ACC tennis

[mikej]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Today's results:

my picks were pretty close.

Virginia def Duke 5-2: UVA is almost a solid lock in doubles and #2 singles. Shabaz lost his 2nd in a row to Hernandez(UVA fans comment on Hernandez's play of you were there). Jenkins is in a mini-slump. But Virginia dominated in the rest, so 5-2 but wasn't that close.

Duke 6, Virginia Tech 1: Actually kind of a struggle. Virginia Tech battles at 5 and 6 and won on court 4. Virginia Tech is showing a little bit of fight now late in the year.

top one should be UVA over UNC

and i don't know how much of a struggle Duke over VT was...won all three dubs (2 with ease) and the first three singles off the court went to Duke, all in straight sets, and two of those with ease

i guess they struggled to run up the score, perhaps

tech is pretty good as i see it, though...wins over louisville, boise, and fsu...along w/ 3-4 losses to pepperdine, minnesota, and unc

[mikej]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Clemson and Boston College: No clue because BC's website has zilch on it. Somebody must be playing a match to rival Isner/Mahut.

clemson won 5-2...probably their last win of the regular season if i had to guess: only UNC, Duke, UVA, VT left

[Clemson_tennis]

Originally Posted by mikej

clemson won 5-2...probably their last win of the regular season if i had to guess: only UNC, Duke, UVA, VT left

I think we have 1 great performance left in us and will beat either UNC at home or VT on the raod.

The BC match was closer than I would have liked. Dom Maden didn't play and Pietrucha played 6 (why play him over Bolona and Rigsby??)

[mikej]

in womens news:

#4 Duke - 4
#3 UNC - 3

a hard-fought win on tobacco road

[Clemson_tennis]

#11 Clemson women lost 5-2 to #9 Baylor

[Clemson_tennis]

Wake Forest beat Louisville 4-3 today in the last ever match at their old home courts. Decent win for them. Adam Lee really came through in the clutch

[Clemson_tennis]

Alright peeps. I will be at the UNC/Clemson match tomorrow. I plan to do a mega report. With video,pics and analysis.

If it doesn't rain

[Clemson_tennis]

UNC 4. Clemson 3. Gutted. I will have the full report later

[Clemson_tennis]

here is my full report on Clemson vs UNC. There are VIDEOS

[ClarkC]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

here is my full report on Clemson vs UNC. There are VIDEOS

The link is bad. Might have been butchered by the TT software, just like they do with the word M-i-d-w-e-s-t.

[Clemson_tennis]

Ok here it is, without a direct link

http://www.****************.com/show...6&postcount=98

type in m e n s t e n n i s f o r u m s for the starred out name

I also saw that Duke beat GT 6-1 and Virginia Tech upset Wake 5-2.

[Clemson_tennis]

tomorrow's slate:

UNC vs Georgia Tech: Hernandez vs Gomez will be a cracker. Both players are in good form. I am not sure about Spir/Boyajian seeing as I saw both of them disected by Yannick Maden in person. UNc has an edge at 3 and 4, Gt the endge at 5 and 6. Pick: Tech 5-2

Clemson vs Duke: I can't see any way Clemson can win. Especially coming off of such a tough loss. Duke 6-1, maybe a win at 5 or 6

FSU 6 Maryland 1

Miami 6 BC 1: Muppidi to break his skid at #1

Virginia 7, Wake Forest 0: Assuming UVA plays the full line-up can't see any spots where Wake can win.

Virginia Tech 5, NC State 2: Hodgson over Daciek at 2 and Sullivan with a win at 5

[ClarkC]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Virginia 7, Wake Forest 0: Assuming UVA plays the full line-up can't see any spots where Wake can win.

Jarmere Jenkins and Drew Courtney appear to be injured and sitting out this match.

[mikej]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

I also saw that Duke beat GT 6-1 and Virginia Tech upset Wake 5-2.

Gomez gave Cunha his first career ACC singles loss to avoid the shutout - good performance all around for Duke to pound a very good team

and VT over Wake is no upset in my book, even if Wake has been hovering a spot or two above them in the rankings much of this season

[mikej]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Clemson vs Duke: I can't see any way Clemson can win. Especially coming off of such a tough loss. Duke 6-1, maybe a win at 5 or 6

7-0 Duke...your man Galloway showed some pride and got a set, looks like everybody else got throttled: one set closer than 6-4 in the remaining five matches...8-1 and 8-2 in dubs...

