Matt finished up at the ITA’s 2-2 finishing 7th place. Yesterday Matt started the day with a very rough backdraw match versus Mike Greenberg of Kenyon. Normally one wouldn’t expect to the 2008 NCAA III singles champion in the backdraw but that was Matt’s opponent. As with his previous matches Matt started off smoking! He quickly went up 3-0 and had several break points to take a 4-0 lead. Unfortunately he wasn’t able to convert any of the break points and Greenberg started clawing his way back into the match. Matt served for the 1st set at 5-3 but was broken after a long game. The rest of the 1st set was a battle with Greenberg prevailing 7-6. In the second set Greenberg broke early and held on winning a tight 7-6, 6-4 match.
Oct 172009
Oct 162009
This morning Matt squared off against Middlebury’s Andy Peters in the 1st round of the ITA’s. Matt started off the match where he left off yesterday…on fire! In fact I think the heat from Matt’s smoking forehand raised the court temperature a good 15 degrees! The first part of the set was some of the best tennis I have seen Matt play. He was absolutely blistering the ball and went up 3-0 and had a break point to go up 4-0. However the Middlebury kept a level head and battled his way back into the match. Playing way behind the baseline the Middlebury player kept digging out one extra ball forcing Matt to continually come up with the goods. Unfortunately Matt couldn’t keep up his blistering play and ended up losing 6-4, 6-2.
A bit of a disappointing loss for Matt. He played pretty well most of the match and was in control of the first set only to see it slip through his fingers. Doesn’t get any easier for Matt tomorrow has he plays the #2 seed Michael Greenberg of Kenyon (he won the NCAA III singles title two years ago) who was upset in his first match of the tournament.
