by Bobby Knight | Oct 25, 2015 | Blog
In South Bend at the Midwest Regional, 6 of the top 8 seeds moved into the quarterfinals where they’ll be joined by Michigan’s Carter Lin (12.51) who beat not 1 but 2 top 11 seeds. Lin first upset the #11 seed Toledo’s Stjepan Sisko (13.30) 6-4, 6-4 then followed that up by beating the #7 seed Valpo’s Jeffrey Schorsch (13.59) 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. Ohio State has 3 in the quarters with Chris Diaz, Ralf Steinbach, and Herkko Pollanen all advancing and they had a 4th in contention before freshman Martin Joyce fell to Illinois’s Aron Hiltzik 6-3, 7-6 in the Round of 16. The host Irish have 2 still remaining in #1 Quentin Monaghan and...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog
In addition to the 5 USTA/ITA Regionals taking place this weekend there will also be 9 SEC teams sending guys to Auburn, Alabama for the 2015 SEC Fall Classic.Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt are the 9 teams participating with Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, and Texas A&M not attending. Texas A&M has a good excuse though – they participating in the USTA/ITA Texas Regional.Singles Seeds:1. Danny Valent (Vanderbilt)2. Giammarco Micolani (Arkansas)3. Maxx Lipman (Florida)4. Marko Krickovic (Auburn)5. Elliott Orkin (Florida)6. Rhys Johnson (Vanderbilt)7. Filip Kraljevic (Ole Miss)8....
by Bobby Knight | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog
Lafayette, Louisiana native and LSU junior Jordan Daigle won his hometown Cajun Classic on Sunday by defeating USC junior Nick Crystal 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 in the finals. Daigle defeated Ole Miss’s Grey Hamilton, Oklahoma’s Austin Siegel, USC’s Max De Vroome, and Georgia’s Paul Oosterbaan in route to today’s final with each of those 4 wins coming in straight sets. Crystal was trying to make it 3-0 against LSU players after beating Boris Arias and Justin Butsch but it was not to be Crystal.Quotes from LSU’s recap”It started off really well, Daigle said. “I lost a little bit of focus in the second set but once the...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog
Florida continued it’s dominance at the Bedford Cup as the Gators filled all 4 semifinal spots in the A draw along a spot in the B draw semis.Arkansas’s 2 newest members, Michael Redlicki (Duke transfer) and Jose Salazar (Oklahoma transfer), each won today in the quarters of the Georgia Tech Invitational with Redlicki taking out South Carolina’s probable #1 Gabriel Freidrich and Salazar beating Auburn’s Joseph Van Dooren. The two Razorbacks will be joined by Tennessee’s Luis Valero and Georgia State’s Jannis Koeke with Valero beating South Carolina’s Alex Fennell (Penn St transfer) and Koeke knocking off UNCW’s...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 26, 2015 | Blog
The 3 seeds in the top singles draw at the Georgia Tech Invitational all went down on Friday while 3 of the 4 semifinal spots at the Cajun Classic in Lafayette are occupied by seeds.Atlanta (GA), UNC-Wilmington’s Santtu Leskinen (13.26) knocked off the #1 seed Kennesaw State’s Simon Pritchard (13.26) 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(4); if you’ll notice both players had identical UTRs. Tennessee’s Luis Valero (13.19) defeated the #2 seed Ole Miss’s Ricardo Jorge (12.86) 6-3, 7-6 and South Carolina’s Gabriel Friedrich (13.77) upended the #3 seed Ole Miss’s Gustav Hansson (13.90) in 2 tight sets 7-6, 7-5. Michael Redlicki (14.01)...
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