January Aces; Davis Cup; ITA Women's Team Indoor Underway
My regular first-Thursday edition of the previous month's aces is now available for viewing at The Tennis Recruiting Network. It begins with the Winter National champions, and it ends with Somdev Devvarman of Virginia, who won a Futures event last month in Tampa. I just learned today that Devvarman will be playing Davis Cup for India this weekend in their zonal tie with Uzbekistan. Devvarman will play singles in place of Prakash Amritraj, who is not fully healthy. There's more on why Captain Leander Paes selected Devvarman in this story from the Financial Express.
Injury also figures in the need for shuffling the lineup in Canada's Davis Cup zonal tie with Mexico, with Peter Polansky, the 2006 U.S. Open Junior finalist from Canada, inserted into the singles lineup in place of the injured Frank Dancevic. That announcement is here. Highly ranked juniors and sometime doubles partners Cesar Ramirez and Vasek Pospisil are serving as hitting partners for their respective countries, and the experience is chronicled from Pospisil's perspective here.
And finally, usta.com had this interview with Jesse Levine, who is in Vienna as a practice partner for the remarkably healthy and cohesive U.S. Davis Cup champions, who take on Austria on indoor clay in a World Group tie.
I am planning on being in Madison, Wisc. for the next three days of competition at the ITA Women's Team Indoor, but I've already missed a big upset, with No. 2 seed UCLA falling to North Carolina 4-3. (A TarHeel blog had some comments about the win.) So far there hasn't been a single sweep (three matches are still in progress due to travel delays experienced by some of the teams) among the five played, so it looks to be an exciting weekend. For results and live scoring, see the ITA website.
2 comments:
Re UCLA and NC, I just love a match that ends with the #6 players
competing to clinch the win.
UCI beat Boise State!
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