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…

NE UPDATE: SPRING BREAK VS CORONAVIRUS

NE SPRING BREAK UPDATE Can I tell you how dispiriting it is in the Blog group chat right now? Every couple hours there’s some new news on another school doing something related to the Coronavirus, or the stock market, or the presidential race or college basketball or something else equally as depressing. I bet if…

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…

Northeast Women’s 2020 Season Preview

Hello hello hello! I’ve finally awoken from my winter hibernation, and thanks to the groundhog, I know that spring is just around the corner!!! And you know what that means – tennis is finally back ladies and gents! My fellow women’s writers have already put out some fire content and huge shoutout to our new…

2019 FALL “HOT” TAKES: AVZ Speed Round

We’re definitely into true offseason mode now as the responses to the hot takes get thinner and thinner. Luckily resident boomer AVZ is here and he majored in lightning rounds… AVZ TAKE/DEFENSE I am going to go with speed round because I have multiple takes. 1) Case Western is a top 10 team and will…

Women’s 2019 ITA Cup Recap

Hello readers! After a busy weekend of tennis, (most of) your women’s blogging team got together to bring you the 2019 ITA Cup recap. Though the ITA still isn’t technically over, with the singles final still to be played in Claremont, we wanted to strike while the iron is hot and bring you our reactions…

Untitled Wesleyan Invitational Preview…Game

It’s Friday night and I’m blogging about a fall tournament. I loathe myself. Down in Georgia we are left with two players in the singles draw AND UNSURPRISINGLY THEY’RE BOTH FROM THE NE!!! Stan Superman Morris and Boris Aaron Sorkin have a rematch of the New England ITA final to see which player brings home…

2019 ITA Cup Women’s Preview

ITA Cup is this weekend and your women’s bloggers have assembled to bring you some hot content. Since we all can’t sit around a table and chit chat about horoscopes, which coast is best (obv, East), oh and D3 tennis, we had ourselves a virtual roundtable to peer into our crystal balls on this coming…

A very belated New England ITA recap

I’m back, tennis fans! After a bit of a hiatus (which I warned you about), I’m here and as excited as ever to recap the great tennis weekend that was the New England Regional. There was a ton of really high level tennis being played, lots of new names to learn, upsets to be witnessed,…