Six of the top eight seeds began the day in Tulsa but by mid-afternoon Wake Forest sophomore Petros Chrysochos would be the only one left with a number beside his name.
Chrysochos and Arkansas senior Jose Salazar slugged it out for 2 hours and 40 minutes in their Round of 16 match. Chrysochos was broke serving for the first set at 5-4 and 6-5 before rolling 7-1 in the tiebreak. Chrysochos led 3-1 in the second set but Salazar won four straight games to go ahead 5-3 and would eventually serve the second set out to take it 6-4. Chrysochos jumped out to a single break 4-1 lead in the third set but Salazar got it back on serve and forced a third set tiebreak. Chrysochos would take the third set tiebreak 7-4 to move on to the quarterfinals against the top seed Ohio State’s Mikael Torpegaard.
Torpegaard only needed 1 hour and 20 minutes to dispatch Ole Miss junior Gustav Hansson 6-4, 6-3 but a few hours later he’d find himself on his heels against Chrysochos in the quarters. Chrysochos jumped out to break leads in both sets and was never threatened in a 6-2, 6-4 win.
UPSET! 6-seed Chrysochos (@WakeMTennis) takes down top-ranked Torpegaard (Ohio St.) in straight sets to advance to #TulsaITA semis; 6-2, 6-4 pic.twitter.com/hKvBSvxdG7— ITA Tennis (@ITA_Tennis) October 8, 2016
Chrysochos will now meet Florida sophomore Alfredo Perez after Perez won a pair of three-setters on Saturday. Perez opened up the day against Texas freshman Yuya Ito in a match that had one close set then a pair of lopsided ones. Perez led 4-1 in the first set but Ito came back to force a tiebreak. Ito went up an early mini-break and had a pair of set points at *6-4 but Perez won the final four points to take the tiebreak 8-6. Ito rebounded in the second set taking it 6-1 but Perez righted the ship in the third set and rolled 6-0 in less than 20 minutes.
Perez’s quarterfinal match against Georgia Tech junior Christopher Eubanks followed a similar path though it had a much closer third set. Perez broke Eubanks to start the match and made the break lead hold up in route to a 6-4 opening set. Eubanks rolled 6-1 in the second but Perez got the key break in the third when he broke Eubanks’s 5-5 service game and then served it out for a 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 win.
Texas freshman Christian Sigsgaard continued his remarkable run in Tulsa by winning his 10th and 11th matches in the last eight days. Sigsgaard knocked off Baylor senior Max Tchoutakian 6-3, 6-2 in his morning Round of 16 match and then in the early afternoon he faced Cal senior Florian Lakat.
Just a few hours earlier Lakat had knocked off the defending champion and No. 2 seed Thai-Son Kwiatkowski in a surprising 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 scoreline but Lakat wouldn’t be able to replicate the result against Sigsgaard. The Texas freshman jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first set and held on the no-ad point to take the opening set 6-3. Lakat led 5-4 in the second set but Sigsgaard held, broke, and held again to close out a 6-3, 7-5 win.
Sigsgaard will now meet Ohio State sophomore Hugo Di Feo after the Buckeye won a pair of tough three-setters against the No. 4 and No. 5 seeds.
Di Feo opened up the day by taking an early 4-2 lead against Wake Forest junior Skander Mansouri but the Demon Deacon would take four straight games to claim the opening set 6-4. Di Feo went up an early break in the second set but Mansouri broke back and took a 5-4 lead. Di Feo managed to hold, break, and hold to take the second set 7-5 and then he made it six games in a row by opening up a double break 3-0 lead in the third. Mansouri erased both breaks and won four straight games to take a 4-3 lead but Di Feo hung in there and broke back to go up 6-5. Di Feo managed to serve it out to move on to a meeting with the No. 4 seed Tom Fawcett.
Fawcett himself had a tough Round of 16 match that ended with the Stanford junior fighting off a match point to defeat Arkansas senior Michael Redlicki 7-5 in the third. Fawcett looked like he was going to tear through Di Feo in straight sets after leading 7-5, 4-1* but Di Feo won the last five games of the second set to force a third. Fawcett quickly went up a 3-0* in the third but Di Feo won the last six games to stun Fawcett 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.
