Duo to Start Singles Championship
5/24/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
FORT WORTH, Texas – Postseason action for members of the TCU men's tennis team will begin on Wednesday, May 25 as Cameron Norrie and Alex Rybakov are set to take part in the NCAA Division I Men's Singles Championship at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla.
The No. 5 seed and two-time singles All-American, Norrie will open the day by taking on No. 21 Mike Rediciki of Arkansas at 11:30 a.m. No. 24 Rybakov will wrap-up action for TCU with a match against No. 45 Hugo Di Feo at 12:30 p.m., to conclude action for the Horned Frogs in the Round of 64.
After making a run to the Elite 8 last season in the singles championship, Norrie enters this year's bracket as a seeded player and automatic ITA Singles All-American. The sophomore is 24-7 this season with 18 of those victories coming over ranked foes. Norrie is riding a five-match winning streak going into the match against Rediciki after playing at the top two positions in singles all season long. Norrie started the season ranked No. 15 in the Oracle/ITA singles poll before jumping up into the top 10 the rest of the season. The inaugural Oracle/ITA Masters Champion was ranked as high as No. 2 this season.
The recently crowned ITA National Men's Rookie of the Year, Rybakov has scored 20 wins in his debut campaign with a perfect 4-0 mark in conference action. The Coral Springs, Fla., native went 18-5 in dual matches and 10-5 against ranked opponents this season. Rybakov won eight of his last nine and scored a win in 17 of the team's victories this season. Rybakov entered the Oracle/ITA Singles poll at No. 122 in February and has only gone up from there. After defeating a top-10 opponent, Rybakov made an almost 100 jump in the rankings up to No. 24 and reached as high as No. 15 during the season.
TCU finished out its season last Friday by making it to the Round of 16 for the 10th time in program history and second straight season.
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