2008 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 2008 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis
Championships.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 21-26 at the Michael D. Case
Tennis Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following the conclusion of the team championship (May 16-20).
The University of Tulsa 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 will be 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 will apply the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championships will be awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60
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eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee will apply the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences.
SINGLES
Automatic qualifications (18), listed alphabetically by conference :
Atlantic Coast Somdev Devvarman Virginia Atlantic Sun Enrique Olivares East Tennessee State Big 12 Oleksandr Nedovyesov Oklahoma State Big East Brett Helgeson Notre Dame Big South Martin Sayer Radford Big Ten Bryan Koniecko Ohio State Big West Victor Lamm UC Irvine Colonial Alexandru Cojanu William and Mary C-USA Bruno Rosa Rice Ivy Chris Clayton Harvard Missouri Valley Dalibor Pavic Drake Mountain West Cosmin Cotet TCU Ohio Valley Borja Zarco Tennessee Tech Pacific-10 Robert Farah Southern California SEC Greg Ouellette Florida Sun Belt Jack Baker South Alabama West Coast Andre Begemann Pepperdine WAC Clancy Shields Boise State
At-large selections (46), listed alphabetically by last name :
Bruno Agostinelli Kentucky Jean-Yves Aubone Florida State Moritz Baumann Wisconsin Bassam Beidas Pepperdine Ivan Bjelica Mississippi State Nestor Briceno Florida Arnau Brugues Tulsa Austen Childs Louisville Alex Clayton Stanford Ed Corrie Texas Andrei Daescu Oklahoma Kellen Damico Texas Mathieu Dehaine UCLA Philippe Frayssinoux Mississippi State Ruben Gonzales Illinois
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David Goulet Duke Travis Helgeson Georgia Kaden Hensel Tennessee Adam Holmstrom Denver Treat Huey Virginia Jamie Hunt Georgia Dominic Inglot Virginia Justin Kronauge Ohio State Dimitar Kutrovsky Texas Albert Larregola Virginia Tech Thomas Liversage San Diego Denes Lukacs Baylor James McGee North Carolina State Steven Moneke Ohio State Cory Parr Wake Forest Lars Poerschke Baylor Jaak Poldma Southern California Conor Pollock Texas A&M Robbye Poole Mississippi Ryan Preston Vanderbilt Ryan Rowe Illinois Nate Schnugg Georgia J.P. Smith Tennessee Harel Srugo UCLA Bojan Szumanski Texas Tech Alexey Tsyrenov Auburn Erling Tveit Mississippi Daniel Vallverdu Miami (Florida) Kaes Van’t Hof Southern California Michael Venus LSU Matthias Wellermann Mississippi
ALTERNATES: 1. Guillermo Gomez Georgia Tech 2. Luis Flores Georgia 3. Michael James Penn State 4. Holden Seguso UCLA 5. Christoph Muller Rice 6. Dean Jackson San Diego 7. Matko Maravic Michigan 8. Joel Kusnierz St. Mary's (California) 9. Alex Lacroix Florida 10. Bart van Monsjou Iowa
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Seeds 1-8:
1. Somdev Devvarman Virginia 2. Greg Ouellette Florida 3. Oleksandr Nedovyesov Oklahoma State 4. Travis Helgeson Georgia 5. Daniel Vallverdu Miami (Florida) 6. Robert Farah Southern California 7. Lars Poerschke Baylor 8. Alex Clayton Stanford
Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name :
Jean-Yves Aubone Florida State Andre Begemann Pepperdine Ivan Bjelica Mississippi State Dominic Inglot Virginia Dimitar Kutrovsky Texas Denes Lukacs Baylor Bruno Rosa Rice Nate Schnugg Georgia
DOUBLES
Automatic qualifications (13), listed alphabetically by conference :
Atlantic Coast Treat Huey Somdev Devvarman Virginia Big 12 Kellen Damico Ed Corrie Texas Big Ten Bryan Koniecko Steven Moneke Ohio State Big East Austen Childs Simon Childs Louisville C-USA Ralph Knupfer Christoph Muller Rice Colonial Alexandru Cojanu Keziel Juneau William and Mary Ivy Ashwin Kumar Sasha Ermakov Harvard Mountain West Kriegler Brink Cosmin Cotet TCU Pacific-10 Kaes Van’t Hof Robert Farah Southern California SEC Erling Tveit Jonas Berg Mississippi Sun Belt Adam Holmstrom Niklas Persson Denver West Coast Andre Begemann Omar Altmann Pepperdine WAC Luke Shields Clancy Shields Boise State
At-large selections (19), listed alphabetically by institution :
Daniel Buikema Mathieu Thibaudeau Alabama Jean-Yves Aubone Clint Bowles Florida State Jamie Hunt Nate Schnugg Georgia NCAA NEWS RELEASE Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Page No. 5 ______
Ryan Rowe Billy Heiser Illinois Bruno Agostinelli Brad Cox Kentucky James Cluskey Michael Venus LSU Andy Orbran Boris Fetbroyt Maryland Daniel Vallverdu Carl Sundberg Miami (Florida) Adam Monich Nick Rinks Michigan State Bram ten Berge Matthias Wellermann Mississippi Taylor Fogleman Chris Kearney North Carolina Nick Cavaday Jay Weinacker North Carolina State Drew Eberly Justin Kronauge Ohio State Nathan Byrnes Oleksandr Nedovyesov Oklahoma State Kaden Hensel J.P. Smith Tennessee Conor Pollack Austin Krajicek Texas A&M Bojan Szumanski Christian Rojmar Texas Tech Ross Cunningham Andy Connelly Tulsa Cory Parr Steven Forman Wake Forest
ALTERNATES: 1. Greg Ouellette Jeff Dadamo Florida 2. Matko Maravic George Navas Michigan 3. Michael James Brendan Lynch Penn State 4. David Goulet Christopher Price Duke 5. Ivan Bjelica Philippe Frayssinoux Mississippi State 6. Sanam Singh Michael Shabaz Virginia
Seeds 1-4:
1. Treat Huey Somdev Devvarman Virginia 2. Kaes Van’t Hof Robert Farah Southern California 3. Daniel Vallverdu Carl Sundberg Miami (Florida) 4. Erling Tveit Jonas Berg Mississippi
Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution :
Andy Orbran Boris Fetbroyt Maryland Taylor Fogleman Chris Kearney North Carolina Kaden Hensel J.P. Smith Tennessee Cory Parr Steven Forman Wake Forest