I have been on the college tennis scene for almost 20 years and I never witnessed what I watched today.

Early on the first round match between Texas Tech and Washington looked like one of the biggest mismatches ever played. Tech won the doubles with little fanfare. The singles began and they quickly won at #1 and #2 in straight sets and in short order. It looked like a wipe out. 3-0 Tech and the Huskies were tired and out of it.

All of that changed at #6 singles. The Tech guy at six won the first set 6-1 and was at 5-3, 40-15 serving. He proceeded to lose that game and eventually the second set tiebreaker to split.

Now it is 3-0 Tech with all four remaining matches going to a fourth set. The Red Raiders never challenged again. U Dub won every third set in a runaway to win the match.

It was the biggest collapse I have ever seen in college tennis. I felt really badly for Tim Segal. He is a good coach and a friend and is one of the good guys in college tennis.

His team looked like a group that was seriously going to challenge Texas on Saturday. I still cannot believe it.

Wow, what a start to the tournament.

It does happen, and it's pretty shocking when it does. Hopefully, we can avoid any meltdowns in the immediate future!

That was the talk all over the Mitchell Tennis Center. Feel sorry for Tim, but sometimes thats the way it goes. I bet its a quiet trip back to Lubbock.

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Now it is 3-0 Tech with all four remaining matches going to a fourth set.

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Only matches in college to play 3 out of 5 sets

bigfoot....

Sorry if I was not clear. Let me try again.

Tech won the doubles and #1 and #2 singles. There were then 4 matches left on court. All four of the matches went to the third set.

Hope that clears things up.

Thanks. Just giving you a hard time, we all know what you meant.