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ITA All-American Championships Start Saturday
10/1/2010 5:23:00 PM | Men's Tennis
TULSA, Okla. - The 2010 D'Novo/ITA Men's All-American Championships start Saturday morning with the prequalifying rounds at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla. Duke will have five individuals in action on the first day.
Senior Jared Pinsky leads the group of five Blue Devils in prequalifying. He begins the tournament with a bye and will play his first match at 2 p.m. against either Paul Chappell (TCU) or Nikita Zotov (Iowa). Pinsky is 4-3 in singles this season, reaching the semifinals in both the Duke Fab Four Invite and the UVA Ranked Plus One Invitational.
David Holland, a junior from Pennington, N.J., is back after retiring in his second match during the first tournament of the season. He will take on Fernando Ristow (Pacific) in the first round of prequalifying at 9 a.m.
Tulsa, Okla. native Cale Hammond returns to his hometown this weekend. The freshman is 1-3 this season and will face either David Costa (Southern Methodist) at 12 noon on Saturday as both players have first round byes.
Freshman Chris Mengel already has one singles title this season, winning the Duke Fab Four Invite. He takes his 5-2 record into the weekend and will start things off with a bye in the first round. His first match will be at 2:30 against either Marc Bruche (Iowa) or Sven Poslusny (Utah State University).
Rounding out the list of players to start play on Saturday is freshman Fred Saba. He will square off against Carlos Morieras (Texas-San Antonio) on Saturday in the second round after each player bypasses the first round with a bye. Saba has a record of 3-4 in singles and reached the semifinals of the Duke Fab Four Invite before losing to his teammate Reid Carleton.
Carleton and sophomore Henrique Cunha have both been selected to the main draw. Carleton was an alternate who recently was moved in while Cunha was automatically put in after finishing last season ranked in the top 20 nationally. The duo is also in the main draw for doubles after earning National Doubles Team of the Year in 2009-10. Holland and Saba will play qualifying matches in doubles to try and join Carleton and Cunha in the main draw.
Duke has never had a champion in the tournament but has had one singles player and one doubles team reach the finals. Marko Cerenko lost to Genius Chidzikwe of Southern Methodist in three sets 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 back in 2000. Cerenko defeated his teammate, current Duke head coach Ramsey Smith, in the semifinals that year. In 1996, Sven Koehler and Dmitry Muzyka reached the doubles final but Pepperdine's Budgen/Sceney earned the title due to a walkover.
The tournament begins with 256 players and runs from Oct. 2-10. Players must win four rounds of singles over a course of two days in order to advance from the prequalifying stage to the qualfiying rounds. There are three rounds of qualifying with winners then advancing to the main draw where 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams will compete for the championship.
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