ITA All-American tournaments

[ClarkC]

Pre-qualifying rounds are Saturday and Sunday in Tulsa, and the men's singles draw was posted today.

The women also start tomorrow in Riverside, California, and their pre-qualifyingsingles draw and doubles draw were posted today.

[JW10S]

The women are not in Riverside, the tournament is hosted by the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, CA and the main draws are played there. The pre-qualies are being played at UCLA.

[ClarkC]

Originally Posted by JW10S

The women are not in Riverside, the tournament is hosted by the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, CA and the main draws are played there. The pre-qualies are being played at UCLA.

Right .. glanced past the word Riviera without paying close attention and wrote Riverside.

[Clemson_tennis]

some interesting pre-qualie matchups:

Ben Chen vs Adam Lee
Ryan Shane vs Brett Clark
Lawrence Formentera vs Ayrton Wibowo

[floridatennisdude]

Is anyone out there watching the Tulsa matches. Curious of any surprises.

[jaggy]

Tulsa has quite a large draw lol

[Vicious Vik]

Originally Posted by jaggy

Tulsa has quite a large draw lol

Anybody can be in it. It's too large

[floridatennisdude]

Originally Posted by Vicious Vik

Anybody can be in it. It's too large

Holy cow, really? Schools aren't limited to a # of players?

[jaggy]

Eric Sock at Nebraska caught my eye, is he a brother of Jack?

[floridatennisdude]

Originally Posted by jaggy

Eric Sock at Nebraska caught my eye, is he a brother of Jack?

Yes, older brother. That was the reason there was speculation that Jack might spend some time in Lincoln. They are supposed to be very close.

[Clemson_tennis]

The qualie draw should be coming out soon

[Nostradamus]

I am picking that guy from UCLA to win this. brad gilbert said he hits 138 mph serves

[Clemson_tennis]

Qualifying draw


Redlicki vs Richmond will be a good one. There are a lot of good matches in this draw. Should be fun

[floridatennisdude]

Has anyone ever gon thru per-quallies, to quallies, and then won this while thing before?

That's a friggin mountain to climb.

[Clemson_tennis]

wow only 8 qualifiers out of 128. That makes it very hard to qualify. I'll take a shot at who I think will qualify from each section.

section 1:
Lots of good players here. Axel Alvarez is the sleeper. There could be a bigtime 2nd round showdown between Shane and Pasha. Quiroz also lurking down there. In the end I think Shane is too strong beating Alvarez to qualify.Justin Shane

section 2:
Wide open section, with the big seed being Chris Simpson. Upstart Hokie Bjerrehus is the sleeper here. But my pick to get threw to the main draw is Franciso Dias

section 3:
Another wide open section. No really strong players here, Kallberg is over seeded and will not qualify in fact he will lose first round to Hopkins. Hard to pick a winner out of here but I am going with new blood and picking Leonard Stakhovsky.

section 4:
Maybe younger Shane can keep rolling through. He has some obstacles and ultimately won;t do it. Anis Ghorbel

section 5:
I don't know, another relatively open section(all of these sections are cake compared to section 1). Matt Kandath

section 6:
This is another tougher section, one of the tougher ones. Have some good players in here. Lipman is probably still too much out of form to do much damage. Newcomer from Miss State in here in Dumont. But at the end of the day I think the vastly improved Jason Tahir will qualify.

section 7:
Interesting section. Includes two top tier ACC Freshman, Redlicki and Richmond. Wagland also in here. I will pick a surprise and select Romain Bogaerts to keep in going and qualify from the pre-qualies.

section 8:
I;m not sure if Petrone can capitalize on the good draw. Sebastian Stiefelmeyer

[ClarkC]

First-round men's losers in pre-Q got a bonus match at the end of play yesterday.

[TopDawg]

Here is the link for the Live Scoreboard. 1st set of 12 matches are on court. There may be Live Video too but I can't see that at work.

[TopDawg]

A few upsets already: Julian Lenz (Baylor) beats #1 Justin Shane (UVA) in 3 sets 2-6 6-3 6-2, Marko Krickovic (Baylor) beats #8 Daniil Proskura (Alabama) 7-5 6-1, Nikita Fomin (GW) beats #10 Aaron Pfister (Mich St) 7-5 6-1, Jens Vorefeld (Denver) rolls over #20 Matt Kandath (Stanford) 6-0 6-1.

Raphael Hemmeler (Duke) came back from a 4-6 3-5 deficit to knock off Jeff Offerdahl (Vandy) 4-6 7-6 6-1.

[therecanbeonlyone]

[quote=Clemson_tennis;6928633]wow only 8 qualifiers out of 128. That makes it very hard to qualify. I'll take a shot at who I think will qualify from each section.

The way I read it, there are 16 qualifiers. All players winning 3 rounds get in to the final tourney.

[TopDawg]

Few more upsets (based on seeds): Robin Goodman (Drake) beats #2 Alex Petrone (Michigan) 6-2 6-2, Ben Wagland (Georgia) beats #22 Isade Juneau (Indiana) 6-4 7-5, David Holiner (Texas) rolls #31 Matheus Pereira (Wichita State) 6-2 6-0, Axel Alvarez (Oklahoma) beats #9 Andrew Adams (S. Carolina) 7-6 3-6 6-2.