Frogs Head to Tulsa for ITA All-American
10/1/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Oct. 1, 2010
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FORT WORTH—The TCU men's tennis team takes to the road this weekend for the annual D'Novo ITA All-American Tennis Championships, which begin Saturday at Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center. The event, which features prequalifying and qualifying prior to the main draws, runs Saturday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 10.
The All-American Championships mark the first Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) singles and doubles championship events of the collegiate season. A large field will attract many of the nation's top players to Tulsa. Singles competition will be split into three separate draws--prequalifying, qualifying and the main draw. The prequalifying draw leads into the qualifying draw, which leads into the main draw. Doubles will feature only one qualifying draw prior to the main bracket.
Competition begins Saturday with a field of more than 160 players in the prequalifying bracket. Sixteen athletes will advance to the 128-man qualifying draw, which runs Oct. 4-6, while the top 16 competitors in the qualifying section will then advance to compete in the 64-man main draw Oct. 7-10.
Doubles action follows the same format, although there is no prequalifying draw. The opening qualifying bracket (doubles begins Oct. 4) will feed eight of 64 competing doubles pairs into the 16-team main section.
Those singles and doubles entries participating in the qualifying and main draws who drop their first-round matches will be eligible for consolation play.
The following are TCU's accepted entries into the nine-day tournament:
QUALIFYING DOUBLES
Emanuel Brighiu/Christopher Price (top alternate for automatic berth in main doubles draw)
Soren Goritzka/Cameron Nash
PRE-QUALIFYING DOUBLES
Emanuel Brighiu
Santiago Centeno
Paul Chappell
Sören Goritzka
Slah Mbarek
Zach Nichols
Christopher Price
Recaps for each day of competition will be posted to GoFrogs.com. More information on the tournament, which includes draws, results and a link to live video, can be found at the link at the top of this page.
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