Men come in at 12 and women at 7.

Obviously WAY too early to tell anything substantive, but impressive none the less. Should be an interesting year on the courts. Hopefully we'll get some shots to fall our way and make another deep run later in the spring.

Loving it

Awesome. Women should be solid once again, and I really hope our men's coaches can finally get the most out of all that talent that is coming back. For the men's team we have everyone back right?

Both teams are very talented from what I hear. I believe the men have everyone back plus they are adding a player or two this semester. The women are supposed to be really good again just a bunch of new faces.

In other tennis news Austin Krajicek has advanced to second round of qulifying for the Australian Open and is ranked 90th in the world in doubles rankings.

And he owes all of his success to Coach Denton

Austin fell to Rhyne Williams 6(4), 6(4) in the second round of qualifying at the Aus Open. Not sure if he will be playing in the Doubles draw or not, it has not been released yet.

If Kraijcek had comparable coaching in college to what Ryne Williams had at Tennessee he probably would have won!

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Double header on Sunday to open the season. Not sure that all have returned from fall , but know there is a new guy from Russia. Will be good to see them play.

Is collegiate doubles not being played to 8 anymore?

The NCAA is trailing a format until mid Feb where doubles is played to 6 with tiebreaker at 5 all, no ad scoring and no pre match warmup, match stopped when doubles point is decided. Singles is tiebreaker at 5 all, no ad scoring, no match warm up. Doubles was over in the blink of an eye at the match yesterday.

...and I haven't talked to anyone yet who liked it.

I see this becoming a thing very much like NCAA golf: they do this all year, and then the last few rounds of the NCAA tournament go back to the traditional format, or vice-versa.

If they want to speed the game up, put a clock on it, and go to no-ad scoring once you hit a certain time limit.

Make doubles a no-ad 8 game pro set
No 10 minute break before singles
No warmup before singles (it's rather worthless anyways)
If you still want to speed it up, play a super tiebreaker for the third set in singles

There you go. USTA league play has used the Coman 3rd set tie break for years now.

The team played well yesterday with two 7-0 wins. Impressive particularly were Vinsant, Szabo and Adams. Doubles teams all looked good, particularly Vinsant and Adams.

I don't like the 3rd set breaker, but it is an easy fix for the time problem. Only problem is, they won't want to change to it for individual championships after the team portion is done. It doesn't prepare the players for the professional level

Good job today Ags! The women struggled in a few spots especially at 5 singles. Doubles was tight and so were a couple other singles matches. A win is a win but wasn't pretty. Not sure why the men schedule so many of these bad teams early in the year. Not sure what exactly that is accomplishing. The men seem much more talented than the women this year. Will be interesting to see how the year goes for both programs. I always enjoy when both teams are playing on the same day! Makes for a fun day of tennis!

I agree with you. I think the mens team is more talented this year than the women. We are young on both teams. Makes it exciting. Anyone know if Paula is hurt? And how does Saska Gavrilovska play? I know she had a great weekend last weekend.

And the women won the tourney today!

WHOOOOOOOOOOP!

Way to go, ladies! Fightin' Texas Aggies gettin' it done!

Well, the girls didn't actually win the tournament today. They won the second round and advanced to the national indoor tournament in Virginia on Feb. 7-10

Still a great win for the ladies!

Way to go Aggies! Good Luck in the rest of the tourney!

Women's singles will be interesting. Tina will have her hands full at #1, but that's always the case no matter what or who we are playing. Hopefully she stays strong. Anna Mamalat holding down #2 may be a challenge. Pretty big jump for her from 5,6 last year playing at .500 ball to 2. Saska at #3 is going to be a case of keeping her head in the game and not fall apart if a few shots don't fall for her. Ines should be stable at 4 and hold on to a strong winning percentage. Jana and Stefania at #6 ought to be rock solid. But injuries are the thing this year, along with a pretty young lineup. It seems like we've had more injuries, long lingering injuries especially, more so than we've had in the past few years. I wasn't really looking for her, but didn't even see Paula this weekend. Doubles should offer an interesting mix for Howard and Mark. #1 is set barring injuries, but 2 and 3 could be quite a few combinations thorughout the year.

I would imagine their will be some juggling going on in the women's lineup in the singles especially. Looks like Howard and Mark will have their work cut out for them this year.

Pretty cool that the men are hosting the national indoor tourney. What's not cool is A&M does not have their own indoor facility and they will be playing in Houston. How is it possible that a school with all the money in the world doesn't have a top indoor facility? Every major school around has a nice indoor facility but Texas A&M. Amazing! Does anyone know of the plan or is there a plan to get indoors here in Aggieland?

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^not every major school has one.

We have plans for one

TCU, Baylor, Texas, Rice, OU, OSU, LSU, Arkansas all have nice facilities or are just about completed. What major schools am I missing around here?

There has been plans for indoors for a long time at A&M so that means little to nothing!

About the indoor courts, all someone has to do is pony up a cool $1MM and we are off to the races. The land just on the other side of the stadium courts fence is slotted for that. All we need is money. I know some people who have contributed but we are a LONG way off from the million needed. And the TCU indoor courts offer NOTHING for the spectator. If you want to see some indoor courts go to Ann Arbor.

Where are Texas and Baylors indoor courts?

Baylor indoors are across the street from the Ferrel center. Texas is out towards Lakeway I believe.