Michigan with a decent showing but they don't really have the depth to compete top to bottom with UVA. Ohio State will probably pull this one out vs UCF (4-3, maybe?), but this team just isn't up to the level of the past few years. Kim loses at #1 in straights to a guy he beat last year 6-0, 6-2, and whose record coming in was 10-8 splitting time at #1-3 singles. #6 Li is hobbling around on one leg, down 0-4 in the 3rd after coming up gimpy at the end of 2nd set tiebreak. Over and over Buckeyes losing the deciding point and not consolidating breaks, giving them right back.
that hurts, I left at 4-2 up and come back, he lost 4 straight to lose the match, also very unfortunate at #6 with the injury
Anthrop has done worse before. Like at Individuals in the fall, where he was up 5-0 in 2nd set and lost 7 straight games to lose the match. In the past 5-8 years or so I can't remember a worse loss than this. Nothing against UCF of course, they came to play and didn't let up, but OSU really didn't show any kind of spark. When was the last time Ohio State lost to a team outside the top 20 (especially indoors)?
when will Bobleenov....post that Ty Tucker is horribly overpaid...and that Ohio State should win the NCAA's every year?
yep, Duke / Ripoll now up a break in the 3rd in the decider
yeah tons of overrules in the final set - this electronic line calling is a mixed bag, corrects more errors but lets the players attempt to steal more close calls, because it doesn't come with the same automatic penalties for certain number of overrules - frankly I think the penalties for getting overruled a certain number of times should remain
agree hype machines can be annoyingis alex Grushikin a bit of hype machine or what ?? He just said this college tennis is better than Super Bowl, NBA all star game, MLB world series. Really man??
I'm just glad there are no Stanford fans on this board making those kinds of predictions.
heard from reliable source they going into PPS on the 4th overrule
Landau being out has hurt but Planelles and Williams have not delivered to the expected degree so far. Also Petrovic playing up at 3 seems like an odd lineup choice.
eh, nothing about this weekend changes my overall opinion of the team very much - i expect them to make it to final 16 in NCAAs and maybe have a shot at going farther than that if they get some breaks with peaking at the right time, avoiding juggernauts in the draw in the rd of 16
makes me worry even less about Duke - San Diego is a heck of a team, in that second tier behind the real national championship contenders, and Duke was as close as you can get to a W despite losing dubs
But, ultimately, that would prove to be their best showing of the weekend, whoops
Not true. Zheng went 2-1 with straight set Ws over Kim of Ohio State and Williams of Duke.Is michael Zheng going to win a single match this week ?? he's the reighning NCAA singles champion and yet he's lost every match he played this week....LOL
For Duke, it has been very underwhelming. Williams can't find a win it seems. Ripoli got clinched on all three days. Landau either hurt or worse. Brown not in the lineup. Only ones that are meeting expectations are Petrovic and Winegar. For Ohio State, Li has been basically a lock down low until he broke/sprained his ankle up match points against UCF. Kim has been meeting expectations whereas Jansen needs to do some soul searching as he can't seem to buy a win against good players.
I noted last spring that Ohio State was a program not using transfers and then they promptly completely changed their strategy in by getting multiple transfer starters in one year.
Ryan Keckley and his team are amazing....
