by Bobby Knight | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Tulane Athletic Director Troy Dannen announced the hiring of Maria Brito as the Green Wave’s new women’s head coach. Brito comes to New Orleans after spending the last four season as the assistant coach at her alma mater Clemson. Brito replaces Terri Sisk who stepped down in April after going 120-75 over the past nine seasons including 22-7 this past season. Below are some quotes from Tulane’s release:”We feel very fortunate to add Maria as the leader to our women’s tennis program,” Dannen stated. “Her experience as both a player and coach at the highest level, and her demonstrated commitment to all aspects of an...
by Bobby Knight | Jun 21, 2017 | Blog
Plenty of current, future, and former college players were in action today at pro events all across the globe. There are a pair of Futures events in the United States this week with one taking place on the clay in Rochester and another on the hard courts in Winston-Salem. Recent Virginia graduate Thai-Son Kwiatkowski won the longest match of the day with the former Hoo defeating TCU’s Alex Rybakov in 3 hours and 11 minutes. Rybakov came back from a 4-1 first set deficit to take the set in a tiebreak 7-5 but Kwiatkowski would get a split by taking the second set in a tiebreak 11-9. Rybakov led that second set tiebreak 5-3 but he never had a match point....
by Bobby Knight | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog
For the second time in the last three weeks Virginia director of athletics Craig Littlepage welcomed in a new head tennis coach. The day after the NCAA team championships he named Andres Pedroso as the director of tennis and head men’s coach and today he named Sara Anundsen O’Leary as the new women’s head coach. O’Leary comes to Charlottesville after spending the last three seasons as the women’s head coach at Davidson where she led the Wildcats to a 45-21 (.682) record. Prior to coaching at Davidson, O’Leary was an assistant coach at her alma mater, North Carolina,Sara O’Leary has been named the new women’s...
by Bobby Knight | May 25, 2017 | Blog
Just one day after winning the program’s third straight NCAA National Championship Athletic Director Craig Littlepage named former UVA associate head coach Andres Pedroso as the Cavaliers’ new men’s head coach and director of tennis. Pedroso, who served under the departing Brian Boland from 2010 to 2014, was a national coach for USTA Player Development prior to coming to Charlottesville and then after leaving in 2014 he began coaching privately in South Florida. Pedroso will also be responsible for hiring a new women’s coach to replace Mark Guilbeau who stepped down on May 5. Below are some quotes from Virginia’s release which is...
by Bobby Knight | May 24, 2017 | Blog
After a week that’s been filled with weather issues it was fitting to have the men’s final play indoors after a morning and afternoon full of rain. The match was originally scheduled to start at 1 p.m. but with storms set to clear out shortly after 4 p.m. the decision was made to delay the match to see if it could be played outdoors. Unfortunately the rain hadn’t stopped by 3 p.m. so therefore due to the TV commitment to ESPNU the match had to proceed indoors with a 4 p.m. start. I was told that if they didn’t begin by 4 p.m. they’d lose one of the two time windows which would have meant the women’s final wouldn’t have...
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