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Jared7

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Jerry Lopez and Reese Stalder just won a fairly comfortable match 6-3, 6-4 over Cal's Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat to advance to the Round of 8 at the NCAA's in Athens. Next up will be either Baylor's Juan Benitez and Will Little or Florida's Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildson. Perez is the guy who just beat Rybo in singles and they're seeded 3rd and Baylor, is well, Baylor. And that little s*@t Will Little is a notorious bad line-caller.
 
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Jared7 said:
Jerry Lopez and Reese Stalder just won a fairly comfortable match 6-3, 6-4 over Cal's Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat to advance to the Round of 8 at the NCAA's in Athens. Next up will be either Baylor's Juan Benitez and Will Little or Florida's Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildson. Perez is the guy who just beat Rybo in singles and they're seeded 3rd and Baylor, is well, Baylor. And that little s*@t Will Little is a notorious bad line-caller.
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Little will probably be the only person I ever dislike in tennis and he managed to do that in the 5 minutes I watched his match
 
Peacefrog

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Jared7 said:
Jerry Lopez and Reese Stalder just won a fairly comfortable match 6-3, 6-4 over Cal's Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat to advance to the Round of 8 at the NCAA's in Athens. Next up will be either Baylor's Juan Benitez and Will Little or Florida's Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildson. Perez is the guy who just beat Rybo in singles and they're seeded 3rd and Baylor, is well, Baylor. And that little s*@t Will Little is a notorious bad line-caller.
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Baylor folks aren't typically known for their ethics.
 
Jared7

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It'll be Benitez and Little for Reese and Jerry tomorrow as the Baylor duo upset Perez and Ingildsen 6-7, 6-2 10-8 earlier today. So, it'll be TCU v. Baylor yet again. I hope the ump has a good pair of glasses available when Little is doing the line-calling. It's scheduled for 3:30 p.m. (CDT).
 
Jared7

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By making the quarterfinals, Stalder and Lopez both achieved All American status yesterday, becoming the 23rd and 24th TCU tennis players to achieve that status in TCU history. And because there have been many multiple honorees, it's the 49th time that has happened since 1977 (I think Randy Crawford was the first). Reese and Jerry join Cam Norrie, who earlier achieved All American by being the #1 ranked player.

In the TCU-Baylor match in April, Stalder/Lopez did not play Benitez/Little - instead, they were at the #2 slot and beat Schretter/Bendeck 6-4. Benitez/Little went unfinished against Rybakov/Nunez at #1.
 
Jared7

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Tomorrow's Final 4 match will be a really tough one for Lopez and Stalder - it'll be against the #1 seeded Georgia team of Robert Loeb and Jan Zielinski, who have been ranked #1 for much of the year and who barely beat the Cinderella doubles team from Valparaiso 6-3, 5-7 and 11-9 in the superbreaker today .

In the singles, Thai-son Kwiatkowski, who played terrible in the team finals against North Carolina, got real hot and upset Torpegaard yesterday and beat Georgia Tech's Christopher Eubanks today.
 
Purp

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Jared7 said:
Tomorrow's Final 4 match will be a really tough one for Lopez and Stalder - it'll be against the #1 seeded Georgia team of Robert Loeb and Jan Zielinski, who have been ranked #1 for much of the year and who barely beat the Cinderella doubles team from Valparaiso 6-3, 5-7 and 11-9 in the superbreaker today .

In the singles, Thai-son Kwiatkowski, who played terrible in the team finals against North Carolina, got real hot and upset Torpegaard yesterday and beat Georgia Tech's Christopher Eubanks today.
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The auto parts king?
 
Jared7

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The auto parts king?
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I'm not sure what you're referring to, but back in the 1920's, there was a Leopold and Loeb duo that was quite infamous - Zielinski and Loeb may not be that dangerous, but they're a formidable doubles team. And, if TCU can somwhow advance, Reese and Jerry may well have to face Mansouri/Seraphim from Wake (in the other semi), who also spent much of the year at #1. Stalder and Lopez were mostly around #30 much of the year although back in the fall, Reese and Trevor Johnson were in the Top 10 and won the ITA Texas Regional.

This is the 5th TCU team that has ever made it to the doubles Final 4, but the most recent time was in 2006. But a Frog team has never won the championship - something (like the hat blowing incident in 1996 when Weir-Smith and Fisher were in the semis) always seems to happen to prevent it. It would be cool to win it, but I'm not exactly counting on it.
 
