Big 10 Tennis Championships
 

i made this a while ago but i wanted to put this in its iown forum
Im not sure where to put this so i put it here. sorry if its in the wrong place

today i went to the big 10 championship match: Ohio St vs Illinois
it was a great meet with fun matches
here are the scores
Singles
1. No. 18 Bryan Koniecko (OSU) def. No. 19 Ryan Rowe (ILL) 6-4, 6-2
2. No. 22 Justin Kronauge (OSU) def. No. 48 Ruben Gonzales (ILL) 6-7, 6-1, 6-4
3. No. 33 Steven Moneke (OSU) def. Marc Spicijaric (ILL) 5-7, 6-1, 6-3
4. Billy Heiser (ILL) def. Shuhei Uzawa (OSU) 6-2, 6-3
5. Balazs Novak (OSU) def. Roy Kalmanovich (ILL) 6-3, 7-5
6. Waylon Chin (ILL) def. Drew Eberly (OSU) 1-6, 6-3, 7-6

Doubles
1. No. 33 Steven Moneke/Bryan Koniecko (OSU) vs. No. 11 Billy Heiser/Ryan Rowe (ILL) 7-7
2. Ruben Gonzales/Marc Spicijaric (ILL) def. No. 19 Drew Eberly/Justin Kronauge (OSU) 8-4
3. Waylon Chin/Brandon Davis (ILL) def. No. 33 Matt Allare/Shuhei Uzawa (OSU) 8-6


Doubles
this was the first college meet ive been to so i didnt know what to expect.
the doubles was really fast
they had really fast hands but also with a very soft touch
they were pounding the ball
the #1s for OSU had slower seves but made up fo it with there quick feet
i really only watched the #1s
UI won the dubs point

Singles
this was a whole different game
i watched Ryan Rowe for UI he was good but lost because he lost focus
the # 2s for both teams i thought was better then the #1s
they had such long rallies and were pounding the ball
it was entertaining
Ruban G. for UI was amazing killer FH
the #3 match was wierd
in the first set the guy from OSU shamked a shot and it was in on the other side. so the guy hit
the OSU guy was facing the fence
The coach yelled at him and set " Stephen your shot was in!!!!!"
Stephen won the math in 3

Other
i was amazed to see how hard they hit
the serve placement was awsome
there was a lot of " cmons!" " Here we go Buckeyes!"
very team oriented

Rackets:
for you gear junkes like me
3 k 95s
2 pure drives
2 areo storms
1 microgel radical
1 flexpoint instinct (surpising)
4 pure storms/pure controll ( couldnt tell)
1 POG
1 Prince diablo
1 yonex
1 flexpiont prestige

in all in was fun and I had a great time
sorry for the long post

I am from the same city as Matt Allare; he is soooo good. Last year at the Western and Southern Financial Group Masters he got to hit with federer

really he was very good when i saw him

His brother John isn't that bad either. Plays here at Michigan State. But Matt had a broken bone in his ankle this year. I cant see how Matt played in the dubs. When OSU was in E. Lansing Matt didn't play and went to the hospital and had a broken bone in his ankle. His ankle was pretty screwed up then. But OSU is a great team. They killed us 6-1. The big ten is getting very good! UofM has an awesome team. Jung is a very good player. Indiana and Wisconsin both have very good teams. What we had 6 teams qualify for the NCAA championships...that is pretty good if you ask me.

sorry to hijack this thread but if you don't mind prostaff, how are forger and allon doing for state? they were at the top of the sickest high school line-up that I saw in my 4 years at OHS.

you go to michigan state? Isnt Gene orlando from cincinnati??