2012 NCAA Men's Singles Tournament

db379

Hall of Fame
6-4 7-5 Johnson. I feel that Brad had a better shot than that. Just too many UE in the end. Ended it on a double fault on serve.... Good effort to get to the semis. It shows that he was still one of the top players in college.
 

db379

Hall of Fame
Johnson is just playing at a different level than anyone else right now, so well done Steve! Klahn is right there behind. In fact, Brad only lost to Steve Johnson this season if my memory is correct.
 

SoCal10s

Hall of Fame
Johnson on his injury, from ZooTennis (http://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.se/) "After singles I was feeling just exhausted physically and I tried to come out here and play doubles, but my body just wasn't holding up," said Johnson, who had an ice bag wrapped around his stomach area. "I knew more time on the court would be bad for me, so I just decided the body wasn't feeling good, so just call it a day. The heat finally got to me today, and I've 12, 16 hours to get ready for singles tomorrow against Bradley, so I'll get up in the morning with a better attitude, I think."


wow,what a way to throw your partner under the bus... SJ knows that he will get an automatic invite to USO ,but his partner,Quiroz, would be there too if they did well in the doubles ... so Quiroz now has little or no chance at the USO entry,because SJ didn't want to finish..

after reading this article ,it's hard to wish him well... very cut-throat ,but that's tennis...
 

10isplayer

Semi-Pro
wow,what a way to throw your partner under the bus... SJ knows that he will get an automatic invite to USO ,but his partner,Quiroz, would be there too if they did well in the doubles ... so Quiroz now has little or no chance at the USO entry,because SJ didn't want to finish..

after reading this article ,it's hard to wish him well... very cut-throat ,but that's tennis...

Quiroz wouldn't have been given a USO wildcard because he isn't american.
 

SoCal10s

Hall of Fame
OK... Kalamazoo kids get them for winner and runner's up, B18s ... winner get's main draw,runner;s up get qualies ..
 

Nostradamus

Bionic Poster
6-4 7-5 Johnson. I feel that Brad had a better shot than that. Just too many UE in the end. Ended it on a double fault on serve.... Good effort to get to the semis. It shows that he was still one of the top players in college.

Really Steve Johnson deserves to win this year. He was the best player all year long in NCAA. he has some long ways to go in the pros. but we will see how he does in the summer time.
 
OK... Kalamazoo kids get them for winner and runner's up, B18s ... winner get's main draw,runner;s up get qualies ..

Its the Same with NCAA's, but you have to be American in order to get the WC. At Kalamazoo, you have to be an American citizen to compete. Therefore, every winner would most likely get the WC.
 
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treeman10

Semi-Pro
With all that SJ did for that team this year, I do not think his doubles partner would have felt like he was thrown under the bus even if he could have played US Open (had they won).
 

woodrow1029

Hall of Fame
The first year Matias Boeker won the NCAA's, when he was going under Argentina, he did not get the US Open Wildcard.

The next year, he changed to USA, and won the NCAA's again, and then he go the US Open Wildcard.
 

mikej

Hall of Fame
Johnson is just playing at a different level than anyone else right now, so well done Steve! Klahn is right there behind. In fact, Brad only lost to Steve Johnson this season if my memory is correct.

Lol, some things never change, much easier to throw out pro-Stanford misinformation than do 45 seconds of research on the Stanford tennis website

Thanks to Clemson for dropping some knowledge and correcting db

Regardless of their fan base, congrats to both Stanford teams on some good runs in the individual tournies
 

Nostradamus

Bionic Poster
Johnson is just playing at a different level than anyone else right now, so well done Steve! Klahn is right there behind. In fact, Brad only lost to Steve Johnson this season if my memory is correct.

In my opinion, yes, Johnson is playing better at the moment. but as the pro career unfolds for these two guys, Klahn will prove to be the better of the two. They have very similar games but Klahn is lefty which proves to be a big advantage in the pros. but either way, both guys have lots of improving to do before making noise in the tour.
 

woodrow1029

Hall of Fame
Johnson is just playing at a different level than anyone else right now, so well done Steve! Klahn is right there behind. In fact, Brad only lost to Steve Johnson this season if my memory is correct.
Your memory is not correct, as usual. Do you even ever check into things before you post them?

He also lost to Fanselow (Pepperdine), Frank (UVA), and Rossi (UK)
 

Lendl

Semi-Pro
Division 1 men's finals and they are not at least on ESPN 360 or Fox Sports type channel? This is crazy that a final like this is not available other than the stream that has been going which is not great quality.
 

db379

Hall of Fame
Your memory is not correct, as usual. Do you even ever check into things before you post them?

He also lost to Fanselow (Pepperdine), Frank (UVA), and Rossi (UK)

I was watching this Stanford match a few weeks ago at Taube, and i couldn't believe how many poor calls the chair umpires were giving on several courts. Such a disservice to all these kids. Are you one of these umpires?
 

db379

Hall of Fame
In my opinion, yes, Johnson is playing better at the moment. but as the pro career unfolds for these two guys, Klahn will prove to be the better of the two. They have very similar games but Klahn is lefty which proves to be a big advantage in the pros. but either way, both guys have lots of improving to do before making noise in the tour.

I think Steve J has a better chance on the tour because he tends to come to the net a lot to finish points off, which is a big advantage in the pros. Look at his former teammate Robert Farah, they have similar attacking games, big serve, big FH but Farah doesn't come as much to the net. Robert has been playing pretty well lately, making the main draw of 2 Masters this spring and wining against a top 40 and a former top 5 (Davydenko). Yet, he's still struggling at 170 or so in the rankings. Is he playing poorly? Not at all, but as soon as the exchange goes on, he tends to make UE too easily compared to top 100 pros. When he comes to the net, he wins a lot more points and games. Brad has great weapons, but too many UE and a weak BH. I hope I'm wrong but this is going to bite him in the pros.
 
I know people pick on Johnson's backhand not being that good. But remember Fernando Gonzalez had a fantastic career made by slicing every backhand.
 

johndagolfer

Professional
Did any of you notice that within the first 3 or so games that Johnson questioned 3 or 4 balls that looked either clearly in or clearly out? I wonder if he will have this same problem when he turns pro or if he will be a big user of Hawkeye.
 

floridatennisdude

Hall of Fame
I know people pick on Johnson's backhand not being that good. But remember Fernando Gonzalez had a fantastic career made by slicing every backhand.

Isner didn't have a great all around game either and Johnson is better at this point than Isner was. I think that if Johnson plays "as is" on tour, he will float around the top 200. Only he can decide if he is going to get better and become a top 10 guy, which I believe he has the potential to do.
 
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