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Qualifying Is Complete – Main Draw Starts Tomorrow

by | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog

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After 5 days of qualifying the field is now set for the main draw at this year’s ITA Men’s All-American Championships.

Florida freshman Alfredo Perez pulled off the somewhat rare feat of going 7-0 over the last 5 days by coming from the pre-qualifying draw to the qualifying draw and now to the main draw.  Ohio State’s Matt Mendez, who got into the qualifying draw as a lucky loser, almost joined Perez in the main draw but after rallying from 5-2 down in the 3rd to tie it at 5-5 he would drop the final 2 games and lose 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 to North Carolina’s Robert Kelly.
Perez is joined by 2 other freshman in the main draw with Georgia’s Walker Duncan and Ohio State’s Hugo Di Feo also qualifying.
The 16 qualifers are:
Jordan Angus (San Diego)
Constantin Schmitz (Tulane)
Hendrik Jebens (San Diego State)
Walker Duncan (Georgia)
William Bushamuka (Kentucky)
Marko Krickovic (Auburn)
Chase Perez-Blanco (Florida)
Alfredo Perez (Florida)
Edoardo Tessaro (Virginia Tech)
Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech)
Max De Vroome (USC)
Konrad Zieba (Northwestern)
Hugo Di Feo (Ohio State)
Robert Kelly (North Carolina)
Christian Seraphim (Wake Forest)
Trevor Johnson (TCU)

Full results from today’s qualifying matches are in the google doc below and below that is a look at the main draw with UTRs for each player. 

Main Draw Tidbits:

43 guys gained entry based off ranking – from looking at the preseason rankings the cutoff was 55 which means 12 guys took a pass (mentioned a few days back)
16 came through qualies (list above)
Denver’s Henry Craig and Diogo Rocha and Yale’s Tyler Lu got in since they were 1 of the top 2 players in their respective ITA region. The top 2 in each region are guaranteed a spot regardless of ranking.
Tulsa’s Mitchell Pritchard got the Host’s Wild Card
Alabama’s Korey Lovett got the ITA’s WC for winning the ITA Summer Championship

Average Universal Tennis Rating (UTR): 13.84
High UTR: 14.62 – Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA)
Low UTR: 12.59 – Mitchell Pritchard (Tulsa)

Schools with multiple players:
4 – Virginia Tech
3 – Texas A&M, San Diego, Ohio State, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida
2 – Wake Forest, USC, Tulsa, Tulane, South Florida, Northwestern, Kentucky, Denver, Cal

Regional Representatives:
Atlantic: Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia) & Andreas Bjerrehus (Virginia Tech)
Carolina: Nicolas Alvarez (Duke) & Romain Bogaerts (Wake Forest)
Central: Or Ram-Harel (Tulsa) & Tin Ostojic (Wichita State)
Midwest: Quentin Monaghan (Notre Dame) & Chris Diaz (Ohio State)
Mountain: Henry Craig (Denver) & Diogo Rocha (Denver)
Northeast: Dovydas Sakinis (Dartmouth) & Tyler Lu (Yale)
Northwest: Tom Fawcett (Stanford) & Andre Goransson (Cal)
Ohio Valley: Beck Pennington (Kentucky) & Danny Valent (Vanderbilt)
Southeast: Austin Smith (Georgia) & Roberto Cid (South Florida)
Southern: Dominik Koepfer (Tulane) & Stefan Lindmark (Ole Miss)
Southwest: Uros Petronijevic (San Diego) & Naoki Takeda (Arizona)
Texas: Felipe Soares (Texas Tech) & Shane Vinsant (Texas A&M)

Live scoring and streaming video for all matches can be found at this link 
So after looking over the draw – who do you like to come through?