Pre-Q’s Wrap Up and Qualies Get Started

16 Pre-Qualifers
David Fox (Denver 12.66)

Yannick Zuern (North Florida 13.04)
Alfredo Perez (Florida 13.63)
Jose Salazar (Arkansas 13.77)
Maksim Kan (Wake Forest 13.18)
[9-16] John Mee (Texas 13.48)
[17-32] Sam Matheson (Liberty 12.54)
Leopold Gomez Inslinger (UW-Green Bay 12.77)
[17-32] Jordi Arconada (Texas A&M 13.59)
Cristobal Rivera (Loyola Marymount 12.92)
Howard Scott (UW-Green Bay 12.57)
Jerry Lopez (TCU 13.78)
[9-16] Ricky Medinilla (Purdue 12.67)
[5] Michael Riechmann (Texas 12.77)
Keivon Tabrizi (Wake Forest 12.85)
Jakob Amilon (UNLV 13.13)

3 Lucky Losers:
[9-16] Dave Bacalla (Valparaiso 12.21)
Matt Mendez (Ohio State 12.74)
Robin Haden (Iowa 13.00)

The 16 pre-qualifers went a combined 7-9 in the 1st round of the qualifying draw as Perez, Salazar, Mee, Matheson, Rivera, Lopez, and Amilon picked up wins. Matheson (12.54) had a big upset over Arkansas’s Michael Redlicki (14.61) with Redlicki’s UTR 2.07 higher than Matheson’s. Matheson has played well this year also picking up wins over Georgia’s Emil Reinberg and Georgia Gwinnett’s Matias Hatem at last months Southern Intercollegiates in Athens.

Some other tidbits from the 1st round of the qualie draw:

ITA Top 10 Newcomers/Freshmen went 3-5
1. Mazen Osama (Alabama) lost to Florida’s Elliott Orkin 6-3, 6-7(3), 7-6(5)
2. David Volfson (Cornell) not playing
3. Sameer Kumar (Stanford) lost to San Diego State’s Hendrik Jebens 6-4, 7-6(3)
4. Enzo Sommer (Washington) lost to Texas’s George Goldhoff 6-4, 6-4
5. Filip Kraljevic (Ole Miss) def. Indiana’s Daniel Bednarczyk 7-6(4), 6-4
6. Tommy Mylnikov (Texas Tech) lost to Stanford’s David Hsu 6-1, 6-1
7. Michael Genender (Stanford) def. Ohio State’s Herkko Pollanen 7-5, 5-7, 6-4
8. Liam Caruana (Texas) lost to Kentucky’s William Bushamuka 6-2, 6-2
9. Alexandre Favrot (Clemson) not playing
10. Hugo Di Feo (Ohio State) def. North Florida’s Jack Findel-Hawkins 7-6(3), 6-2

Other notable freshmen results:
Georgia’s Walker Duncan def. Texas’s Michael Riechmann 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(6)
Florida’s Alfredo Perez def. Dartmouth’s Ciro Riccardi 6-1, 7-5
Ohio State’s Martin Joyce lost to Texas Tech’s Alexander Sendegeya 7-6(3), 6-4
Tulsa’s Dominic Bechard lost to UMBC’s Jaan Kononov 2-6, 6-4, 6-4

Player with the higher UTR went 44-20
2-set matches 43
3-sets matches 21
8 guys lost the 1st set but came back to win the match – Kadhe, Douglas, Styslinger, Pedraza, Lopez, Kononov, Wilczynski, and Schorsch.
19 of 149 (12.75%) sets went to a tiebreak
Top 8 seeds went 4-4: #1 Martin Redlicki (UCLA), #2 Andrew Watson (Memphis), #5 Max De Vroome (USC), & #8 Filip Bergevi (CAL) won; #3 Jack Findel-Hawkins (North Florida), #4 Maxx Lipman (Florida), #6 Mitch Stewart (Washington), & #7 Ralf Steinbach (Ohio State) lost.

Biggest surprises:
Sam Matheson (Liberty) def. Michael Redlicki (Arkansas) 6-4, 0-6, 6-3
Jeffrey Schorsch (Valparaiso) def. Felipe Rios (Baylor) 1-6, 6-3, 6-1
Luca Corinteli (Virginia) def. Jack Murray (UNC) 6-3, 6-4 – mainly listed this one because Corinteli hasn’t played much singles over the last 2 years while Murray has been solid.

Most lopsided scores:
Konrad Zieba (Northwestern) def. Robin Haden (Iowa) 6-0, 6-1
Gordon Watson (Florida) def. Becker O’Shaughnessey (Alabama) 6-1, 6-2
Robert Kelly (UNC) def. Ricky Medinilla (Purdue) 6-2, 6-0
William Bushamuka (Kentucky) def. Liam Caruana (Texas) 6-2, 6-2
Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech) def. Carlos Bautista (Tulsa) 6-2, 6-2
Shane Monroe (BYU) def. Tam Trinh (LSU) 6-1, 6-2
Jose Salazar (Arkansas) def. Pablo Alvarez (Buffalo) 6-0, 6-1
David Hsu (Stanford) def. Tommy Mylnikov (Texas Tech) 6-1, 6-1
Dominic Cotrone (South Florida) def. Mitch Stewart (Washington) 6-2, 6-2

Full results from the pre-q’s and pre-q consolations and qualies and qualie consolations are in the windows below.  I also updated my google doc with results from today and there is a tab for the Round of 32 of the qualifying draw too.