Ok, a lot happened today, and I don’t have a lot of time, so I’m just gonna write a few sentences about each match, and you guys can fill in the rest #21 Swarthmore def. Vassar 5-4 Vassar won two out of three of the doubles, and actually won 4 out of 6 first sets,…
#12 Pomona-Pitzer def. #20 Whittier 7-2 This is about the result everyone was expecting. I think people need to lay off the one overzealous Whittier supporter who predicted top 10 for them. Everyone who actually follows D3 tennis knows that Whittier is probably more like a 22-27 range team this year, but that’s a huge…
First off, the rankings came out yesterday. Here they are, if you haven’t had a chance to look at them. It looks pretty obvious that the ranking committee had a pretty hard time with basically every team after the top 3. You could make so many arguments for so many teams being higher than lower…
Williams completed their California sweep today with a 5-4 win over Cal Lu. The box score makes it look like the least dramatic 2-4 comeback of all time, as they won their four singles matches without dropping more than 4 games in a set. Though they entered the trip with the #3 national ranking, not…
Atlantic South Warren Elgort (Johns Hopkins) Hopkins lost twice last week, but that didn’t stop Elgort from picking up a few big wins. In doubles, he teamed with Jacob Barnaby to post an 8-5 victory over Emory’s #1 team of Goodwin/Humphreys. He followed that up with a straight sets win over Ian Wagner at #5…
Tuesday #3 Williams vs. #10 Santa Cruz This is another one of those matches that Cruz has absolutely no business winning on paper. D3tennis thinks that Williams, Amherst, and Emory are just way better than everyone else, but crazier things have happened this season. In reality, I don’t think the Slugs can win this one.…
#12 Trinity (TX) def. UT-Tyler 7-2 Looks like Trinity pulled Frey and DelaFuente after sweeping the doubles, so this match wasn’t really as close as the box score indicates. The only significant part of this match is that Straus still isn’t in the lineup for the Tigers. Bummer. #21 Carnegie Mellon def. #16 Mary Washington…
I was going to title my weekly column “10 Things We’ve Learned This Year.” Then I saw an interesting result, Bates d. Johns Hopkins 7-2, and I realized that we haven’t learned anything besides Amherst, Emory and Williams are better than everyone else. Given Carnegie Mellon’s win against NC Wesleyan and Bates win over Hopkins…
Atlantic South Chris Goodwin (Emory) The Eagles had to be happy to see him back in the singles lineup. He went 6-0 last week in matches against Cal Lu, Skidmore, and Kenyon, winning comfortably in all of his singles matches, and teaming with Dillon Pottish to help Emory avoid the doubles sweep against Kenyon. Now,…
Saturday It was another busy day for D3 tennis, and in this season, that means there was another huge upset. #21 Carnegie Mellon def. #5 NCW 5-4 This match followed the script of a typical upset. CMU came out fired up and swept the doubles. NCW fought back in singles, but CMU was able to…