Qualifying Complete at All-American; ITF Grade A Osaka Cup Underway

    ©Colette Lewis 2008--
    Tulsa, OK--
    Matches begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, so this will be a brief post on the final day of qualifying, which was over before we arrived this evening.

    Ohio State's Shuhei Uzawa won his sixth straight match, three in pre-qualifying and three in qualifying, to earn a spot in the main draw today and he is joined by teammate Balazs Novak. Two other schools also placed two players in the main draw via qualifying--Stanford with Bradley Klahn and Richard Wire advancing, and Virginia, with Houston Barrick and Michael Shabaz getting through. The team with the most qualifiers however was Ole Miss with three: Jonas Berg, Bram Ten Berge and Halle Norberg. I'll be trying my best to keep them all straight, but that's a lot of bergs to keep track of.

    Doubles qualifying followed the singles morning matches, and eight teams advanced, most of them from the state of Texas.

    TCU placed two teams in the main, as did UT-Austin, and Rice chipped in with one. The other three were from Pepperdine (Altmann and Beidas, the No. 1 seeds), Auburn and Nebraska. The Cornhusker team of David Bendheim and Calin Paar ousted No. 2 seeds Allare and O'Connell of Ohio State 9-7, the only match of the eight to play more than 13 games.

    For complete results, and Thursday's main draws in singles and doubles, see the ITA tournament site.

    The ITF Grade A Osaka Mayors Cup is underway in Japan, and unlike last year, when Ryan Harrison won it and Bo Seal made the semifinals, there is no American presence at all on the boys side. In fact the only boys from North or South America in the draw are Canadians Kelsey Stevenson and Milos Raonic. The only U.S. girl to make the trip was Noel Scott, who lost in the first round.

    For complete draws, visit the ITF junior website.

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