Since FloTennis is only streaming four courts it would have been logical to think that each of the quarterfinal matches would have ended up on a streaming court but that wasn’t the case on Saturday. There were more than enough courts to accommodate all the back draw matches, in fact there were several courts not in use, but for some reason two back draw matches ended up on courts 2 and 4 which meant that unless you were onsite you weren’t able to see the Di Feo/Fawcett and Chrysochos/Torpegaard matches. Of course the obvious remedy was to turn on Tulsa’s streaming feed on courts 5 through 12, and that was supposed to happen, but I was told there were technical issues that prevented it from happening.
Men’s Round of 16
[6] Petros Chrysochos (Wake F 14.59) def. Jose Salazar (Arkansas 14.12) 7-6(1), 4-6, 7-6(4)
[3] Christopher Eubanks (Ga Tech 14.27) def. [Q] Christian Seraphim (Wake F 14.06) 6-4, 6-3
Alfredo Perez (Florida 14.43) def. [Q] Yuya Ito (Texas 14.70) 7-6(6), 1-6, 6-0
Hugo Di Feo (Ohio State 13.95) def. [5] Skander Mansouri (Wake Forest 14.26) 4-6, 7-5, 7-5
[4] Tom Fawcett (Stanford 14.48) vs. [9-16] Michael Redlicki (Arkansas 14.36) 7-6(7), 3-6, 7-5
[PQ] Christian Sigsgaard (Texas 14.13) def. Max Tchoutakian (Baylor 13.87) 6-3, 6-2
[9-16] Florian Lakat (California 14.17) def. [2] Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia 15.09) 2-6, 6-2, 6-0
Quarterfinals
[6] Petros Chrysochos (Wake Forest 14.59) def. [1] Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio St 15.22) 6-2, 6-4
Alfredo Perez (Florida 14.43) def. [3] Christopher Eubanks (Ga Tech 14.27) 6-4, 1-6, 7-5
Hugo Di Feo (Ohio State 13.95) def. [4] Tom Fawcett (Stanford 14.48) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
[PQ] Christian Sigsgaard (Texas 14.13) def. [9-16] Florian Lakat (California 14.17) 6-3, 7-5
Semifinals (Sunday 12:30 p.m. CT)
[6] Petros Chrysochos (Wake Forest 14.59) vs. Alfredo Perez (Florida 14.43)
[PQ] Christian Sigsgaard (Texas 14.13) vs. Hugo Di Feo (Ohio State 13.95)
[Q] Findel-Hawkins/Muscheites (N Florida) def. Corinteli/Kwiatkowski (Virginia) 6-4, 1-6, 1-0(7)
[3] Mansouri/Seraphim (Wake Forest) def. [Q] Covalschi/Hagar (Notre Dame) 6-0, 6-1
Semifinals (Sunday 12:00 p.m. CT)
[Q] Madarasz/Medinilla (Purdue) vs. [Q] Findel-Hawkins/Muscheites (North Florida)
[2] Bergevi/Lakat (California) vs. [3] Mansouri/Seraphim (Wake Forest)
Men’s Host Site which includes all draws
FloTennis Stream $$ (Courts 1-4)
Live Scoring/Tulsa Stream (Courts 5-12)
Women’s Host Site
FloTennis Stream $$
Ohio State sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo and UCLA freshman Ena Shibahara will meet on Sunday afternoon in the women’s final after each won in straight sets on Saturday. Shibahara, who came through the pre-qualifying rounds, won her 10th match in the last 8 days with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Vanderbilt junior Astra Sharma. Di Lorenzo was able to pull off a mild upset when she defeated the top seed Hayley Carter 7-6(3), 6-2.
For a full recap including quotes check out the ITA’s recap.
When you make the singles final at #RivieraITA, you fist pump like you mean it. @OhioState_WTEN #3 Di Lorenzo d. @UNC_wtennis #1 Carter pic.twitter.com/eWWYE29rZo— ITA Tennis (@ITA_Tennis) October 8, 2016
Women’s Semifinals
[PQ] Ena Shibahara (UCLA 12.09) def. Astra Sharma (Vanderbilt) 11.60 6-3, 6-1
Championship (Sunday 11 a.m. PT)
[3] Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio St 12.50) vs. [PQ] Ena Shibahara (UCLA 12.09)
Championship (Sunday 12:30 p.m. PT)
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