by Bobby Knight | May 1, 2016 | Blog
Semifinal Saturday was a busy one with two of the closest matches taking place at the same time in Stillwater at the Big 12 Championships.TCU edged Oklahoma in the regular season 4-3 and even though Andrew Harris wasn’t playing today you figured it would be still be a close one. TCU’s usual No. 4 Eduardo Nava was out as well so each team had to shuffle its lineup a bit.TCU took the doubles point but it was anything but easy – well it was easy at No. 3 but not on the other two courts. Cameron Norrie and Alex Rybakov won 6-1 at No. 3 but OU’s Spencer Papa and Alex Ghilea picked up a 7-5 win at No. 1. OU’s Axel Alvarez and Austin...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
The top two seeds at the Big West Tournament advanced to the championship match with No. 1 UC Santa Barbara shutting out No. 4 UC Irvine while No. 2 Cal Poly gutted out a 4-2 win over No. 3 UC Davis. UCSB and Cal Poly met in the regular season finale last Saturday with UCSB coming out on top by a 5-2 score in a match that was played at Cal Poly.UCSB took the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and No. 3 then the Gauchos picked up straight set wins from Morgan Mays, Cody Rakela, and Teague Hamilton at 3, 5, and 6. UCSB was in control at No. 2 when it was abandoned due to the clinch while Irvine was up at No. 1 and No. 4 had just split sets.(1) UC SANTA BARBARA 4,...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog
A great season for Arkansas got even better on Wednesday night when the Razorbacks beat Texas for the first time since 2004 and won in Austin for the first time since 1988. Arkansas took the doubles point by winning the deciding match at No. 1 in a tiebreak but Texas rebounded by taking four opening sets in singles.Adrian Ortiz bum-rushed Santiago Munoz 6-1, 6-0 at No. 3 and then Michael Riechmann put Texas ahead with a 7-6, 6-4 win over Adam Sanjurjo at No. 5. Arkansas’s Giammarco Micolani tied the match at 2-all with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Rodrigo Banzer at No. 4 and then Jose Salazar put the Hogs ahead with a come from behind 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 win over Texas...
by Bobby Knight | Jan 16, 2016 | Blog
The 2016 season is officially underway and it didn’t take long to get our first upset as #29 Tulsa came storming back from 3-1 down to stun #21 Cal 4-3. Tulsa made 3 roster additions this week and all 3 newcomers played tonight but it was the experienced veterans that came through with the match on the line.Tulsa got things started on the right foot by taking the doubles point with 6-4 wins at #1 and #3 but Cal still had to feel fairly confident going into singles with 5 of its 6 starters ranked in the ITA Top 90. Each team picked up three first sets and while Cal’s Filip Bergevi, Billy Griffith, and Oskar Wikberg finished in straight sets only one...
by Bobby Knight | May 1, 2015 | Blog
NCAA Interactive Bracket & Printable Bracket – all times EST.Oklahoma RegionalHeadington Family Tennis Center – Norman, OK[1] Oklahoma (24-2) vs. [49-64] New Mexico State (11-13) – Friday 5pm – Not a whole lot of analysis needed for this one with the #1 team in the country playing the WAC champs who come in with a losing record. This will be Oklahoma’s 27th match this year but only the 2nd against an unranked opponent – Purdue was the other.Doubles Records: Oklahoma 14-12, New Mexico State 11-11UTR Starting 6 Power Rating: Oklahoma 86, New Mexico State 73FYI, the number beside the...
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