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NTI All-Tournament Team Announced, USC Holds Off Cal Poly 4-3 in Second PlayFair Challenge Dual

by | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog | 2 comments

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The ITA announced the Men’s National Team Indoors All-Tournament team on Thursday with Virginia filling four of the six singles spots and two of three doubles teams. Ohio State junior Mikael Torpegaard was named the tournament MVP after going 4-0 in singles at No. 1 with wins over Oklahoma’s Andrew Harris, Oklahoma State’s Julian Cash, Wake Forest’s Petros Chrysochos, and Virginia’s Collin Altamirano. No other player went 4-0 in singles although Virginia’s Collin Altamirano and JC Aragone pulled off the feet in doubles.

NTI All-Tournament Team
 
Singles
1. Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State) 4-0
2. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia) – 3-0
3. Harrison Scott (Texas) 3-0
4. J.C. Aragone (Virginia) 3-0
5. Alexander Ritschard (Virginia) 2-0
6. Henrik Wiersholm (Virginia) – 2-0
 
Doubles
1. Skander Mansouri/Christian Seraphim (Wake Forest) 2-0
2. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski/Alexander Ritschard (Virginia) 3-0
3. Collin Altamirano/J.C. Aragone (Virginia) 4-0
 
Official Criteria For Selection:
The ITA All-Tournament Team will consist only of players from teams that advance to the quarterfinals or further. Players will be selected based on their W-L record during the tournament and their team’s success during the event will also be factored in. In the event that a specific position does not have any players with enough completed matches, then selections may be based on players whose teams have won at least 2 matches in the “back draw.” The most outstanding player will also be selected from the All-Tournament Team.

 

 

The second PlayFair Challenge dual-match took place on Thursday afternoon between USC and Cal Poly. Cal Poly took the doubles point over USC but the Trojans bounced back in singles and picked up straight set wins from Brandon Holt, Jack Jaede, Riley Smith, and Rob Bellamy while Cal Poly picked up straight set wins from Corey Pang and Garrett Auproux. 

There 21 challenges made in the match of which 6 took place in doubles and 15 in singles. 6 of the challenges were on serves while 15 were on groundstrokes. A total of 5 challenges (2 on serves) results in a reversal of the original call while the other 16 were either bad challenges or there the evidence was inconclusive. 

 

#12 USC 4, #33 Cal Poly 3
February 23, 2017 | Marks Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Doubles results
(1) #29 Holt/ R. Smith (USC) def. #35 Donovan/Pang (CP) – 6-3
(2) Enander/Tan (CP) def. #60 Crystal/Verboven (USC) – 6-4
(3) Ortlip/Auproux (CP) def. Bellamy/Jaede (USC) – 6-3
Cal Poly wins doubles point.
Order of finish: 3, 1, 2
Singles results
(1) #27 Brandon Holt (USC) def. #57 Ben Donovan (CP) – 6-3, 6-4
(2) Corey Pang (CP) def. #42 Logan Smith (USC) – 7-5, 6-4
(3) Garrett Auproux (CP) def. Thibault Forget (USC) – 7-6, 6-3
(4) Jack Jaede (USC) def. Josh Ortlip (CP) – 6-4, 7-6 (2)*
(5) Riley Smith (USC) def. Antoine Noel (CP) – 6-2, 6-3
(6) Rob Bellamy (USC) def. Axel Damiens (CP) – 6-1, 7-5
Order of finish: 5, 6, 3, 1, 4*, 2 

2 Comments

  1. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    Why are some teams in bold on your live scoring page?

  2. 3
    3 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    When I first keyed these in a few weeks back all those teams were ranked but I forgot to go back and update them once the top 50 came out this week.