Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Whitties start the season 1-1


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Originally uploaded by jeffnortham

The Whitties opened their schedule on Saturday with a double header vs NAIA power Lewis-Clark State College and DI Idaho. Our recent matches against LCSC have been competitive. In fact last year we lost a heartbreak 5-4 to the Warriors. This year we were able to turn the tables with a narrow 5-4 win.

In doubles the #2 team of Christoph Fuchs and Quin Miller powered to a quick 8-0. At #3 Dan Wilson and Justin Hayashi posted a solid 8-2 victory. We couldn't compete the doubles sweep as Etienne Moshevich and Nadeem Kassam lost 8-3.

In singles I was very proud of hard the guys competed. Most of the matches could of gone either way and we were able to win 2 of the matches in 3 sets. Perhaps the most gratifying match of the day was Etienne's 3 set win at #1 singles to clinch the team victory. Last year at this same time ET suffered a major shoulder injury that forced him out of tennis for the rest of the year. He has worked incredibly hard on his shoulder rehabilitation and is playing/competing incredibly hard.

Match results
Doubles
#1 Moshevich/Kassam lost Dufour/Berhane 8-3
#2 Miller/Fuchs def Mermut/Stone 8-0
#3 Hayashi/Wilson def Chong/Nibley 8-2
Singles
#1 Moshevich def Dufour 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
#2 Bailey lost Berhane 6-4, 7-6
#3 Wilson def Stone 6-2, 7-6
#4 Hayashi def Mermut 6-4, 1-6, 4-4 ret injury
#5 Kassam lost Chong 7-5, 6-2
#6 Cappel lost Nibley 6-3, 1-6, 10-8

Immediately following the LCSC match we took to the courts to play a very tough Idaho team. Being DI, Idaho is able to offer athletic scholarships and fields a team with a very international flavor. Also 3 of their players have earned ATP points.

Because we were playing back-to-back matches I rotated the line-up to keep people fresh and to give more players match opportunities. Even though we got swept 7-0 (DI scoring) highlights of the day were Christoph's and Adriel's singles matches. Both matches were close 3 set affairs that could of gone either way.

Match results
Doubles
#1 Miller/Fuchs lost Kuzntsov/Joitoiv 8-5
#2 Kassam/Cappel lost Huynh/Chalkley 8-2
#3 Bailey/Borshansky lost Shin/Glukhov 8-2

Singles
#1 Bailey lost Joitoiv 6-4, 6-1
#2 Wilson lost Glukhov 6-1, 6-1
#3 Fuchs lost Huynh 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
#4 Miller lost Chalkley 6-2, 6-0
#5 Follows lost Shin 6-0, 6-3
#6 Borshansky lost McDonald 3-6, 7-5, 10-6

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Mens tennis Fall GPA!


David
Originally uploaded by jeffnortham

WOW, I'm absolutely floored at last semester's team GPA. I'm used to the guys pumping out high numbers, but last semester was the highest team GPA ever...a whopping 3.6!

As you can see from the picture even Jasper and David spent time studying while at Roland Garros this Fall!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Updated Stats

On the right side of the blog are links to updated (after last season) stats for last year and career records. The career page has several different sheet that are sorted by different fields. 

For those readers that receive updates via email here is the direct link to:

Enjoy!