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Men’s ITA Regional Championships – Friday Update

by | Oct 22, 2016 | Blog

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The top three seeds are still alive in each men’s regional except for the Mountain which lost it’s top seed on Thursday and it’s second seed today. 

Men’s Regionals

 
 
Southwest (Pepperdine) – Singles/Doubles Draws – 14 of the top 16 seeds advanced on Day 1 and 12 of the remaining 14 advanced to the Round of 16 on Day 2.  San Diego’s Joel Gamerov (UTR 12.47) defeated the No. 11 seed USC’s Rob Bellamy (13.76) 6-2, 6-2 and UCSB’s Morgan Mays (13.33) rolled over the No. 12 seed San Diego’s Guus Koevemans (13.73) 6-2, 6-2. The Round of 16 matches begin at 10:45 a.m pacific with the quarterfinals scheduled for roughly 2 p.m. pacific. 
 
Round of 16 (Saturday 10:45 a.m. PT)

[1] Martin Redlicki (UCLA) vs. [13] Corey Pang (Cal Poly)
[5] Filip Vittek (San Diego) vs. Joel Gamerov (San Diego)
[4] Thibault Forget (USC) vs. [10] Austin Rapp (UCLA)
[8] Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (UCSB) vs. [14] Pedro Iamachkine (Pepperdine)
[6] Guilherme Hadlich (Pepperdine) vs. [9] Joey Di Giulio (UCLA)
[3] Logan Smith (USC) vs. [16] Henry Ji (USC)
Daniel Gealer (UCLA) vs. Sander Gjoels-Andersen (San Diego State)
[2] Gage Brymer (UCLA) vs. Morgan Mays (UC Santa Barbara)
Top 8 Seeds
1. Martin Redlicki (UCLA)
2. Gage Brymer (UCLA)
3. Logan Smith (USC)
4. Thibault Forget (USC)
5. Filip Vittek (USD)
6. Guilherme Hadlich (Pepp)
7. Benjamin Donovan (CP)
8. Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (UCSB)
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Mountain (Las Vegas) – Singles/Doubles Draws – the higher seed won three of four quarterfinal matches on Friday with the lone upset coming when Utah’s Santiago Sierra (12.91) upset his teammate the No. 2 seed David Micevski (13.49) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. 

 
Quarterfinals
[9] Kai Wehnelt (Utah State) def. [17] Tim Handel (Northern Arizona) 6-3, 7-6
[4] Alex Cozbinov (UNLV) vs. [17] Ricky Hernandez Tong (New Mexico) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
[3] Jacob Amilon (UNLV) def. [17] Christofer Goncalvas (New Mexico State) 6-3, 7-5
[17] Santiago Sierra (Utah) def. [2] David Micevski (Utah) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
 
Semifinals (Saturday 11 a.m. PT)
[4] Alex Cozbinov (UNLV) vs. [9] Kai Wehnelt (Utah State)
[3] Jacob Amilon (UNLV) vs. [17] Santiago Sierra (Utah)
Top 8 Seeds
1. Diogo Rocha (Denver)
2. David Micevski (Utah)
3. Jacob Amilon (UNLV)
4. Alex Cozbinov (UNLV)
5. Bart Van Leijsen (New Mexico)
6. Jaime Barajas (Utah State)
7. Hayden Sabatka (New Mexico)
8. Yannik James (Denver)
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Texas (TCU) – Singles/Doubles Draws – Most of the top 32 seeds had easy wins on Friday however there were a few surprises. Incarnate Word’s Francisco Bendana (UTR12.16) stunned the No. 9 seed Texas Tech’s Bjorn Thomson (13.70) 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; Lamar’s Sebastian Santibanez (12.53) defeated the No. 19 seed Texas Tech’s Ronit Bisht (13.63) 7-5, 6-0; Lamar’s Nikita Lis (13.14) crushed the No. 22 seed Baylor’s Constantin Frantzen (13.20) 6-1, 6-0; and Texas A&M’s James Martell (12.46) beat the No. 25 seed Texas’s Colin Markes (13.42) 6-2, 6-7, 6-3
 
