Shout out to Cornell Tennis, which defeated Arkansas in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament in what is probably Arkansas last match. Last week Arkansas announced they are dropping men's and women's tennis after this season. Another casualty of the big money enviroment. After this year Arkansas will have just seven men's varsity sports, which is an embarrassment for a large state university in the SEC.
Last weekend Cornell upset Columbia 4-3 to win a share of the Ivy Title. In both matches, our No. 1 player, Rodrigo Fernandes, beat top 20 NCAA players to clinch the match. Against Columbia, Fernandes upset the 2-time defending NCAA singles champ, Michael Zheng, who has played in several professional tournaments and is ranked in the top 155 in the world. Quite a week for Fernandes. We now move on to likely play host TCU, which is ranked #2 nationally.