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Horrible loss by my Gators, we just layed, down, I thought we really had a chance this year to win it all but that match yesterday suggests otherwise. Not a fan of Oli's antics these days, he's going to have to clean that up if he wants to go pro, acts like a boy. We have every advantage today after playing 90 min yesterday against Wake.....interesting match vs OSU. OSU will need to stop their standard stacking, Boulais is probably their 5 player at 3.
Impressive effort by USC without Holt, Stanford looks pathetic. Shocked Mich beat Texas without their 3, the Berque poor coaching trend continues.
Today I think USC and UNC both win easy, 4-0 or 4-1 matches.
 
Deon Sanders said:
Not sure Wake could possibly play better across the board than they did today

Their #2 should never have made a three set match out of it

Wake is not as good as they have been but they balled today
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Wake put up a good fight, but Wake can also play better (especially outdoors). Wake didn't play that well in doubles, and Wake was up a break in the third set at 2 and couldn't hold it. I also think Nava at 5 can play better.
 
I think it’s possible the Stanford-NCSt match had the worst two teams in the tournament, NCSt didn’t win another point all weekend after that 3-4 loss, and good chance Stanford will replicate that
 
mikej said:
I think it’s possible the Stanford-NCSt match had the worst two teams in the tournament, NCSt didn’t win another point all weekend after that 3-4 loss, and good chance Stanford will replicate that
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Hey, at this time I'm hoping for a set....
 
Wow, Stanford finding a new gear today, 4 singles first sets - much as I love to message board battle with feddie and rag on his guys, I’d love to see UF bring this kind of effort in a couple hours
 
mighty big dubs pt on the line coming down to 5-5 on court 1, not sure either WF or UF is winning 4 singles very easily - time for crawford and riffice to step up!
 
mikej said:
mighty big dubs pt on the line coming down to 5-5 on court 1, not sure either WF or UF is winning 4 singles very easily - time for crawford and riffice to step up!
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Jesus, just as I say that they drop two games to hand WF the point - I guess loading 1 dubs with your top two players isn’t enough, this team...
 
Three players simultaneously serve for the set at 5-3 (Crawford, vale, greif), all three get broken without getting to deuce

Impressive
 
Also I retract with apologies my prior statement about this draw being too tough for UNC, they crushing fools
 
Was a brilliant day of tennis, too bad Michigan didn't pull that off, and UNC is clearly the number 1 team. OSU came out flat, and made a fight of it, but couldn't overcome the doubles point loss its too bad they couldn't get points on the board. I think UNC rolls tomorrow...
 
Nacho said:
Was a brilliant day of tennis, too bad Michigan didn't pull that off, and UNC is clearly the number 1 team. OSU came out flat, and made a fight of it, but couldn't overcome the doubles point loss its too bad they couldn't get points on the board. I think UNC rolls tomorrow...
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Pac12 power will be revealed tomorrow. I think Trojans will pull this one off and prove they can beat any east coast team
 
Nostradamus said:
Pac12 power will be revealed tomorrow. I think Trojans will pull this one off and prove they can beat any east coast team
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Well they’ve sure put west coast teams in their place already, so yes I imagine they’re up for a bigger challenge

Btw, while we have you here, is Geller the worst Stanford #1 in recent memory? If not him, then who?
 
Nostradamus said:
Pac12 power will be revealed tomorrow. I think Trojans will pull this one off and prove they can beat any east coast team
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we get it, you love the PAC 12....but Holt has got some bug, and the rest of the team is under the weather, and playing indoors...They barely fought through a good but not great Michigan team. It was a great comeback, but not the way a top 5 team should be playing going into the finals; don't see them doing very good tomorrow
 
Saul Goode said:
You’re so cute when you support USC. Don’t ruin It by saying anything creepy about college girls young enough to be your niece.
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Stop it. There is no such thing as age gap as long as the guy isn't married and cheating on his wife. Guy is single then all is fair game. That age gap creepy thing was created by jealous Middle aged guys that are married whom they know they can't get lucky with 20 something girls anymore because they are married with kids. They are secretly fuming in their shoes when they see older Single guy who is dating 20 something girls...…………….LOL:love::-D
 
Nostradamus said:
Stop it. There is no such thing as age gap as long as the guy isn't married and cheating on his wife. Guy is single then all is fair game. That age gap creepy thing was created by jealous Middle aged guys that are married whom they know they can't get lucky with 20 something girls anymore because they are married with kids. They are secretly fuming in their shoes when they see older Single guy who is dating 20 something girls...…………….LOL:love::-D
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....AAAAAAND in record time you do it.
 
Nacho said:
we get it, you love the PAC 12....but Holt has got some bug, and the rest of the team is under the weather, and playing indoors...They barely fought through a good but not great Michigan team. It was a great comeback, but not the way a top 5 team should be playing going into the finals; don't see them doing very good tomorrow
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while all of that is true the other point of view is: USC still beat a Michigan team that is playing out of its mind and already won over #4 and #7 ranked teams, with its #1 player, and easily top 5 player in the country clearly not healthy enough to be on court, and with #2 player playing under tremendous pressure against a very tough opponent and having lost first set 1:6, and while trailing overall 1:3. With 2 freshmen coming back from a set down to win their matches. That's not bad at all. I say there's some hope tomorrow.
 
