The Blog Retirement Article

Well hello there! I don’t need to tell you that the Blog has been pretty much dormant for the past year-plus. There are more than a few reasons for that, and it’s not just Covid. Yes, the season being cancelled last year took a lot of wind out of everyone’s sails, and while there is…

The D3 Tennis World’s Reaction to COVID-19 and the Season Cancellation: Part I

Hey, everyone. Thank you to all who have written in so far with their thoughts about what this experience has been like for them. Below we have a nice mix of players, coaches, and parents sharing a good variety of perspectives. I know for me it’s been interesting to hear how everyone is dealing with…

Players of the Week: 03/02 – 03/08

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/02 – 3/08 Happy Spring Break Cancellation Week, boys and girls! At this rate, we’ll be lucky if that’s all we get. In what we hope won’t be the last POTW of the season, we look back at a bit of a light week. In case you need it, click…

2020 Men’s Power Rankings, 3/7

Hello folks. Remember to set your clocks FORWARD tomorrow. Don’t lose out on an extra hour of daylight! Enjoy the darkness when you wake up in the morning for a 6AM practice or when you go to work! That’s not miserable at all! Hey, at least that means an extra hour for Happy Hour. Which…

Central Rules Everything Around Me: March 6th – 8th Weekend feat. Spring Breaks (maybe)

Central Rules Everything Around Me: March 6th – 8th Weekend feat. Spring Breaks (maybe) Recently it seems like the C in C.R.E.A.M. has changed to covid-19 in the past week. @d3west, The Blog’s Number One Resident gives his take in a succinct two tweet thread here. We’re not sure if Case, Kenyon, and Wash U…

Women’s Players of the Week: Indoors Edition

Howdy, y’all! Season is back in full swing and we on the women’s side are back to your regular programming, which means Player of the Week Wednesdays! This weekend really kicked off the meat of the spring season for us with Indoors, so this week, we’ve primarily focused on performances there. We are looking to…

Changes and Constants: A Look Back at the D3 Tennis World of the Past

I’ll admit this post is somewhat self-serving. There’s not a ton of action with the teams I cover going on, and I’m a little uninspired to write about them until some actual results happen this weekend. So for now, I thought it would be fun to take a little trip down memory lane and talk…

2020 DraftKings Recap

Another Indoors come and gone, which means we get to look back on another year of Indoors DraftKings. Congrats to all who played, but a special shoutout to Winging It, WHO DEFENDED HER 2019 TITLE! In all our years of doing different Blog contests, we have never had anybody win the same contest in consecutive…

2020 Women’s Indoors QF Preview: #4 CMU vs #5 Chicago

Can I let you all in on a secret? I have “academic time” this morning where I guess I’m supposed to sit in class and learn something (or something like that), but instead I slept in and am blogging. And I don’t feel even a little bit guilty. Let this be a message of hope…

2020 Indoors Roundtable Recap

2020 Indoors Roundtable Recap We’ve assembled the news team and are here to give you our final thoughts on Indoors before we turn our attention to upcoming spring breaks and move ahead with the rest of the spring season season. If you haven’t yet, check out our first Players of the Week and D3AS’ Studs…