Men's tennis team beats number 2 Duke!!

By: arnie3959 on March 8, 2015, 6:13 PM | 12 comments

One of the biggest if not the biggest win in school history! Congrats to these hokies!!!

http://www.hokiesports.com/mtennis/recaps/20150308aaa.html

The team is 10-1 on the year so far and have beat some very good teams so far!

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Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 11 years 4 months #

Is it wrong that I always picture Happy Gilmore when we beat an ACC blueblood in a non-revenue sport?

Way to go, Hokies!

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Jander75's picture Jander75 | 11 years 4 months # ^

probably in this case since tennis >>> golf

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Illinois Hokie's picture Illinois Hokie | 11 years 4 months # ^

Yeah but there aren't any great "regular Joe bitchslaps hoity toity blueblood douchebags at their own game" tennis movies.

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente

french60wasp's picture french60wasp
| 11 years 4 months #

My cousin was on the men's team in the mid/late 90's, so this is super cool. As someone whose first sports love was tennis (I loved to play tennis until my shoulder couldn't handle hitting spin serves anymore) this is a huge story!

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804VTHokie's picture 804VTHokie | 11 years 4 months # ^

I loved to play tennis until my shoulder couldn't handle hitting spin serves anymore

I think I pulled something playing Wii Tennis once...

french60wasp's picture french60wasp
| 11 years 4 months # ^

Either from wear and year coming from serving (tennis was a big part of my summer conditioning for football) or wear and tear from football/bench press, I started having bad shoulder pain. When I would hit a serve around 26 years old, I could hit 10 and be fine, and then the 11th was like a gun shot going off in my shoulder. I went to an orthopedist and was diagnosed with biciepital tendonitis. It never has gotten better even with a ton of rest (I don't do any kind of chest press or tennis stuff.)

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ashore13's picture ashore13
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| 11 years 4 months # ^

That sounds very similar to my shoulder injury. After lifting weights and hitting big serves and kick serves all summer my labrum gave out and tore. I got surgery, but it's still not right. Serves and even throwing a football aren't the same.

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french60wasp's picture french60wasp
| 11 years 4 months # ^

I have pain throwing as well, especially a baseball or softball.

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HokieEngineer121's picture HokieEngineer121 | 11 years 4 months # ^

Kick serves have killed my shoulder too. Thankfully we diagnosed it early enough and after a year of strengthening and time off everything should be okay now. At least I hope it will.

I'm sorry not everyone is so lucky. Does everyone else have this issue?

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aqua's picture aqua | 11 years 4 months #

Love beating UVA. Especially a UVA upset!

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fernleyhokie's picture fernleyhokie
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| 11 years 4 months #

awesome. Hokies moving on up in lots of sports. love it

Sola-WRECK'n the ACC's picture Sola-WRECK'n the ACC | 11 years 4 months #

I was surprised and very excited when I saw this post- that is an awesome win for the program. After clicking the link, it got even better... the match score was 6-1! After losing the doubles point, Tech swept singles... wow. For those of you who may not be terribly familiar with tennis, that's a big deal and something that I'm fairly certain Duke isn't used to having happen to them. Congrats to the men's tennis team.

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