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Men’s ITA Regional Championships – Thursday Update

by | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog

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3 of the 8 Men’s ITA Regions started main draw singles action on Thursday while the Mountain Region got a head start on everyone else with a Wednesday start and will play its quarterfinal round on Friday. I made note of the seeded losers under each regional and updated draw links to include Thursday’s results. 

 
Southwest (Pepperdine) – Singles/Doubles Draws – 14 of the top 16 seeds advanced to the Round of 32 with the two seeded upsets coming in the same 1/8 of the draw. UC Santa Barbara senior Teague Hamilton knocked off the 15th seed Pepperdine’s Stefan Menichella 4-6, 7-6(2), 7-5 while San Diego State sophomore Sander Gjoels-Andersen upset the 7th seed Cal Poly’s Ben Donovan 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. 
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 – there have been several upsets in Las Vegas with the biggest coming when the top seed Denver’s Diogo Rocha retired early in the first set of his second round match against Nevada’s Jonathan Aremon. Other seeded upsets – Northern Arizona’s Tim Handel routed the No. 6 seed Utah State’s Jaime Barajas 6-2, 6-0 in the Round of 32; New Mexico’s Ricky Hernandez Tong defeated the No. 7 seed New Mexico’s Hayden Sabatka 6-3, 6-3 in the Round of 16; New Mexico State’s Christofer Goncalvas ousted the No. 8 seed Denver’s Yannik James 6-4, 6-4 in the Round of 32; Montana’s Victor Casadevall beat the No. 5 seed New Mexico’s Bart Van Leijsen 7-6, 2-6, 6-1 in the second round. 

 
Quarterfinals (Friday 12:30 pm. PT)
[9] Kai Wehnelt (Utah State) vs. [17] Tim Handel (Northern Arizona)
[4] Alex Cozbinov (UNLV) vs. [17] Ricky Hernandez Tong (New Mexico)
[3] Jacob Amilon (UNLV) vs. [17] Christofer Goncalvas (New Mexico State)
[2] David Micevski (Utah) 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 – play begins on Friday
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 – all the seeds got opening rounds byes so the action will start heating up on Friday.

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 – qualifying finishes up on Friday morning with the main draw beginning at 12:15 p.m. ET.  All the qualifying results are available here. 

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 – the qualifying draw wrapped up on Thursday with the main draw beginning Friday at 11 a.m. ET.

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 – the first two rounds of singles were played on Thursday with 14 of the top 16 seeds advancing to the Round of 32. Lipscomb’s Rob Mitchell upset the No. 6 seed Vanderbilt’s Cameron Klinger 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 in the opening round and Middle Tennessee State’s Tom Moonen defeated the No. 14 seed Indiana’s Antonio Cembellin 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in the Round of 64. Memphis had a nice recap with all the results listed in order of seed so check it out for easy viewing. 
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 – the singles draw had to be reconfigured due to 6 players from Florida being put in the same half. Qualifying finished up on Friday and one round of singles will be played aftewards. 
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)