by Bobby Knight | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog
Typically Mondays only have 1 or 2 matches but there were a handful of decent ones on the slate today with Cal Poly going into Boise and winning, Memphis winning at South Alabama, and UCLA getting a slightly tougher than expected win over UNLV.UCLA won the battle of the abbreviations with a 6-1 win over UNLV. UCLA was a little shorthanded with 2 of its top 3 players out of the doubles lineup with Mackenzie McDonald (14.91) and Martin Redlicki both participating in a Futures event in Calabasas this week. After UCLA dropped the doubles point things were actually looking a little concerning but fortunately Redlicki was able to make it back in time to...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 15, 2015 | Blog
Saturday was a great day for college tennis with the 2 biggest matches of the day broadcasted on TV with The Longhorn Network showing Texas/Illinois while the Pac 12 Network showed USC/UCLA. The only thing that kind of stunk a bit was the fact that the 2 matches were being played simultaneously so while I did switch back and forth a bit I primarily stayed with the Texas/Illinois match because of how close it was throughout. When the starting lineups were posted 30 minutes before the start of the Texas/Illinois match I had to do a double take because I didn’t see Farris Gosea’s name anywhere. I was hoping the guys on the Longhorn Network would...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 14, 2015 | Blog
They’ll be 3 really good ones on Saturday with LA, Chicago, and Austin the places to be. What’s so great is that 2 of these 3 will be on TV with the Pac 12 Network carrying the singles portion of the USC/UCLA match and with the Longhorn Network carrying the Illinois/Texas match in its entirety.It’ll be interesting to see if USC can snap out of its recent funk or if UCLA can ride the comeback of Gage Brymer to an upset win. It’ll be interesting to see how Illinois looks after a 2 week layoff and whether they’ll switch up 1 and 2 singles in an attempt to sweep the top 2 spots. It will also will be interesting to...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog
Tulsa showed up at the LA Tennis Center with nothing to lose after upsetting USC and Pepperdine and lose is exactly what they did. Billy Martin’s boys came to play and they gave Tulsa a pretty thorough beating in every facet of the match. UCLA’s #1 and #3 doubles teams both posted 6-0 shutouts to seal the doubles point and give UCLA the early 1-0 lead.Things never got any closer in singles as UCLA cruised to 5 1st sets and the 2nd sets went just as quickly with Mackenzie McDonald, Dennis Mkrtchian, Martin Redlicki, and Karue Sell all winning in straight sets. The only positive for Tulsa was Mitchell Pritchard taking the 1st set at...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 3, 2015 | Blog
Nothing like a little mid-week tennis to get everybody excited and that’s what we’ll have Tuesday evening with #5 Baylor hosting #15 TCU and #21 UCLA hosting #51 Tulsa. #15 TCU (8-3) at #5 Baylor (9-2) – 7pm est – Live Scoring & Blog + Video (if played outdoors) – This will be the Big 12 opener for both schools with Baylor fresh off a win over Virginia while TCU swept a pair of matches on Sunday against Wisconsin and Incarnate Word. TCU started off the year with 5 straight wins including wins over Texas A&M and LSU but then got swept at the National Indoors by Duke, Virginia, and UCLA. Baylor lost its...
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