by Bobby Knight | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
After a few close matches on Saturday, Sunday brought a pair of straight sets wins with little suspense as Virginia’s Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Tulane’s Dominik Koepfer each rolled into the finals.Thai-Son Kwiatkowski actually fell behind Stanford’s Tom Fawcett 2-0 in the opening set but then he reeled off 5 straight games to go up 5-2. After a Fawcett hold, Kwiatkowski would serve out the set and then go up an immediate break in the second set to put Fawcett on his heels. Kwiatkowski wouldn’t let up and would close out the 6-3, 6-2 win in just over an hour. Dominik Koepfer would book his spot to the finals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 11, 2015 | Blog
Saturday was a busy day for the guys in Tulsa with both the Round of 16 and Quarterfinals held within hours of each other but by the time the dust cleared we had our final 4 and they all happen to be top 16 seeds. The 8 morning matches saw 6 finish in straight sets with Tom Fawcett, Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, Hugo Di Feo, Dominik Koepfer, Uros Petronijevic, and Andre Goransson each winning somewhat comfortably. Both Ronnie Schneider and Konrad Zieba needed 3 sets in their Round of 16 matches though both cruised in the 3rd set taking the final set by 6-2 scores. The one thing that was a little strange was the fact that Ronnie Schneider and Shane Vinsant...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
Rain pushed play indoors on Day 2 of the main draw in Tulsa but that didn’t hurt Auburn’s Marko Krickovic as the qualifer knocked off the #1 seed Quentin Monaghan (Notre Dame) 1-6, 7-5, 7-5. Monaghan cruised to a 6-1 opening set but Krickovic turned it around in the 2nd set and went up 5-2. Krickovic got broke serving for the set up 5-2 and 5-4 but then he broke Monaghan to go up 6-5 and finally got a service hold to take the set 7-5. The 3rd set stayed on serve until Krickovic broke for a 4-3 lead and then he consolidated the break with a hold for 5-3. Monaghan would come back from 0-40 down on his serve to hold for 5-4 and then he’d...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
Today was the beginning of the main draw at the All-Americans in Tulsa but things didn’t exactly go as planned. Play was supposed to begin at 9am central but due to an issue with the draw the ITA had to redo it which meant that play was pushed back by 3 hours until 12pm central. The issue was that all 16 qualifiers were set to face a top 16 seed which isn’t the way it’s supposed to be done so after the draw was restructured we had 31 new match-ups with only the Nicolas Alvarez/Joao Monteiro pairing staying the same.Once play begin there was 1 top 8 seed to get upset with #5 Romain Bogaerts of Wake Forest going down to...
by Bobby Knight | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
After 5 days of qualifying the field is now set for the main draw at this year’s ITA Men’s All-American Championships.Florida freshman Alfredo Perez pulled off the somewhat rare feat of going 7-0 over the last 5 days by coming from the pre-qualifying draw to the qualifying draw and now to the main draw. Ohio State’s Matt Mendez, who got into the qualifying draw as a lucky loser, almost joined Perez in the main draw but after rallying from 5-2 down in the 3rd to tie it at 5-5 he would drop the final 2 games and lose 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 to North Carolina’s Robert Kelly.Perez is joined by 2 other freshman in the main draw with...
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