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2015 NCAA DIVISION I MEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS SINGLES AND DOUBLES SELECTIONS

INDIANAPOLIS--The NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis

Championships.

The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 20-25 at the Hurd Tennis Center in

Waco, Texas, following the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 14-19.

Baylor University will serve as host.

All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. Regular scoring and a 12-point tiebreaker at six- games-all will be used for all matches.

Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championships is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student- athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of

13 completed singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.

Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championships is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered NCAA NEWS RELEASE Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Page No. 2 ______

doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, eight must be completed, with four of the eight matches completed in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.

SINGLES

Automatic qualifications (15), listed alphabetically by conference:

American Athletic Dominik Koepfer Tulane ACC Noah Rubin Wake Forest Atlantic Sun Jack Findel-Hawkins North Florida Big Ten Leandro Toledo Minnesota Big 12 Axel Alvarez Llamas Oklahoma Conference USA Tomas Stillman UTSA Ivy Winston Lin Columbia Missouri Valley Alen Salibasic Drake Mountain West Samir Iftikhar New Mexico Pac-12 Mackenzie McDonald UCLA SEC Gonzales Austin Vanderbilt Southland Peter Nagy Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Summit League Henry Craig Denver Sun Belt Daniel Leitner South Alabama West Coast Uros Petronijevic San Diego

At-large selections (49), listed alphabetically by last name:

Nicolas Alvarez Duke Adrien Berkowicz Texas Andreas Bjerrehus Virginia Tech Romain Bogaerts Wake Forest Nick Chappell TCU Roberto Cid South Florida Chris Diaz Ohio State Jeremy Efferding Texas A&M Christopher Eubanks Georgia Tech Tom Fawcett Stanford Lloyd Glasspool Texas Andre Goransson California Farris Gosea Illinois NCAA NEWS RELEASE Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Page No. 3 ______

Yannick Hanfmann Southern California Raphael Hemmeler Duke Mitchell Frank Virginia Andrew Harris Oklahoma Jared Hiltzik Illinois Søren Hess-Olesen Texas Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Virginia Julian Lenz Baylor Mikelis Libietis Tennessee Benjamin Lock Florida State Tony Lupieri Baylor Dennis Mkrtchian UCLA Quentin Monaghan Notre Dame Wayne Montgomery Georgia Cameron Norrie TCU Denis Nguyen Harvard Lukas Ollert Auburn Tin Ostojic Wichita State Nathan Pasha Georgia Roberto Quiroz Southern California Or Ram-Harel Tulsa Dovydas Sakinis Dartmouth Ronnie Schneider North Carolina Brayden Schnur North Carolina Nik Scholtz Ole Miss Ryan Shane Virginia Sam Shropshire Northwestern Austin Smith Georgia Felipe Soares Texas Tech Sebastian Stiefelmeyer Louisville Jakob Sude Oklahoma State Jason Tahir Duke Maxime Tchoutakian Baylor Mikael Torpegaard Ohio State Jonny Wang Southern California Dane Webb Oklahoma

ALTERNATES*:

1. Guillermo Nunez TCU 2. Matic Spec Minnesota 3. Nick Crystal Southern California 4. Florian Lakat Mississippi State 5. Diego Hidalgo Florida 6. Naoki Takeda Arizona NCAA NEWS RELEASE Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Page No. 4 ______

7. Ben Lott Drake 8. Tim Kopinski Illinois 9. Beck Pennington Kentucky 10. Robbie Mudge North Carolina State

*If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible singles player or doubles team from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.

Seeds 1-8:

1. Axel Alvarez Llamas Oklahoma 2. Julian Lenz Baylor 3. Mackenzie McDonald UCLA 4. Andrew Harris Oklahoma 5. Sebastian Stiefelmeyer Louisville 6. Søren Hess-Olesen Texas 7. Noah Rubin Wake Forest 8. Ryan Shane Virginia

Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name:

Nicolas Alvarez Duke Gonzales Austin Vanderbilt Romain Bogaerts Wake Forest Yannick Hanfmann Southern California Dominik Koepfer Tulane Mikelis Libietis Tennessee Quentin Monaghan Notre Dame Brayden Schnur North Carolina

DOUBLES

Automatic qualifications (11), listed alphabetically by conference:

American Athletic Oliver Pramming Justin Roberts South Florida ACC Luca Corinteli Ryan Shane Virginia Big Ten Kevin Metka Ralf Steinbach Ohio State Big 12 Julian Lenz Diego Galeano Baylor Ivy Denis Nguyen Brian Yeung Harvard Missouri Valley Tomislav Gregurovic Tin Ostojic Wichita State Pac-12 Roberto Quiroz Yannick Hanfmann Southern California SEC Ben Wagland Austin Smith Georgia Southland Michael Feucht Nikita Lis Lamar NCAA NEWS RELEASE Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Page No. 5 ______

Summit League Henry Craig Alex Gasson Denver West Coast Filip Vittek Jordan Angus San Diego

At-large selections (21), listed alphabetically by institution:

Korey Lovett Becker O'Shaughnessey Alabama Lukas Ollert Marko Krickovic Auburn Nicolas Alvarez Raphael Hemmeler Duke Benjamin Lock Marco Nunez Florida State Tim Kopinski Ross Guignon Illinois Jordan Daigle Boris Arias LSU John Patrick Mullane Harry Jadun Michigan State Julian Cash Florian Lakat Mississippi State Alex Lawson Billy Pecor Notre Dame Axel Alvarez Llamas Dane Webb Oklahoma Arjun Kadhe Jakob Sude Oklahoma State Nik Scholtz Zvonimir Babic Ole Miss John Morrissey Robert Stineman Stanford Nick Chappell Will Stein TCU Mikelis Libietis Hunter Reese Tennessee Lloyd Glasspool Søren Hess-Olesen Texas Harrison Adams Shane Vinsant Texas A&M Hugo Dojas Felipe Soares Texas Tech Mackenzie McDonald Martin Redlicki UCLA Gonzales Austin Rhys Johnson Vanderbilt Christian Seraphim Skander Mansouri Wake Forest

ALTERNATES*:

1. Kyle Koch Thiago Pinheiro South Carolina 2. Cameron Norrie Trevor Johnson TCU 3. Roberto Cid Sasha Gozun South Florida 4. Ian Dempster Robbie Mudge North Carolina State 5. Chris Kipouras Dovydas Sakinis Dartmouth 6. Eddy Covalschi Josh Hagar Notre Dame

*If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible singles player or doubles team from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.

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Seeds 1-4:

1. Ben Wagland Austin Smith Georgia 2. Roberto Quiroz Yannick Hanfmann Southern California 3. Luca Corinteli Ryan Shane Virginia 4. Mikelis Libietis Hunter Reese Tennessee Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution:

Julian Lenz Diego Galeano Baylor Julian Cash Florian Lakat Mississippi State Kevin Metka Ralf Steinbach Ohio State Gonzales Austin Rhys Johnson Vanderbilt

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