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perfectchaos007
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LIGHT THE FUCKING TOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Valmy77
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I was thinking that maybe if we had just thrown Pierce in prison midseason we would be a national seed right now.

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On to the Final 4!

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With swimming failing to deliver Texas a title this year, I think this is Texas' first championship of the 2018-2019 academic year. Still a chance to win another in womens/mens golf

Womens’s rowing too. They’re ranked #4. 

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With swimming failing to deliver Texas a title this year, I think this is Texas' first championship of the 2018-2019 academic year. Still a chance to win another in womens/mens golf

Softball is still in it.

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5 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Yep. And according to these announcers Wake is the greatest singles team ever.

Unfortunately these Tennis Channel announces know jack squat about the NCAA

Watched the whole OSU vs. North carolina match and the whole time the male announcer (I assume Andy Katz) kept getting the winner's next opponent wrong. The lady announcer also pronounced Andre Agassi wrong.

Plus if you looked at the 'expert' Andy Katz's draw, he had Texas losing in the round of 32 to Alabama. Laughably moronic.

Anyways...great to see Telles, Markes, Goodwin, and Banzer end their career on this high note

Wonder how much emotional energy Ito, Christian, and Scott will have for their individual tournaments (historically the winning team has a bad performance in the individuals)

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Unfortunately these Tennis Channel announces know jack squat about the NCAA

Watched the whole OSU vs. North carolina match and the whole time the male announcer (I assume Andy Katz) kept getting the winner's next opponent wrong. The lady announcer also pronounced Andre Agassi wrong.

Plus if you looked at the 'expert' Andy Katz's draw, he had Texas losing in the round of 32 to Alabama. Laughably moronic.

Anyways...great to see Telles, Markes, Goodwin, and Banzer end their career on this high note

Wonder how much emotional energy Ito, Christian, and Scott will have for their individual tournaments (historically the winning team has a bad performance in the individuals)

This was honestly as fun as following Soren and Lloyd win the doubles title. 

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Congrats to the "all-Texas" Team including 3 Canadians, a Dane, a Bolivian, a Japanese, and... oh yeah... 2 Ameros!  (LOL! yeah I know half the NCAA is from across the pond or the isthmus).

Anyway, Texas is global, bitches!  Way to go boyz!

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Haha emphasis of 'ALL'. Roditi was a pretty good assistant when he was at Texas from 2000-2002. Instrumental in recruiting Antonio Ruiz (who went on to transfer to Georgia and win an NCAA doubles title after Roditi left). Also think he had a hand in getting Diaz Barraga and Miguel Angeles Reyes-Varela (currently top 80 in the world for doubles).

Though it's hard to say 'no' to Berque right now. And I'm leaning towards Berque being hired right now.. Berque's best players at Michigan were Jason Jung and Evan King, and that was about it- not enough high quality players to hang with conference power Illinois. He was able to sign Cameron Norrie before he got fired (thus leaving Norrie free to go to TCU).

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1 hour ago, Aleemay said:

Haha emphasis of 'ALL'. Roditi was a pretty good assistant when he was at Texas from 2000-2002. Instrumental in recruiting Antonio Ruiz (who went on to transfer to Georgia and win an NCAA doubles title after Roditi left). Also think he had a hand in getting Diaz Barraga and Miguel Angeles Reyes-Varela (currently top 80 in the world for doubles).

Though it's hard to say 'no' to Berque right now. And I'm leaning towards Berque being hired right now.. Berque's best players at Michigan were Jason Jung and Evan King, and that was about it- not enough high quality players to hang with conference power Illinois. He was able to sign Cameron Norrie before he got fired (thus leaving Norrie free to go to TCU).

My friend I used to hit with was a walk-on at Michigan under Berque. I'll probably message him tomorrow to get his thoughts. I did not know he first landed Norrie, that would have definitely been his biggest recruiting "get".Before Center was fired, he inked like 3 or 4 bluechips for next season and if they still come here, we'll be in good shape for a few more years regardless of Berque's recruiting deficiencies. 

I was telling my buddies that the only way Berque becomes our head coach is if the team goes on to win the championship. I won't walk back on that since he did it. He earned the job if he wants it (and who wouldn't?). Not to mention he was a volunteer coach here the year after he was fired from Michigan. 

Also, Michael Venus is doing well in doubles as well. I think he was in the Rome Finals today

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Really happy for Bruce and the team. I've gotten to know Bruce really well since he moved to Austin as he's our neighbor. I'm admittedly biased, but I think he deserves the job. I'm encouraged that others feel the same. I know he's been heavily involved in the recruiting side of things for the past few years, so I assume the relationships he needs in that department are pretty well developed.  