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Purp

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Jared7 said:
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but back in the 1920's, there was a Leopold and Loeb duo that was quite infamous - Zielinski and Loeb may not be that dangerous, but they're a formidable doubles team. And, if TCU can somwhow advance, Reese and Jerry may well have to face Monsouri/Seraphim from Wake (in the other semi), who also spent much of the year at #1. Stalder and Lopez were mostly around #30 much of the year although back in the fall, Reese and Trevor Johnson were in the Top 10 and won the ITA Texas Regional.

This is the 5th TCU team that has ever made it to the doubles Final 4, but the most recent time was in 2006. But a Frog team has never won the championship - something (like the hat blowing incident in 1996 when Weir-Smith and Fisher were in the semis) always seems to happen to prevent it. It would be cool to win it, but I'm not exactly counting on it.
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Tommy Boy reference.
 
Jared7

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Warm-ups have begun for what is perhaps one of the biggest TCU tennis matches in history as Stalder/Lopez attempt to make the NCAA finals against Georgia's Loeb/Zielensky - the other semi between Wake's Mansouri/Seraphim and OU's Papa/Harris will be played simultaneously. In singles, Kwiatkowski has already advanced to the finals by beating Stanford's Tom Fawcett and Blumberg just beat Borges so it'll be an all-ACC singles final. You can follow along with streaming at the Georgia site - the link is available on the TCU men's Tennis twitter page.

Edit - I think they're going to await the finish of the women's singles semis one of which has just gone to the 3rd set and the other is about to.
 
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Jared7

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The Frogs had a great run, but they lose 3-6, 6-7 (4-7) in the semis of the NCAA's. The #1 team was just too good today and the season ends. 3 All Americans, an Elite 8 team finish, a Round of 32 singles performance and a doubles Final 4, together with a 17-match winning streak, a Big12 regular season championship and a Big 12 tournament championship. It could have been better, but it wasn't bad. Hopefully, Rybo will return, along with Nunez, Nava, Johnson, Stalder, Escobar, Gray and Mancini. Thanks to Cam, Jerry, Hudson and Trey for their careers!
 
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Virginia's Thai-son frickin Kwiatkowski won the NCAA singles today 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) over Carolina's William Blumberg and OU's Spencer Papa and Andrew Harris upset Loeb/Zielinski 4-6, 6-2 10-6 in doubles. It could well have been Cam Norrie and Stalder/Lopez in both.
 
jake102

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Final singles and doubles rankings came out today.

Norrie ends the season at #1. I assume this is a first in TCU tennis history. Best player in the nation. His final statistical ranking is the best since Steve Johnson in 2011.

Rybakov ends at #19, Nunez at #91 and Lopez at #114

Lopez and Stalder end the year at #12. Very impressive.
 
Longfrog

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Earlier today Norrie won his first match as a full-time pro, beating world #71 Malek Jaziri of Tunisia in 3 sets at the Aegon Surbiton challenger. Next up is #123 Sergiy Stakhovskiy. It looks to me like they are about to go on Court 6 (schedule was probably condensed due to weather). Live scoring is here, for those inclined:

http://www.protennislive.com/LSHD/m...our=1&lang=en&ref=http://www.atpworldtour.com
 
Longfrog

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Norrie falls 6-4, 7-6 (2). The serve was the difference as he got out-aced 13 to 1, and he had 5 double faults to his opponent's none.
 
Jared7

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The British papers are all touting Cam's chances to get a wildcard into Wimbledon - his win over ATP #71 Jaziri was his highest ranked pro win ever and his #248 ranking will surely rise. As a local Brit making some noise, he's got a chance although there's no real way to predict it.

Alex Rybakov made All-American status as well as Norrie, Stalder and Lopez - the full lists were released earlier this week. Alex has entered and is in the main draw at both the Buffalo and Rochester Futures tourneys in the next couple of weeks.

Also, the field was selected yesterday for next January's ITA Kickoff. TCU will be hosting and the other attendees were selected by means of a draft where they selected where they wanted to go - we will be hosting Louisville, Duke and San Diego. All are fairly tough teams (especially Duke) so our path to the National Indoors next year may be fairly difficult.

[Edit - Reese Stalder is also in the qualifying draw at the Winston-Salem Futures tourney this week. And both Alex and Reese are entered into the Tulsa Futures tourney in 3 weeks - Alex as a qualifier and Reese as an alternate].
 
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cdsfrog

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Speaking of tennis. Nadal just annihilated Thiem in the French. Man if he wins 10 french opens....just ridiculous. Final with Wawa up next who won a ridiculously draining 5 setter against Murray.

Nadal 18-0 in sets this tournament.
 
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