercollegiates in New York...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
South Carolina’s Gabriel Friedrich knocked off teammate Harrison O’Keefe 6-3, 6-7(0), 6-4 in a live streamed match on ESPN3 to win the top singles flight at the USTA Clay Court Invitational in Orlando.Comments from SC recap:”What a way to end the tournament, South Carolina head coach Josh Goffi said. “I couldn’t be more proud of Gabriel and Harrison. Both kept raising their level to trump the other’s momentum gains and, consequently, we ended up with a very high-level match at the end. They were respectful, yet extremely competitive, and that’s one of the hardest things to do when you’re...
by Bobby Knight | Nov 8, 2015 | Blog
The champion of the USTA Clay Court Invitational Gold draw is guaranteed to be a South Carolina Gamecock after sophomores Gabriel Friedrick and Harrison O’Keefe each won twice on Saturday.Friedrich (13.68) opened up with a 6-3, 6-2 quarterfinal win over Troy’s Giovani Samaha (12.94) and then beat Pepperdine’s Guilherme Hadlich (13.68) 6-3, 6-4 in the semis while O’Keefe (13.49) beat Baylor’s Jimmy Bendeck (13.22) 6-2, 7-6(4) in the quarters and Pepperdine’s Pedro Iamachkine (13.09) 6-4, 6-4 in the semis. In the Garnet draw final it’ll be Pepperdine’s Lautaro Pane (12.83) taking on Penn...
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