Regarding the match, I was really impressed by the way the guys came out at singles and got up a set in 4 matches to set the tone. Clearly they tuned out all of the hype about how Wake doesn't drop singles points especially at lines 1 - 3. I was most impressed by Yuya and Scott bouncing back. Those matches completely turned in the second set. Obviously, we didn't need Scott's point, but he was on cruise control. 

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Really happy for Bruce and the team. I've gotten to know Bruce really well since he moved to Austin as he's our neighbor. I'm admittedly biased, but I think he deserves the job. I'm encouraged that others feel the same. I know he's been heavily involved in the recruiting side of things for the past few years, so I assume the relationships he needs in that department are pretty well developed.  

You have to assume he learned quite a bit from his stint at Michigan and learned a lot from Center - your first HC job isn't always your best one.  I think he's going to get the job.  

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05.19.2019 | Men's Tennis

Men’s Tennis wins 2019 NCAA National Championship

The Longhorns earned their first Men’s Tennis title in school history with a 4-1 win over No. 3 Wake Forest. 

Orlando, Florida –

The Texas Men's Tennis team won the 2019 NCAA Championship, its first in school history, with a 4-1 win over No. 3 Wake Forest on Sunday in Orlando. It is also the 55th team title in Texas Athletics history.

In a match where the Longhorns showed great resiliency, Texas fought back on several courts to eventually earn its 29th win of the season to just three losses, which is the most wins in school history since 1974 (31-18), during an era when a significant number more matches were played in a season.

"I was really proud of the team, and I'm sure any Longhorn fan would be proud of the way this team represented the state of Texas, not only today, but all year long," interim head coach Bruce Berque said. "I'm super happy they get to have this memory and bond with each other for the rest of their lives. They showed true Texas fight today being able to come back after not winning the doubles point and facing some deficits on a few of the singles court. I couldn't be in greater admiration of the way they competed."

Trailing 1-0 early after dropping the doubles point, junior No. 7 Christian Sigsgaard took down No. 11 Borna Gojo, 6-3, 6-4, at first singles. In the first set with the score tied 2-2, Gojo picked up a break on a deuce point to take a 3-2 lead, but it would be all Sigsgaard from there as he went on a 4-0 run to take the set. The second set was also knotted 2-2 when Gojo took a 3-2 lead, this time on serve, and again Sigsgaard went on a run, and this time 3-0 to take a 5-3 lead. Gojo made one last effort holding serve on a deuce point to cut it to 5-4, but Sigsgaard finished it in the next game and evened the overall match, 1-1.

Senior Rodrigo Banzer would follow just behind Sigsgaard, rallying for a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Siddhant Banthia at sixth singles. Banzer found himself down 5-2 in the first set, but made a furious comeback by winning five-straight games, including finishing and ending with deuce point wins for the set. The second set would start just the opposite, as this time Banzer took leads of 3-0 and 5-1. Banthia ran off three-straight games, including two deuce points to get within 5-4, but Banzer held serve in the last for the victory and a 2-1 lead for Texas.

On the next court over, senior Colin Markesextended the Longhorns' lead to 3-1 shortly afterward by downing Melios Efstathiou, 6-4, 7-5, at fifth singles. Each player secured a break to open the first set, but that would be the last of the breaks all the way to a 5-4 lead for Markes that he reached on a deuce point, and in the next game, he captured the break he needed to take the set. Markes also won the first game of the second set, but used two deuce point games to take the lead and then held serve in the next game for a 3-1 lead. It stayed on serve for three more games until Markes broke to even it and then held in the next game for a 5-4 lead. Efstathiou pulled back even with a deuce game at 5-5, but from there, Markes held and broke for the win, extending the Texas lead to 3-1.

It looked as though it might be senior No. 80 senior Leonardo Telles clinching for the second-straight night as he simultaneously was up a set and in a second-set tiebreaker with No. 50 Bar Botzer at third singles. Telles won the first set, 6-3, on the strength of a 3-0 run in the middle of the set that took the score from 2-2 to 5-2 before the 6-3 final. In the second set, Telles had leads of 3-1 and 5-3, but Botzer answered back on a 3-0 run to take a 6-5 lead. Telles forced a tiebreaker and had two championship points up 6-5 and 8-7, but Botzer was able to force a third set with three-straight points.

That brought junior No. 12 Yuya Ito's match into play against the defending NCAA Singles Champion No. 8 Petros Chrysochos, who took the opening set, 6-3, after starting out with a 4-0 lead. Chrysochos also led, 2-0, in the second set when Ito turned the match around with a 4-0 run that included two deuce points. Chrysochos broke back with a deuce point win of his own to make it 4-3, but Ito closed out the set from there, 6-3. In the third set, Ito established a 3-1 lead and the set stayed on serve from there leading to Ito serving for the championship and taking it at 6-4 sending the team into a dog pile with its first National Championship.

