05-17-2018, 01:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-17-2018, 01:09 PM by ColoradoTree.)
Scheduling note: we will play the winner of the South Carolina-Georgia match at 12:00pm Eastern/9:00am Pacific on Saturday. #3 Duke is playing during that same window, so if weather forces the matches indoors, it'll be our turn to drive to Chapel Hill, as the higher seed gets to stay and play at Wake. If we play outside, it'll be on the Lower Courts, not the Leighton Family Courts.
South Carolina is up 1-0 after taking the doubles point. So far in singles, most matches are lopsided--Georgia has good leads on Courts 1 and 6 (took both first sets 6-1) and is up a break on 5 (4-2), South Carolina likes where it is on Courts 2 (5-2) and 3 (4-2), and Court 4 is tied 3-3 early.
Let's hope for an exhausting marathon of a match where most matches go into tough third sets, eh? Though we don't play the winner until Saturday, so there's enough time to recover. (It's the final that can be rough that way, since the final is played the day after the semis--it hurt us last year as Taylor Davidson won an epic three-setter on a bum leg, and just didn't have enough left in the tank in her third set against Florida in the title match. I'm not sure I've ever been so shocked by a result than Higuchi losing 6-0, 6-0 in that one. That's what she usually did to people. We were close in that one, though, even though Florida won 4-1. Arbuthnott was up a break in her third set, and Lampl was on serve in hers.)
Some official quotes from the NCAA site: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/wake...Qutoes.pdf
Not much that's terribly newsworthy there, but the UNC coach seemed deflated and highlighted how they've been a top 2 seed the past two years but just couldn't get over the hump vs. Stanford each year. The fact that they have all six singles players coming back bodes well for their chances next year, but then again, so do we.
(That said, the incoming recruiting class has two blue chips, which would mean we'd be at 9 scholarships in an 8-scholarship-limit sport, so I remain confused on how that's going to work out, unless we've managed to persuade a freshman with some money that we'll hook them up with a scholarship after her freshman year, in which case Lele Forood is the world's greatest saleswoman. The alternative is that someone on this year's roster is transferring or going pro, which I wouldn't be super pumped about. But if we end up with 9 blue chips on next year's roster? That's just silly good.)
South Carolina is up 1-0 after taking the doubles point. So far in singles, most matches are lopsided--Georgia has good leads on Courts 1 and 6 (took both first sets 6-1) and is up a break on 5 (4-2), South Carolina likes where it is on Courts 2 (5-2) and 3 (4-2), and Court 4 is tied 3-3 early.
Let's hope for an exhausting marathon of a match where most matches go into tough third sets, eh? Though we don't play the winner until Saturday, so there's enough time to recover. (It's the final that can be rough that way, since the final is played the day after the semis--it hurt us last year as Taylor Davidson won an epic three-setter on a bum leg, and just didn't have enough left in the tank in her third set against Florida in the title match. I'm not sure I've ever been so shocked by a result than Higuchi losing 6-0, 6-0 in that one. That's what she usually did to people. We were close in that one, though, even though Florida won 4-1. Arbuthnott was up a break in her third set, and Lampl was on serve in hers.)
Some official quotes from the NCAA site: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/wake...Qutoes.pdf
Not much that's terribly newsworthy there, but the UNC coach seemed deflated and highlighted how they've been a top 2 seed the past two years but just couldn't get over the hump vs. Stanford each year. The fact that they have all six singles players coming back bodes well for their chances next year, but then again, so do we.
(That said, the incoming recruiting class has two blue chips, which would mean we'd be at 9 scholarships in an 8-scholarship-limit sport, so I remain confused on how that's going to work out, unless we've managed to persuade a freshman with some money that we'll hook them up with a scholarship after her freshman year, in which case Lele Forood is the world's greatest saleswoman. The alternative is that someone on this year's roster is transferring or going pro, which I wouldn't be super pumped about. But if we end up with 9 blue chips on next year's roster? That's just silly good.)