Notes – Texas A&M’s AJ Catanzariti, who was the No. 12 seed, had to withdraw since he was playing his quarterfinal match at the Pro Futures event in Harlingen, Texas (lost to former Florida State #1 Ben Lock 7-6, 6-2). The No. 8 seed Texas A&M’s Jordi Arconada and the No. 16 seed SMU’s Ronald Slobodchikov both pulled out for personal reasons. Arconada played in Harlingen earlier in the week and qualified before falling in the first round while Slobodchikov played in qualies of the Las Vegas Challenger falling in the opening round. 
Top 8 Seeds
1. Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M)
2. Jolan Cailleau (Texas Tech)
3. Guillermo Nunez (TCU)
4. Yuya Ito (Texas)
5. Harrison Scott (Texas)
6. Jerry Lopez (TCU)
7. Alex Sendegeya (Texas Tech)
8. Jordi Arconada (Texas A&M)
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Central (Oklahoma State) – Singles Top & Bottom/Doubles – Streaming Video – there were no huge surprises on Friday however Oklahoma State’s Julian Cash had to come back from a set down to defeat Iowa’s Robin Haden in three sets. I’ve not seen actual updated draws but here are all of Friday’s results and below are Saturday’s Round of 16 matches – several good ones. 

 
Round of 16 (Saturday)
[1] Michael Redlicki (ARK) vs. Piotr Baranski (SIU)
Jurence Mendoza (OSU) vs. Airam Castellano (UMKC)
Lucas Gerch (OSU) vs. Matic Spec (MINN)
[4] Alex Ghilea (OU) vs. Tristan Meraut (OSU) 
[3] Jose Salazar (ARK) vs. Calum MacGeoch (DRAKE)
Arjun Kadhe (OSU) vs. Florin Bragusi (OU)
Spencer Papa (OU) vs. Lukas Finzelberg (OSU)
[2] Julian Cash (OSU) vs. Josh Silverstein (IOWA)
Top 4 Seeds – no actual seeds listed in draw but based on positioning I believe these are the top 4.
1. Mike Redlicki (Arkansas)
2. Julian Cash (Oklahoma State)
3. Jose Salazar (Arkansas)
4. Alex Ghilea (Oklahoma)
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Midwest (Ohio State) – Singles/Doubles – Streaming $ via FloTennis – 7 of the top 8 seeds won their opening round matches on Friday with the No. 5 seed Michigan’s Jathan Malik (13.76) getting upset by Northwestern’s Michael Lorenzi (12.59) 7-6, 7-6. Below are the other seeded upsets while the rest of the field will play two rounds of singles on Saturday. 

 
Other Seeded Upsets:
Hunter Tubert (Ohio State) def. [11] Aleks Kovacevic 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
Luke Smrek (Marquette) def. [12] Eddy Covalschi (Notre Dame) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Maik Steiner (W. Michigan) def. [15] Jason Seidman (Northwestern) 7-5, 2-6, 6-3
Riley Reist (Ohio State) def. [20] Grayson Broadus (Notre Dame) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
Dave Bacalla (Valparaiso) def. [22] Brett Forman (Michigan State) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
Matt Gamble (Notre Dame) def. [23] Nico Mostardi (Cleveland State) 6-3, 6-2
Top 8 Seeds

1. Konrad Zeiba (Northwestern)
2. Strong Kirchheimer (Northwestern)
3. Herkko Pollanen (Ohio State)
4. Josh Hagar (Notre Dame)
5. Jathan Malik (Michigan)
6. Martin Joyce (Ohio State)
7. Jeffrey Schorsch (Valparaiso)
8. Julian Childers (Illinois)

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Northeast (Penn) – Singles/Doubles – each of the top 32 seeds had first round byes on Friday with Saturday bringing two rounds of singles. Here is the schedule for Saturday. 

Top 8 Seeds

1. Shawn Hadavi (Columbia)
2. David Volfson (Cornell)
3-4. Kyle Mautner (Penn)
3-4. Victor Pham (Columbia)
5-8. Lez Kazakov (Cornell)
5-8. Jackie Tang (Columbia)
5-8. Alex Keyser (Columbia)
5-8. Tyler Lu (Yale)

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Ohio Valley (Tennessee) – Singles/Doubles Draws – Tennessee’s Luca Wiedenmann (12.40) and Middle Tennessee State’s Luis Morillo (12.26) were the only unseeded players to advance to the Round of 16 after Wiedenmann knocked off the No. 4 seed Memphis’s Andrew Watson (13.98) while Morillo beat the No. 26 seed East Tennessee State’s Miguel Este (13.20). The Round of 16 begins at 9 a.m. central on Saturday with the quarterfinals set to follow at 12:30 p.m. 
 