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jmnk said:
while all of that is true the other point of view is: USC still beat a Michigan team that is playing out of its mind and already won over #4 and #7 ranked teams, with its #1 player, and easily top 5 player in the country clearly not healthy enough to be on court, and with #2 player playing under tremendous pressure against a very tough opponent and having lost first set 1:6, and while trailing overall 1:3. With 2 freshmen coming back from a set down to win their matches. That's not bad at all. I say there's some hope tomorrow.
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I can get there with that. Very impressive what Michigan did this week, they have a lot of reason to be excited; USC showed a lot of fight to come back.
 
Interesting to see how freshmen have contributed to wins this weekend from Kingsley and Styler high in the lineup to Ryder Jackson and Dostanic saving USC's chances at the bottom. It is ridiculous that UNC is so talented that Rinky H with an ATP ranking of 643 plays 3. Would you say that 17-2 Kingsley is top fresh (until Brooksby can play) with dominant win vs #1 Cukierman, and Styler (17-8 overall, 8-3 spring) is the 2nd best with wins vs #12 and #34 in country and 3 set TB loss vs #1 Cukierman? Cukierman may have the best record in ITA 24-2 with only the straight set loss vs Kingsley and a 3rd set loss vs #3 Vacherot of A&M in fall. Really amazing for freshmen to do so well vs the 24yo. Styler is the only one to take him to a 3rd set TB before losing. (In comparison, #2 Ito is 23-3 with losses vs Fenty of Mich and Bryde of UGA this spring). I looked at the list of top freshmen/newcomers from fall. Those 2 with Rinky are the standouts to me.

I also think it is interesting to note how some players who didnt even play in past years have made a big impact this dual season. For example on the MIchigan team, Nick Beaty, just a 4 star player as a junior, only played vs Nebraska and Purdue as a soph last year. Now as a junior he is 9-2 in dual matches including win vs Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, and NC State mostly at 5. Quite an effort from a guy who didnt play much in past years even tho he lost in 3 vs ranked USC freshman and former blue chip Dostanic. Similarly Connor Johnston who was mainly known from dubs and was maybe 40% winning at 4 last year vs probably an easier slate is 6-4 this spring with big wins vs ranked players from USC and Texas. Not sure how those guys will do when teams move out doors, but it is always great to see patient hardworking kids in the lower end of the lineup/bench earn some big wins and help their teams earn upsets.
 
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They need to figure out how to have the final match on Sunday. There's 11.50am and there's 20 people here including food vendors and folks from cracked racquets that provide the commentary.....
 
jcgatennismom said:
Interesting to see how freshmen have contributed to wins this weekend from Kingsley and Styler high in the lineup to Ryder Jackson and Dostanic saving USC's chances at the bottom. It is ridiculous that UNC is so talented that Rinky H with an ATP ranking of 643 plays 3. Would you say that 17-2 Kingsley is top fresh (until Brooksby can play) with dominant win vs #1 Cukierman, and Styler (17-8 overall, 8-3 spring) is the 2nd best with wins vs #12 and #34 in country and 3 set TB loss vs #1 Cukierman? Cukierman may have the best record in ITA 24-2 with only the straight set loss vs Kingsley and a 3rd set loss vs #3 Vacherot of A&M in fall. Really amazing for freshmen to do so well vs the 24yo. Styler is the only one to take him to a 3rd set TB before losing. (In comparison, #2 Ito is 23-3 with losses vs Fenty of Mich and Bryde of UGA this spring). I looked at the list of top freshmen/newcomers from fall. Those 2 with Rinky are the standouts to me.

I also think it is interesting to note how some players who didnt even play in past years have made a big impact this dual season. For example on the MIchigan team, Nick Beaty, just a 4 star player as a junior, only played vs Nebraska and Purdue as a soph last year. Now as a junior he is 9-2 in dual matches including win vs Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, and NC State mostly at 5. Quite an effort from a guy who didnt play much in past years even tho he lost in 3 vs ranked USC freshman and former blue chip Dostanic. Similarly Connor Johnston who was mainly known from dubs and was maybe 40% winning at 4 last year vs probably an easier slate is 6-4 this spring with big wins vs ranked players from USC and Texas. Not sure how those guys will do when teams move out doors, but it is always great to see patient hardworking kids in the lower end of the lineup/bench earn some big wins and help their teams earn upsets.
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Why “until Brooksby can play?” Why can’t he play now?
 
Okes said:
Why “until Brooksby can play?” Why can’t he play now?
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He’s ‘injured’ / Boland probably only was able to convince him to play a college few matches to try to steal an NCAA title before he turns pro

One-and-done comes to college tennis, hooray!
 
Dubs point to USC. Heck of a rally at 1 in the tiebreak for SC.... 4 straight points to win the breaker 7-5 including 2 pts on Blumberg's serve.
 
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