by Bobby Knight | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
The fall season continues this week with several schools hosting tournaments – below are a few that I’ll keep some tabs on. For a full list of all the tournaments check out the ITA’s page. I’ll add draws and tournament info as they become available – I’d expect most school’s will have a post on Thursday with more details.Porsche Napa Valley Tennis Classic – St. Helena, CA – Teams Participating: Baylor, Cal (host), Florida, Princeton, Stanford, Texas, USTA Juniors.Friday, September 19, 20149:30 a.m. Orkin (Florida) v. Day (Princeton)Wikberg (Cal) v. Crawford (USTA)Scott (Texas) v. Paige...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
TCU’s Cameron Norrie claimed the inaugural Oracle ITA Masters with a 6-3, 7-6(2) win over Duke’s Nicolas Alvarez in the finals. Norrie came out ready to play and jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the opening set before Alvarez got a break back but Norrie still took the set 6-3. Norrie would lead 5-3 in the 2nd set and have a match point on the Alvarez serve but Alvarez won the 40-all deciding point to make it 5-4. Alvarez would then break from 30-40 to even it at 5-5 and then he’d hold at love to go up 6-5. Norrie would then hold from 40-15 to send the second set to a tiebreak and the tiebreak would be all Norrie as he’d go up 4-0 and...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog
There are a lot of fall tournament action taking place this weekend with Malibu, San Francisco, Charlottesville, Durham, Princeton, and Midland the hottest spots.The inaugural Oracle ITA Masters will be taking place Friday through Sunday in Malibu. The best news is that the finals of both the men’s and women’s events will be shown LIVE on the Tennis Channel from 12:30pm pst to 5pm pst. Check out the full draws below – who do you like?Live scoring for the MastersITA RnkUTR RnkNameSchoolUTR Rating11Axel Alvarez LlamasOklahoma15.1516T-16Wayne MontgomeryGeorgia14.381021Dominik Koepfer Tulane14.283154Max TchoutakianBaylor13.9615T-25Cameron...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog
The Southern Intercollegiates in Athens will crown its Division 1 and Division II singles champions on Monday as well as a Division I doubles champion.The Division I singles draw comes down to Georgia’s Wayne Montgomery (14.36 UTR) and Georgia Gwinnett’s Kevin Konfederak (13.65 UTR). Montgomery, who is the defending champion, picked up a tough 7-6(2), 7-6(5) win in the one semifinal over Georgia Tech’s Christopher Eubanks while Konfederak won the other semifinal over Georgia’s Paul Oosterbaan 7-6(3), 4-6, 7-6(2). John Frierson had a detail-filled recap of the Montgomery/Eubanks match which mentioned that Eubanks lost a few points due to...
by Bobby Knight | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog
The wait is over – college tennis is back and I couldn’t be more excited. Lots of heavy hitters will be in Athens this weekend for the Southern Intercollegiates with Georgia, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, Armstrong State, Clemson, Mississippi State, and more sending several guys to compete – click the here for Georgia’s preview and you can see the complete draws below.Here is the Division I singles draw broken down by UTR, School, & Seed.East Carolina hosts the ECU Fall Shootout with the Pirates welcoming players from College of Charleston, Elon, James Madison, Richmond.Penn hosts the Penn Invitational with the Quakers welcoming in...
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