Pac 12 teams Stanford and Washington traveled to Athens, Georgia for the ITA Kickoff and Stanford dominated in singles play and beat Washington 4-2.
Washington took the doubles point in convincing fashion, winning 6-3 on court one and 6-0 on court three. This image is from the action at number one doubles where Emmett Egger and Jeff Hawke of Washington defeated John Morrissey and Maciek Romanowicz of Stanford 6-3.
In singles, Stanford number one John Morrissey, hitting the backhand here, took out Max Manthou, 6-3, 6-5 (7-4). This win gave Stanford a 3-1 lead in the match.
Jeff Hawke of UW gave the Huskies their only singles win when he defeated Trey Strobel 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 at number four singles.
Robert Stineman of Stanford led Daffra Sanon, hitting a backhand here, 6-3, 5-4, before the match was abanadoned when Anthony Tsodikov of Stanford beat Viktor Farkas 6-3, 1-6, 6-2.
The match was played using an experimental rules format. The big rules changes for this experiment are using No-Ad scoring and using a tie break when the game score in a set is tied at 5-5. This was the case for both singles and doubles. I did not think it was a good idea and a number of people I talked with were in agreement. I don't know how you take deuce games out of the equation. It is an integral part of learning to grind through a match. The experimental rules will be used for the next month. Wow. Let's hope this bad idea is history soon. I can say that these rules did not impact the outcome of this match. Once the singles started, Stanford was clearly the stronger team this day.
Stanford is now 2-0 on the season, while Washington fell to 2-2.
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