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Hiscox Advances To Qualifier Without Playing A Match
October 08, 2001 | Men's Tennis
Oct. 8, 2001
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - The 256-player singles prequalifying draw was trimmed down to a final 10, including a member of the Bowling Green State University men's tennis team, at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Men's All-American Championships Monday (Oct. 8). The tournament is being held at the Lincoln Tennis Center.
A BGSU doubles team also remains in action at the tourney, and will play Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 9).
BGSU junior Geoff Hiscox advanced to the qualifying tournament which takes place Tuesday and Wednesday (Oct. 10-11). Players must win two more matches to reach the Oct. 11-14 main draw.
The other competitors who advanced include TCU's Daniel Wajnberg, Baylor's Marcus Hornung, Matias Marin and Zoltan Papp, Arkansas' Oggie Kolev, Wisconsin's Alexander Kasarov, Vanderbilt's Chad Harris, Pepperdine's Calle Hansen and Florida State's Romain Jurd.
All but three of the 10 players won their fifth match in four days to advance. Due to two late withdrawals in the qualifying tournament, the match between Hiscox and TCU's Wajnberg was pulled, allowing both to advance, and FSU's Jurd lost his fourth round match, but was drawn as a "lucky loser."
Hiscox is scheduled to meet Tulsa's Pavel Sebastyanski in Tuesday action.
Additionally, Hiscox and BGSU senior Mike Kossoff are in the doubles qualifier, according to Falcon head coach Jay Harris. The Hiscox/Kossoff tandem, an alternate for the qualifier, were selected to participate when a doubles slot came open.
Hiscox is scheduled to meet Sebastyanski at noon Tuesday, with the BGSU doubles match set to begin at 2:30 p.m.
"We're extremely excited," said Harris. "This is the first time our program has gotten this far in singles action. We got to the qualifier in doubles, of course, a few years ago (the team of Radu Bartan and Matt Wiles), but for Geoff to win that many singles matches is quite an accomplishment.
"Really, for the entire team to win as many matches as we did and compete as well as we have, we are very excited. We feel that we have taken another step forward as a program. Basically, we have someone competing among the top-50 singles players in the nation, and a doubles team in among the top 40 or 50 teams. We are very excited to be competing with those types of teams and players."
The first ITA national and singles and doubles championships of the 2001-02, the ITA All-American Championships are one of three national collegiate tennis championships of the season. The ITA Men's All-American Championships, the Nov. 8-11 Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, and the year-end NCAA Championships are college tennis' three national championship events during the season.
With 360 players competing in the singles draws, the ITA Men's All-American Championships are largest collegiate tennis tournament in the country.
The tournament can be followed at www.itatennis.com.
Monday's results
Prequalifying Singles - Qualifying Round: Matias Marin (Baylor) def. Joao Menano (Georgia Tech) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 Oggie Kolev (Arkansas) def. David Lowenthal (Wake Forest) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 Zoltan Papp (Baylor) def. Bobby Reynolds (Vanderbilt) 6-2, 6-3 Alexander Kasarov (Wisconsin) def. Martin Jirak (Florida Atlantic) 6-3, 6-2 Chad Harris (Vanderbilt) def. Ricardo Rizzo (San Diego) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 Calle Hansen (Pepperdine) def. Romain Jurd (Florida State) 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-3 Marcus Hornung (Baylor) def. Alex Zharinov (Minnesota) 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (2) Geoff Hiscox (Bowling Green) vs. Daniel Wajnberg (TCU) (not played, both advance)
Qualifying Singles - First Round (Tuesday) (1) Steven Capriati (Arizona) vs. Andrew Colombo (Auburn) Brian Wilson (Illinois) vs. Daniel Wajnberg (TCU) (q/LL) (13) Rodrigo Echagaray (Texas) vs. Chris Gostek (Alabama) Lassi Ketola (UCLA) vs. Adam Marchetti (Virginia Tech) (8) Toni Gordon (TCU) vs. Guillaume Bouvier (Boise State) Michael Calkins (Illinois) vs. Marcus Hornung (Baylor) (q) (9) Jesse Smatt (LSU) vs. Calle Hansen (Pepperdine) (q) Aaron Talarico (Notre Dame) vs. David Wright (Georgia Tech) (3) Mariano Pettigrosso (Arkansas-Little Rock) vs. Romain Jurd (Florida State) (LL) Chris Martin (Illinois) vs. Sebastian Rutka (LSU) (12) Reiner Neurohr (Baylor) vs. Oliver Foreman (Middle Tennessee State) Mike Kosta (Illinois) vs. Oggie Kolev (Arkansas) (q) (6) Stefan Hirn (Indiana State) vs. Davor Dupljak (Virginia Tech) Sebastian Graeff (Pepperdine) vs. Chris McDonald (Florida) (15) Carlos Lozano (BYU) vs. Frantisek Krepelka (Oklahoma State) Sam Warburg (Stanford) vs. Mattias Mathaes (Rice) Eleazar Magallan (Florida) vs. Amer Delic (Illinois) Matias Marin (Baylor) (q) vs. (16) Jackie Jenkins (Northwestern) Gert Vilms (BYU) vs. Nick Fustar (Fresno State) Chad Harris (Vanderbilt) (q) vs. (7) Andy Leber (Texas-Arlington) Jesse Witten (Kentucky) vs. Marcin Matkowski (UCLA) Marcus Berntson (Boise State) vs. (11) William Barker (Rice) Kosta Zinchanka (South Alabama) vs. Ryan Mauck (SMU) Alexander Kasarov (Wisconsin) (q) vs. (4) Ryan Newport (Texas A&M) Hamid Mirzadeh (Florida) vs. Adrian Bohane (Ohio State) Zoltan Papp (Baylor) (q) vs. (14) Xavier Luscan (Florida State) Peter Malacek (Portland) vs. Pablo Perez Gras (Georgia State) Andre van der Merve (UAB) vs. (5) Keith From (Texas A&M) Benjamin Becker (Baylor) vs. Nathan Zeder (Illinois) Mike Yani (Duke) vs. (10) Javier Taborga (Notre Dame) Pavel Sebastyanski (Tulsa) vs. Geoff Hiscox (Bowling Green) (q/LL) Johan Brunstrom (SMU) vs. (2) Marcio Petrone (North Carolina)
(Some information for this story courtesy of the ITA's Casey Angle)
