How bout dem dawgs!!!

[Dawgie Dawg]

Season starts soon. I am excited to see the Dawgs in action.

[Dawgie Dawg]

Originally Posted by The Dawgs

Throughout this conversation there has been little reference to Campbell Johnson. Was 9-2 in the fall and last year had a nice win over Jomby of Kentucky who people on this board hold in high esteem. He had to play behind some great players last year, but may get an opportunity this year. He can play! He was a top 20 junior and has really improved over the last year.

would be top 3 at any other school but at UGA he gets left out. Shows how strong the team is

[Towerofpower205]

where is ku singh in the line up? i heard he was coming in and playing 1 singles. have you heard anything

[Clemson_tennis]

I predict that Singh will play #3. I think he will be above Taboada but below Doumbia.

[Downtown]

I actually attended the sec indoor championships last week in lexington, ky. might want to check your facts on who won. uga definitely did not look like world beaters at all. they are good, but not great. like u of kentucky, it will depend of how they improve, any injuries, something unforeseen, throughout the season. easy on the uga kool aid.

[Towerofpower205]

Went to match vs clemson dawgs look good

[Clemson_tennis]

This was a tough loss. But expected because Georgia is one of the teams who will be playing late in the year and vying for the title. We made a better showing this year than we did last year in Athens.

Doubles:

1: Maden/Rigsby def 8 Spencer/Brasseaux 8-4
Highlight of the day by far. This was a huge win for the tandem. Spencer and Brasseaux had just made the finals of the SEC indoors. Great win for Maden and Rigsby

UGA won the other two doubles 8-5 and 8-1 to take the doubles point.

singles(number=national rank):

1. 3 Will Spencer def 59 Yannick Maden 6-1 6-0
This was a lopsided affair. Maden was not clicking with his game. His game is all about consistent angles but the speed of the court surface was throwing him off all match. Spencer is just as consistent and has more firepower to end points. Bad matchup and bad court for Maden.

2. 10 Sadio Doumbia def Ayrton Wibowo 6-1 6-1
This was a battle of former Auburn-Montgomery(NAIA powerhouse) teammates. Doumbia has the classic flashy French game and a flairful backhand. Wibowo played well early and was able to work the points and set up a winning shot but then would miss the east shot. He was having issues with his grip and the balls continued to sail long. Doumbia never let up and showed why is a top 10 played in the nation.

3. KU Singh def Gerardo Meza 4-6 6-2 6-1
This was the best match of the day. Both players played very well in the 1st set. Meza was painting the lines with laser beam forehands and amazingly Singh was tracking down a lot of them. Meza used his forehand to win the first set. Singh then took his game up a notch. He was flying around the court and torquing his body to hit winners from any area of the court. Singh is a workhorse and could have probably played 4 more sets. His fitness proved to be the difference.

4. 26 Ignacio Taboada def Dom Maden 6-4 6-4
I did not see a lot of this match but the players traded games for the most part back and forth. Taboada is one of the nations most annoying personalities and it was a shame that Maden could not win a set.

5. 64 Hernus Pieters def Hunter Harrington 6-1 7-5
Harrington came out trying to play perfect and was making far too many errors. Pieters was steady and just allowed Harrington to make his errors. He settled down in the 2nd set however and played some good tennis. The 2nd set was even. Late in the set at 6-5, Harrington was able to stave off 5 match points with some big serves and an exquisite down the line slice winner. Pieters started to get flabbergasted by the amazing play Harrington was displayed on match points. The momentum would have took a big turn to Harrington had he been able to push the set to 6-all. But Pieters was able to find a way to win it.

6. Nathan Pasha def Cedric Willems 6-3 6-3
Pasha had his whole family watching the match in his first career dual match for Georgia for the Freshman. So Willems showed some good fight at parts of the match. He went away at 2-2 in the 1st set and allowed Pasha to win 3 straight games too easily. This was following an argument with the umpire which good the crowd more involved. Freshman mistake by Willems because it had been a pretty even match. In the end Pasha was the better shot maker.

It was a learning experience. Should not get too down because UGA will beat many teams like this throughout the season.

Next match is at #33 LSU. That is absolute must win match for NCAA tournament aspirations. It would go a long way to help our current ranking of 66

[The Dawgs]

One thing that jumped out at me was that Clemson was not nearly in the shape that Georgia was. Especially at #2 where Wiboro was cooked after just three games.

[Clemson_tennis]

Yeah I agree with that. Wibowo suffered a wrist injury at some during the match apparently, which could explain why all his shots were looping long. But yeah he did look out of of it early.

The difference in fitness was most clear in the Singh/Meza match. Also Pasha looked more fit late in his match than Willems did.

[Dawgie Dawg]

Of course. We don't do powderderpuff league fitness like at Clemson, we have real men playing with real physical power. I went to the match Saturday. Pasha was a monster, he bullied the Clemson guy with red hair around the court like crazy. Also Doooooombia was bringing the doom. He will be unbeatable this year at #2. Pieters will also be unbeatable at 5, Clemson's #5 looked really good in the 2nd set but Pieters beat him jus playing at his 25% level.

[Vicious Vik]

crawl away Dawgie Dawg

[Dawgie Dawg]

Originally Posted by Vicious Vik

crawl away Dawgie Dawg

Bad news for you Vicious Vag, the Dawgs are legit this year and I am not going away as long as we are top 5. Which will be all season

[Dawgie Dawg]

USC played good but they will get their comeuppance in May. Steve Johnson and his minions won;t know what hit them in the Dawg Pound. They can keep this mickey mouse title. Only Brian Boland would be proud of this title.

Pasha ripped the USC import player. He is getting better and better. Taboada will not lose to Gomez again. Spencer will take Sarmiento to the woodhsed next time around. KU was already making Nguyen breath like he had bag lungs, he will do that even more in Athens. Pieters will be ready for the german guy in May

[Dawgie Dawg]

Furman got some charity. Diaz felt bad and told the guys to give each player a few games.

[Dawgie Dawg]

Florida playd their match of their lives and still could not beat our C effort

[Dawgie Dawg]

Ole Miss played the match of their lives and still could not beat our C effort

[bluetrain4]

It's like Fed Ace became a Georgia fan.

[Dawgie Dawg]

Proving the doubters wrong again. i remember you UVA fans said there was no way win would win the SEC

[ClarkC]

Originally Posted by Dawgie Dawg

Proving the doubters wrong again. i remember you UVA fans said there was no way win would win the SEC

Maybe you could find quotes to that effect and link to them.

[TopDawg]

Article in the Atlanta Journal about Georgia's win over Kentucky. Nice to see college tennis mentioned in a larger newspaper though the AJC has always done a good job covering UGA Tennis especially around the NCAAs.