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Saint Francis ITA All AmericansToday was the beginning of the main draw at the All-Americans in Tulsa but things didn’t exactly go as planned. Play was supposed to begin at 9am central but due to an issue with the draw the ITA had to redo it which meant that play was pushed back by 3 hours until 12pm central. The issue was that all 16 qualifiers were set to face a top 16 seed which isn’t the way it’s supposed to be done so after the draw was restructured we had 31 new match-ups with only the Nicolas Alvarez/Joao Monteiro pairing staying the same.
Once play begin there was 1 top 8 seed to get upset with #5 Romain Bogaerts of Wake Forest going down to Denver’s Diogo Rocha 6-3, 6-3. This was also a Universal Tennis Rating upset with Rocha having a 13.23 UTR and Bogaerts a 14.37 UTR.
There were 2 other Top 16 seeds to get defeated with Georgia’s Austin Smith and Texas Tech’s Felipe Soares getting knocked out by Texas A&M’s Shane Vinsant and USC’s Nick Crystal.
The ITA’s recap has a few quotes from some of the winners.
All-American 1st Round Results:
[1] Monaghan (ND) def. [WC] Lovett (AL) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
[Q] Krickovic (AU) def. [WC] Pritchard (TU) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1
[9-16] Fawcett (ST) def. Lomacki (UM) 6-4, 6-4
[Q] Duncan (UGA) def. [Q] Bushamuka (UK) 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(5)
[7] Schneider (UNC) def. Torpegaard (OSU) 6-4, 7-6(5)
[Q] Angus (USD) def. Shropshire (NU) 6-3, 7-6(3)
Vinsant (aTm) def. [9-16] Smith (UGA) 7-6(3), 6-1
Takeda (UA) def. Lott (DU) 6-3, 7-5
[3] Kwiatkowski (UVA) def. Vittek (USD) 6-4, 6-2
Rinderknech (aTm) def. Lindmark (OM) 6-2, 6-1
[9-16] Eubanks (GT) def. Valent (VU) 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4
Lakat (Cal) def. [Q] Johnson (TCU) 7-5, 6-7(4), 7-6(5)
[6] Cid (USF) def. Bjerrehus (VT) 6-2, 7-6(12)
[Q] Zieba (NU) def. Ostojic (WSU) 6-3, 6-4
[9-16] Sakinis (DC) def. [Q] Perez-Blanco (UF) 6-4, 6-1
Craig (DU) def. [Q] Schmitz (TU) 6-3, 6-3
Pennington (UK) def. Lu (Yale) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
Crystal (USC) def. [9-16] Soares (TT) 6-2, 7-6(3)
[Q] Di Feo (OSU) def. Hidalgo (UF) 6-2, 7-5
Rocha (DU) def. [5] Bogaerts (WF) 6-3, 6-3
Ghilea (OU) def. [Q] Kelly (UNC) 7-5, 7-5
[9-16] Lock (FSU) def. Micolani (UA) 6-3, 6-2
Spec (MN) def. [Q] Seraphim (WF) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
[4] Koepfer (TU) def. Clark (UNC) 6-4, 6-3
Diaz (OSU) def. [Q] Tessaro (VT) 2-6, 7-5, 3-0 ret.
[9-16] Ram-Harel (TU) def. Daigle (LSU) 6-1, 6-2
Petronijevic (USD) def. Catanzariti (aTm) 6-2, 6-4
[8] Montgomery (UGA) def. [Q] Jebens (USD) 6-4, 6-2
[Q] De Vroome (USC) def. [PQ] Perez (UF) 6-2, 6-0
[9-16] Goransson (Cal) def. Gozun (USF) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
Hiltzik (ILL) def. Contini (VT) 7-6(2), 3-6, 7-6(4)
[2] Alvarez (DU) def. [Q] Monteiro (VT) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
1st Round Notes:Top 16 seeds went 13-3
Qualifiers went 6-10
Freshmen went 2-1 (W – Duncan & Di Feo; L – Perez)
Players with the higher UTR went 23-9
Players with the higher preseason ranking went 23-9
2 matches finished 7-6 in the 3rd (Hiltzik/Contini & Duncan/Bushamuka)
Schools with multiple winners: Cal (Goransson/Lakat), Denver (Craig/Rocha), Georgia (Duncan/Montgomery), Ohio State (Di Feo/Diaz), San Diego (Petronijevic/Angus), Texas A&M (Vinsant/Rinderknech), USC (De Vroome/Crystal)
2nd Round Schedule:
[1] Quentin Monaghan (ND) vs. [Q] Marko Krickovic (AU)
[9-16] Tom Fawcett (ST) vs. [Q] Walker Duncan (UGA)
[7] Ronnie Schneider (UNC) vs. [Q] Jordan Angus (USD)
Shane Vinsant (aTm) vs. Naoki Takeda (UA)
[3] Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA) vs. Arthur Rinderknech (aTm)
[9-16] Christopher Eubanks (GT) vs. Florian Lakat (Cal)
[6] Roberto Cid (USF) vs. [Q] Konrad Zieba (NU)
[9-16] Dovydas Sakinis (DC) vs. Henry Craig (DU)
Nick Crystal (USC) vs. Beck Pennington (UK)
[Q] Hugo Di Feo (OSU) vs. Diogo Rocha (DU)
[9-16] Benjamin Lock (FSU) vs. Alex Ghilea (OU)
Matic Spec (MN) vs. [4] Dominik Koepfer (TU)
Chris Diaz (OSU) vs. [9-16] Or Ram-Harel (TU)
[8] Wayne Montgomery (UGA) vs. Uros Petronijevic (USD)
[9-16] Andre Goransson (Cal) vs. [Q] Max De Vroome (USC)
[2] Nicolas Alvarez (DU) vs. Aron Hiltzik (ILL)
Avg UTR: 14.00
High UTR: 14.62 (Kwiatkowski)
Low UTR: 13.23 (Rocha)
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