Season Opener...

Hello all. It is an exciting time as tomorrow we will open another season of tennis and another quest for an NCAA D2 National Championship.

We will not open the season with a soft opponent. In fact, the Red Storm of St. John's University are a force this year and will probably among the 25 best teams in NCAA D1. We will certainly get an idea of how good we can be tomorrow but by no means is your Clipper team as good today as it will be in a few months. We have improved quite a bit in this last week and will only get better as time goes by. This is a very young team with tremendous potential and it will be nice to see how we do against a strong opponent tomorrow.

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Clippers Defeat Red Storm...

Today turned out to be a beautiful day in terms of the weather in spite of a rainy forecast. It also turned into a great day for tennis and a win over St. John's University 5-4 (click here for box score).

Playing once again without Dani and his lingering injury and Felix (flu) we still jumped out to a 2-1 lead after the doubles. A bit disappointed in the effort and intensity at #1 (Geza and Tamas) but #2 and #3 picked up the slack and pushed us to the lead. I was certainly pleased with Ricardo and Andrey at #2 playing together for the first time and beating a tough SJU team. Andreas and David continued their roll and won easily at #3.

The singles featured some pretty high quality and exciting tennis from both teams and we were able to win at 3 positions to clinch the match. Tamas was particularly solid today playing in his last home match as a Clipper. It has been a great career for Tamas and there are still a few more wins for him in the near future. It is too bad that Felix was not well enough to play in this one but I am sure he will be ready to contribute in the NCAA tournament and end his college tennis on a high note.

We now await the NCAA tournament bracket announcement tomorrow. We will be the #1 seed in the East region and have a bye in the first round. At this time, we are not sure where we will play and who our opponent will be but we will be ready regardless. Check back tomorrow and I will be sure to let you know the particulars.

Be well and nuff said...

Tough loss...

Well folks, we were finally defeated by our NCAA I opponent St. John's University 4-3 (click here for boxscore).

I certainly had my concerns about this match as St. John's was a much tougher team than what we had been playing since our spring break time in Florida in early March. As a result, it was difficult for our guys to play to their best level. This is understandable.

Also, the loss served as a good lesson to us all that we will have to practice and prepare much better in the future if we expect to compete for the NCAA II title in May. Frankly, there were absolutely some great things displayed on the court but unfortunately, for whatever reason, we had several instances of poor choice making as well. These choices at inopportune moments cost us the match.

The good news is that we still have time to get back to work and return to the good tennis so as to be hungry and ready for the championship events to come.

We will travel back to Philadelphia, PA tomorrow to play two Saturday matches versus Philadelphia University @ 11:00am and Chestnut Hill College @ 3pm. Who knows, if we play well, maybe a trip back to Pat's King of Steaks...

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