REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/05-03/11 A-SOUTH Player: Ray Boppana Team: Carnegie Mellon Results: 2-0 in singles against Whittier and Wash U Recap: Ray Boppana clinched the epic CMU/Wash U thriller yesterday over hype train candidate JJ Kroot and did it in style. With a fireball forehand down the line, Boppana put CMU in a…
I will admit that this was supposed to go out last week, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be posting our Power Rankings early this week in order to soothe your concerns. Note that this should be taking into account most of the action that happened this past weekend, but given the timing there…
2018 Spring Break Walla Walla Preview Happy Friday, boys and girls and welcome to our first big tennis weekend of 2018! There’s a lot going on this weekend, so we, your faithful Blog servants (or some of us at least) have gotten together to write a preview for SPRING BREAK Walla Walla. While the Central…
We have officially kicked off the 2018 season and things are looking very interesting on all fronts! On the West Coast, we had Hunt of Hardin Simmons take out the Roger Federer of Texas (Fagundes)… a huge upset to kick off the season. Redlands is looking like an extremely solid team this season, Trinity(TX) had…
Though the fall season is a relatively quick one for the players out West, I see it as one of the most grueling weekends of the year. There aren’t many times in the spring where you’ll play up to 10 matches (singles and doubles) in one weekend, so huge props to those who played an…
The singles are underway at the #OracleCup, but the doubles aren’t scheduled to start until the mid afternoon. That gave us a little more time to write another little ditty for you, this time with an eye on tennis played in pairs. Just like in the singles draw, Gustavus and Alhouni are the No. 1…
Prediction time, boys and girls! This tournament is probably the hardest thing to predict of the entire year, so feel free to point and laugh when it’s all said and done. The most popular singles pick was Mr 10K, Jonathan Jemison, with six picks, but we also have three votes for Daniel Levine. On the…
Happy Wednesday, boys and girls, and welcome to the first of The Blog’s Small College Nationals (now called the ITA Oracle Cup) preview articles! We are hoping to have a prediction article out for you tonight, a roundtable article for you tomorrow morning, and perhaps even more if my fellow bloggers get their acts together.…
Welcome back to a blog favorite, Power Rankings! Now that ITAs are over, the writers have again come together to shoot the sh*t on a google document and rank the top 42 teams from Division III Tennis. We have information now from ITAs and can form initial power rankings based on the individual performances that…
I’m feeling good because the Broncos just won, so I’m gonna pump out a quick rapid reaction from my favorite tennis weekend of the year. The ITA weekend was always my favorite for many reasons: it was the first significant competition for several months, and I was always jonesing; it was exciting to see how…