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Duke's Kelly McCain Seeded First for Omni Hotels National Indoor Championships
11/6/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Nov. 6, 2002
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas - Duke's Kelly McCain and Middle Tennessee's Daniel Klemetz are the No. 1 seeds for this week's Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, the second of three national championships for collegiate tennis this season, which open Thursday.
Duke's McCain and Middle Tennessee's Klemetz captured the singles titles at the first national tournaments of the season last month - the Riviera/ITA Women's and Icy Hot/ITA Men's All-American Championships, respectively.
Following McCain, the remaining top eight seeds in women's singles are (in order): Vilmarie Castellvi of Tennessee, Agata Cioroch of Georgia, Jewel Peterson of Southern California, Nataly Cahana of Old Dominion, Sara Walker of UCLA, Lindsay Dawaf of Florida and Julie Coin of Clemson. Following Klemetz, the remaining seeds in men's singles are: Jesse Witten of Kentucky, Amer Delic of Illinois, Benedict Dorsch of Baylor, Alex Vlaski of Washington, David Martin of Stanford, Rameez Junaid of Auburn and Oliver Maiberger of San Diego State.
In men's doubles, Illinois' Delic and Michael Calkins are the top seeds, followed by: Stanford's Martin and David Lipsky, San Diego State's Maiberger and Ryan Redondo and Rice's Richard and William Barker. Southern California's Peterson and Tiffany Brymer are the top seeds in women's doubles, followed by Oklahoma State's Linda Faltynkova and Katya Kolodnyska, Stanford's Lauren Barnikow and Erin Burdette and Florida's Alexis Gordon and Julia Scaringe.
San Diego State's Maiberger and Redondo are the defending champs in men's doubles and will be looking to become the first tandem to repeat.
The draws will be available tomorrow afternoon.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, the nation's premier collegiate indoor tennis tournaments for Division I men and women, are presented by the Dallas Morning News and hosted by SMU at the Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships feature a 32-player singles field and 16-team doubles field for men and women, including: qualifiers from Omni Hotels Regional Championships held across the country during October, the Omni Hotels National Small College champions, the winners of the Icy Hot/ITA Men's and Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships and at-large and wild card selections made by the ITA National Tournament Committee. Overall, more than 10,000 players from nearly 600 schools participate annually in the Omni Hotels Regional and National Intercollegiate Championships.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships were inaugurated in 1978 and recent champions and finalists include up-and-coming professionals Bea Bielik (Wake Forest), James Blake (Harvard), Laura Granville (Stanford), Marissa Irvin (Stanford), Jeff Morrison (Florida) and Alex Kim (Stanford). Longtime pros Todd Martin (Northwestern) and Lisa Raymond (Florida) are also among the past singles champions.
Wake Forest's Bielik captured the 2001 Omni Hotels women's singles title and Minnesota's Harsh Mankad collected the men's singles title. Stanford's Gabriela Lastra and Lauren Kalvaria claimed the women's doubles title and San Diego State's Maiberger and Redondo took home the men's doubles title.
The tournament can be followed at www.itatennis.com.
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(Release provided by ITA Media Relations)
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