[Clemson_tennis]

Yeah it was a whitewash. Started out not so bad. Early leads on courts 2,5,6 and 3. But Duke soon evened them and came through at the end of the sets.

Wietoska was playing 5 and Marchesse 6. Live scores was wrong.

I was dissapointed that Galloway could not win. It would have been a nice send off for him. He was up 4-0 in the breaker but lost it 10-7. Mengel hit like 4 straight winners to take to from 1-4 to 5-4.

[Gemini]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

tomorrow's slate:

UNC vs Georgia Tech: Hernandez vs Gomez will be a cracker. Both players are in good form. I am not sure about Spir/Boyajian seeing as I saw both of them disected by Yannick Maden in person. UNc has an edge at 3 and 4, Gt the endge at 5 and 6. Pick: Tech 5-2

Clemson vs Duke: I can't see any way Clemson can win. Especially coming off of such a tough loss. Duke 6-1, maybe a win at 5 or 6

FSU 6 Maryland 1

Miami 6 BC 1: Muppidi to break his skid at #1

Virginia 7, Wake Forest 0: Assuming UVA plays the full line-up can't see any spots where Wake can win.

Virginia Tech 5, NC State 2: Hodgson over Daciek at 2 and Sullivan with a win at 5

You called the score of the GT/UNC match-up and were almost spot on as far as the individual matches. Tech took the doubles point with wins at the 1 and 3 spots. In singles, Hernandez/Gomez was definitely a barn-burner with Gomez prevailing in the third set tiebreaker (12-10).

Spir (GT) retired in his singles match against Boyajian at No. 2 making the score 1-1 at that point.

Dean O'Brien (GT) disposed of Tony Meyer 0 and 1 at No. 6 spot. It was a really odd match to be honest. Meyer didn't seem to have any firepower or weapons whatsoever and O'Brien simply had his way with him. It was difficult to tell if he was injured or if that was normally his style of play. With that win Tech goes up 2-1.

Magin Ortiga (GT) goes down to William Parker (UNC) in straights 3 and 1 at No. 5. Ortiga simply didn't have the depth of shot to hurt Parker. Score tied 2-2.

Eliot Potvin (GT) takes out Joey Burkhardt (UNC) in straights 4 and 0 at No. 4. After the first set, Burkhardt's spirit was pretty much broken and but Potvin was relentless. Tech goes up 3-2.

Kevin King (GT) fights off two match points for Stefan Hardy (UNC) in the second set at No. 3 and forces a third. At this point, both players are absolutely spent...but...Hardy is cramping. You could see him shaking his right leg. He's absolutely afraid to behind his knees to get anything on his shots. Despite not bending his knees, he still manages to crack some outright winners off of King's second serves. It was pretty amazing. At some point, Hardy gets pretty desperate and starts hitting drop shots and going for clean winners from improbable positions. King eventually closed it out 6-2 in the third and clinched the winning point for Tech 4-2.

As mentioned earlier, Gomez and Hernandez was absolutely great stuff. There were some tense moments as Gomez laid into the ref to which he got a warning. There was something in the conversation where the ref alluded to "cheating" on Gomez's part but I'm not exactly sure of what the true situation was even though I was there. Gomez came up with the win for a final of 5-2.

[Clemson_tennis]

UVA slips by Wake 5-2. Wake's top 4 made a strong effort to get back into the match after dropping the 1st set on all courts. There was actually a moment when the result was in doubt. UVA has to get back to their ruthless ways.

NC State beat VT 5-2 today. Pulgar easily beat Somen and as expected Hodgson beat Daciek. This is a bad loss for Virginia Tech.

Miami 6, BC 1: Muppidi won on #1 as I expected

FSU slid past Maryland 4-3

[Clemson_tennis]

Duke at UNC today

UNC is ahead in the doubles match ups thus far. UNC live scores has some notes, that's a nice touch


UNC wins doubles point. Things get interesting now.

[mikej]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Duke at UNC today

UNC is ahead in the doubles match ups thus far. UNC live scores has some notes, that's a nice touch


UNC wins doubles point. Things get interesting now.

yeah this match has my attention now, even though I think Duke matches up very very well with UNC in singles

i think 1,2,5,6 all favor Duke...3,4 i'm less sure about (Hardy especially has a ton of firepower, we'll see how Mengel handles his first Duke-UNC match)...hopefully Saba can fight off a good player and give the top and bottom of the lineup a margin for error, we'll see