Frogs Send Seven to All-American Championships
10/2/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Oct. 2, 2009
ALL-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS TOURNAMENT PAGE
FORT WORTH—The TCU men's tennis team takes to the road for the second straight week when it travels to Tulsa, Okla., for the D'Novo All-American Tennis Championships, which begin Saturday at Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center.
The tournament, set to run Oct. 3-11, marks 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, and the event will feature more than 400 singles players and 80 doubles teams. Competition will be split into three separate draws--prequalifying, qualifying and a main draw. The prequalifying draw leads into the qualifying draw, which leads into the main draw.
Competition begins Saturday with a field of 256 players in the prequalifying bracket. Sixteen athletes will advance to the 128-man qualifying draw, which runs Oct. 5-7, while the top 16 competitors in the qualifying section will then advance to compete in the 64-man main draw Oct. 8-11.
Doubles action follows the same format, although there is no prequalifying draw. The opening qualifying bracket (doubles begins Oct. 5) 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 the consolation round.
The following are TCU's accepted entries into the nine-day tournament:
SINGLES QUALIFYING
Emanuel Brighiu
Slah Mbarek
PREQUALIFYING SINGLES
Santiago Centeno
Marius-Adrian Cirstea
Paul Chappell
Zach Nichols
Chris Price
DOUBLES QUALIFYING
Emanuel Brighiu/Chris Price
Slah Mbarek/Marius-Adrian Cirstea
Recaps for each day of competition will be posted on GoFrogs.com. More information on the tournament, which includes draws, results and live video, can be found on Tulsa's official athletic web site at the link at the top of this page.
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