Telles' match along with that of senior No. 55 Harrison Scott both went unfinished, but both gave tremendous efforts that could have come into play. Scott faced Rrezart Cungu with Cungu seemingly heading toward a two-set win, up 6-2, 4-1, however Scott completely flipped the script, coming all the way back to force and win a second-set tiebreaker, 8-6, leading to a third set in which he went on a 5-0 run.

Earlier in the match, Wake Forest won the doubles point to take a 1-0 lead. Ito and freshman Chih Chi Huang got home first at third doubles with a 6-2 win over Banthia and Julian Zlobinsky. The first two games stayed on serve with Wake Forest winning first and then Texas on a deuce point. Ito and Huang claimed a deuce point break in the next game to set up a 4-0 run for a 5-1 advantage. Banthia and Zlobinsky picked up the next game but Huang and Ito finished in on serve.

At second doubles, No. 55 Botzer and Chrysochos downed Markes and Telles, 6-3. The Wake Forest pair got out to a 3-0 lead, and while Markes and Telles pulled back to within 4-2 and 5-3, Botzer and Chrysochos claimed the win in the next game. That left the point up to first doubles where with the match tied, 3-3, No. 63 Gadjiev and Gojo grabbed a key deuce point break against No. 5 Scott and Sigsgaard to take a 4-3 lead that they extended to 5-3 on serve. The Texas duo got one game back, but was unable to break in the final game, falling 6-4.

The Longhorns now have three players moving on to the Singles and Doubles Championships. In singles play that begins on Monday, May 20, junior No. 6 seed Christian Sigsgaard will face Juan Aguilar of Texas A&M at 2 p.m. CT/3 p.m. ET, junior No. 9-16 seed Yuya Ito will square off against John McNally of Ohio State at 3 p.m. CT/4 p.m. ET, and senior Harrison Scott will play No. 9-16 seed William Blumberg (9-16) of North Carolina at 12 p.m. CT/1 p.m. ET. 

In doubles competition that starts on Tuesday, May 21, the 5-8 seed of Scott and Sigsgaard will meet Simen Bratholm and Nick Brookes of Northwestern at a time to be determined. Tennis Channel coverage of the singles and doubles play begins at 3 p.m. CT/4 p.m. ET each day.

No. 2 (2 seed) Texas 4, No. 3 (4 seed) Wake Forest 1

Singles 
1. #7 Christian Sigsgaard (UT) def. #11 Borna Gojo (WF), 6-3, 6-4
2. #12 Yuya Ito (UT) def. #8 Petros Chrysochos (WF), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
3. #80 Leonardo Telles (UT) vs. #50 Bar Botzer (WF), 6-3, 6-7 (8-10), 1-0, unf.
4. #55 Harrison Scott (UT) vs. Rrezart Cungu (WF), 2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 5-0, unf.
5. Colin Markes (UT) def. Melios Efstathiou (WF), 6-4, 7-5
6. Rodrigo Banzer (UT) def. Siddhant Banthia (WF), 7-5, 6-4

Doubles
1. #63 Alan Gadjiev/Borna Gojo (WF) def. #5 Harrison Scott/Christian Sigsgaard (UT), 6-4
2. #55 Bar Botzer/Petros Chrysochos (WF) def. Colin Markes/Leonardo Telles (UT), 6-3
3. Chih Chi Huang/Yuya Ito (UT) def. Siddhant Banthia/Julian Zlobinsky (WF), 6-2

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Great video recap of the journey- good crown, you can see the Turati twins in multiple parts cheering the team on, I also believe that Daniella Roldan (played two years before transferring) was also cheering the team at 0:14

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5 hours ago, Js1 said:

You have to assume he learned quite a bit from his stint at Michigan and learned a lot from Center - your first HC job isn't always your best one.  I think he's going to get the job.  

"I took a team rocked by scandal and won the NCAA title with them. I humbly suggest I'm able to do the job."

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12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How do you recruit in this sport, with so many international players?  Travel the world?  Hit up junior tournaments?  Talk with trainers and coaches?

Yep for a lot of the big Division I schools, coaches will travel quite extensively to junior tournaments- all the Grand Slams, Eddie Herr, Orange Bowl, USTA national events, Junior European championships, etc. These trips are actually in the recruiting budget. It's also important to build up a network of contacts who can recommend junior players who can't afford to play international tournaments. This is why coaches who are from abroad will have a leg up recruiting in their home countries. Ever wonder how Joffe (a former South African national coach) was able to get Poluta so quickly after he was hired so late? Also, Christian mentioned on how important that Soren had played at UT before.

For the smaller schools, coaches use recruiting services to scout players. There's a whole section of YouTube with endless amounts of internationals showing clips of their games.

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2 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Individuals underway. Ito won, Harry lost, and Sigsgaard Hasn't played.  Looks like all the Wake Forest players withdrew from individuals 🤔 

Sigs actually lost something like 2 and 3 to an Ag

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