The craziness of the last few days finally culminated on Thursday with the inevitable announcement from the NCAA confirming what we all knew was coming - the 2020 spring season and subsequent NCAA Championships were officially cancelled. The coronavirus, which has been sweeping the planet over the last several months, finally started to ramp up in the United States and after the number of cases spiked up conferences and schools started to pull the plug on fans attending events and then ultimately calling everything off.  Was the quick decision to cancel the season too rash? Only time will te ..read more

USC may have been the top ranked team in the country headed into the 2020 ITA Men's National Team Indoor Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, but most thought the winner would come from the top half of a draw which was loaded full of stalwarts such as Ohio State, North Carolina, and Texas. However when the ice had thawed in chilly Madison it was the No. 2 seeded Trojans that were hoisting the hardware after claiming their first indoor title since 2012, fourth overall, with an authoritative 4-1 win over the No. 4 seed North Carolina.  Just one day earlier USC was on the ropes and getting a st ..read more

I just dusted off my live scoring page and added links for this weekend's ITA Kickoff matches - I still have more to add for Saturday/Sunday but they should all be there for today's matches. Unfortunately I don't see myself being able to do any kind of match recaps because I won't have that kind of time but I figured the scoring links/schedule were better than nothing.    ITA Kick Off Weekend ..read more

History was made on Saturday with Paul Jubb becoming the first South Carolina man to win the NCAA Singles Championship after the junior from Hull, England, halted the 31-match winning streak of Mississippi State senior Nuno Borges.  Jubb, who also became the first British man to win the NCAA Singles Championship, took the early advantage after breaking Borges's opening service game but Borges broke back and held for 2-1. Jubb would regain the lead with a break on the deciding point for 4-3 and then after holding on the deciding point he'd break one more time to take the opening set 6-3.  Jub ..read more

The third time was the charm for Nuno Borges after the Mississippi State senior advanced to the finals of the NCAA Men's Singles Championship after a straight set win over TCU senior Alex Rybakov. Borges was playing in the NCAA Semifinals for the third year in a row but after losses the last two years he put it all together on Friday and became the first MSU men's player to advance to the NCAA Singles Final.   The opening set was back and forth with a total of five breaks of serve with the last coming when Borges broke Rybakov's 5-6 service game after Rybakov had three set points at 40/15 ..read more

Despite a slew of early upsets the top two women's seeds still remain in what will be an ACC-heavy semifinals while on the men's side it'll be an upperclassmen-laden semifinals with three of the top four seeds still alive.  Women's top seed Miami junior Estela Perez-Somarriba advanced to the semifinals for the second time in three years after a 6-4, 6-4 win over Illinois sophomore Asuka Kawai. Perez-Somarriba on how she felt her match today went, "I think it took me awhile to get used to her ball, especially the serve. Once I was able to figure that out, I think that I was more confident and ..read more

The singles draws have reached the quarterfinal round with only two seeds remaining on the women's side (top two seeds) while 5 of the top 8 men's seeds remain though there was a big upset in the Round of 16. The big upset came when Florida freshman Sam Riffice came back from a set down to knock out on of the favorites No. 2 seed JJ Wolf (Ohio State) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Wolf entered the match with a 35-1 singles record (31 straight set wins) and had only dropped 7 sets all season but Riffice was able to get it going in the last two sets. Riffice on how he fought through after dropping the first se ..read more

The first two days of the individuals have been completed in Orlando with 11 of the top 16 women's seeds going home early while 9 of the men's top 16 advanced to the Round of 16 including 7 of the top 8. The opening round on Monday claimed 4 of the top 8 women's seeds with No. 3 Kate Fahey (Michigan), No. 4 Ingrid Gamarra Martins (S Carolina), No. 5 Makenna Jones (UNC), and No. 8 Sophie Whittle (Gonzaga) are going down. The only men's top 8 seed to lose in the first two round was Texas's Christian Sigsgaard who fell on Monday to Texas A&M's Juan Carlos Aguilar. I have the notable results ..read more

For the second year in a row, third time in the last four years, and 20th time overall the Stanford Cardinal are the NCAA Women's National Champion after the No. 3 seed defeated No. 1 Georgia 4-0. The Cardinal finished the year on a 23-match winning streak and by defeating Georgia they avenged their only loss of the season which came in the semifinals of the National Team Indoors in Seattle.  Stanford won the doubles point for the 23rd time in 29 matches after picking up wins at No. 2 and No. 3. The first match to finish came at No. 1 where Georgia's Lourdes Carle and Katarina Jokic rolled t ..read more

For the first time in school history the Texas Longhorns are the NCAA Men's National Champions after the No. 2 seed defeated the defending NCAA Champs Wake Forest 4-1. It was a wild year in Austin that saw longtime head coach Michael Center get dismissed after his involvement in the big admissions scandal and then a month later the program achieved a No. 1 national ranking for the first time in program history. The upperclassmen-laden roster stuck together during the tough times and despite a somewhat surprising loss in the Big XII Tournament to Baylor they hit their peak during the NCAA Tour ..read more