Friday results
[1] Daniel Valent (Vanderbilt) def. Chris Patzanovsky (Memphis) 6-1, 6-1
[2] Luis Valero (Tennessee) def. David Beasley (IUPUI) 6-2, 7-5
[3] David Biosca (ETSU) def. [19] Billy Rowe (Vanderbilt) 6-3, 6-1
Luca Wiedenmann (Tennessee) def. [4] Andrew Watson (Memphis) 6-3, 7-5
[5] Ryan Peniston (Memphis) def. Christopher Kougoucheff (Louisville) 6-4,6-1
[30] Jan Pallares (Memphis) def. [7] Benjamin Ugarte (Purdue) 6-2, 6-2
[8] Kai Lemke (Memphis) def. [32] Scott Jones (Tennessee) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
[9] Timo Stodder (Tennessee) def. Cedric Dujacquier (Belmont) 4-6, 6-0, 6-0
[22] Enzo Wallart (Kentucky) def. [10] Edu Mena (Tennessee Tech) 6-2, 6-3
[25] Parker Wynn (Lousiville) def. [11] Robert Herrera (ETSU) 7-6 (7-4), 6-1
[17] Baker Newman (Vanderbit) def. [12] Ricardo Medinilla (Purdue) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
[13] Trey Yates (Kentucky) def. [21] Nicolas Rouanet (Lousiville) 6-0,6-1
[15] Nils Ellefsen (Kentucky) def. [18] Gonzalo Morell (MTSU) 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4)
[20] Raheel Manji (Indiana) def. [16] Srdjan Jakoviljevic (Tennessee) 7-5, 6-3
Luis Morillo (MTSU) def. [26] Miguel Este (ETSU) 6-2,6-4
[28] Beck Pennington (Kentucky) def. Tom Moonen (MTSU) 6-3, 6-4
 
Round of 16 (Saturday 9 a.m. CT)
[1] Daniel Valent (Vanderbilt) vs. [15] Nils Ellefsen (Kentucky)
[8] Kai Lemke (Memphis) vs. [17] Baker Newman (Vanderbit)
[13] Trey Yates (Kentucky) vs. Luca Wiedenmann (Tennessee)
[9] Timo Stodder (Tennessee) vs. Luis Morillo (Middle Tennessee State)
[5] Ryan Peniston (Memphis) vs. [22] Enzo Wallert (Kentucky)
[3] David Biosca (East Tennessee State) vs. [20] Raheel Manji (Indiana)
[25] Parker Wynn (Lousiville) vs. [30] Jan Pallares (Memphis)
[2] Luis Valero (Tennessee) vs. [28] Beck Pennington (Kentucky)
 
Top 8 Seeds
1. Daniel Valent (Vanderbilt)
2. Luis Valero (Tennessee)
3. David Biosca (East Tennessee State)
4. Andrew Watson (Memphis)
5. Ryan Peniston (Memphis)
6. Cameron Klinger (Vanderbilt)
7. Benjamin Ugarte (Purdue)
8. Kai Lemke (Memphis)
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Southeast (Florida State) – Singles/Doubles – 7 of the top 8 seeds won on Friday with the No. 7 seed North Florida’s Jack Findel-Hawkins (13.74) getting upset by Georgia State’s Felipe Jaworski (12.77) 6-4, 7-6(2). 
 
Other Seeded Upsets:
Ezequiel Cerrini (Florida Gulf Coast) def. [12] Lucas Poullain (Florida State)
Jan Zielinski (Georgia) def. [13] Johannes Inglidsen (Florida) 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-3
Mariano Porter (Central Florida) def. [16] Sasha Gozun (South Florida) 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(6)
Top 8 Seeds
1. Wayne Montgomery (Georgia)
2. Elliott Orkin (Florida)
3. Piotr Lomacki (Miami)
4. Christian Langmo (Miami)
5. Carlos Benito (GA Tech)
6. Chase Perez-Blanco (Florida)
7. Jack Findel-Hawkins (North Florida)
8. Walker Duncan (Georgia)