by Bobby Knight | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog
The owners of 38 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Team National Championships will meet on Friday afternoon in Los Angeles as the #1 USC Trojans host the #37 Stanford Cardinal.USC’s media guide shows they lead the all-time series 109-76 with the 1st match played in 1925 while Stanford’s shows USC leads it 63-59 with the 1st match coming in 1967. I’d have to go with USC’s as the more accurate source since I know Stanford was playing tennis long before 1967. Stanford has won 17 NCAA Championships with the last coming in 2000 while USC has won 21 NCAA Championships including 5 of the last 6.USC has won 8 straight in...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog
The big match of the day in Gainesville had a close doubles point but once Georgia got the early lead it never looked back and ended up pulling away for a 4-1 win.The doubles point looked like it was Florida’s for the taking after the Gators #2 team of Elliott Orkin and Maxx Lipman cruised to a 6-1 win while its #1 tandem of Diego Hidalgo and Gordon Watson jumped out to a 4-2 lead. With Georgia’s #3 team of Wayne Montgomery and Paul Oosterbaan also winning 6-1 the pressure would go back on Georgia’s #1 team of Austin Smith and Ben Wagland and the undefeated tandem wouldn’t go away as they took 3 straight games to go up 5-4 and...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 22, 2015 | Blog
I knew it’d be hard for today’s matches to follow up those from Friday but while a few of them came up short in the drama department the one that didn’t was the “Big Slam” in Berkeley as Stanford pulled out a classic 4-3 win over rival Cal. Cal jumped out to the early lead by taking the doubles point with a 7-5 win at #3 doubles in the clinching match. Stanford welcomed freshman David Hsu back into the singles lineup at 5 which shifted Nolan Paige to 6 while Cal made a switch at 5 and 6 and moved Greg Bayane up from 6 to 5 and dropped Wikberg from 5 to 6. After dropping the doubles point the momentum shifted...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 21, 2015 | Blog
Friday was an entertaining start to the weekend and I expect that Saturday should more of the same. Let’s take a look at the highlighted matches on Saturday.The number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of the current date so Notre Dame’s Quentin Monaghan has a 14.28 UTR as of today 2/21. For more details about UTR check out theirwebsite. #17 Notre Dame (6-1) at #9 Ohio State (10-3) – 12pm est – Live Scoring & Streaming – Ohio State goes for #200 in a row at home (according to my records) though it won’t be easy as Notre Dame...
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