ODU vs. VT vs. WFU

On April 25th, the boys and girls club tennis team will travel to Blacksburg, VA for a double header match versus Virginia Tech as well as Wake Forest University. It will follow the Davis Cup rules since there is so much tennis to be played in just one day. We will play in a world team tennis format which is, one girls singles, one boys singles, one girls doubles, one boys doubles, and then one mixed doubles. This format puts a lot of stress on the player, we all know that each game now matters as opposed to in a traditional match where we focus on winning the set. Within this format, at the end of the match, all the game scores are tallied and the team with the most games at the end of the day wins the match. Throughout this season, the monarchs have stirred up quite the rivalry between themselves and the Hokies. As a member of the team, I can speak for us all when I say we are really looking forward at a chance for revenge after we lost to them in sectionals in a match tie breaker. That match could not have been closer and we are really looking to redeem ourselves next time. As for Wake Forest University, we have never had to face them in a tournament so we are left very unsure of their abilities on the tennis court. Overall, our main focus is beating VT, if we win against WFU, great, if not we will not be left to upset about it!


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March Madness

For most guys, "It's Christmastime!" according to John Parker. This is what he looks forward to all year. The NCAA tournament gives many young college students a good excuse to take a break from the class work and glue themselves to the television impatiently watching each game to see how successful or unsuccessful their brackets are. However, Parker reminded me, " There's all this talk about bad brackets, but that's why its March Madness. It is actually hard to make a bad bracket because that would entail making picks that never or rarely win, such as the the sixteen, fifteen, or fourteenth seeds. Other than that there are any number of upsets that are difficult to pick. There are so many unknowns in a basketball game that it's ignorant to call someones bracket bad if they've gone out on a limb and picked some upsets that are bound to happen somewhere." I must admit, hearing Parker discuss this talk of bad brackets put my mind at ease after viewing the results of my own tournament bracket. At the conclusion of this upcoming weekend, the tournament will only have their final four remaining after the sweet sixteen and elite eight have battled out their games. Which then leads into the games Parker waits for all year, which is the following weekend. On April 4, the final four teams will be given one last chance to prove themselves before only two of those teams advance to the championship game on April 6. Below is the location where the final four teams will compete in Detroit, Michigan.


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