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 |  | 2003 ITA All-American Pre-Qualies
 |  | | | Dates: | October 3-6, 2003 | | Divisions: | Msd | | Hosting Site: | The Champions Club
P.O. Box 6
Lupton City (Chatta., TN USA 37351-0006 | | Draw Phone: | 423-870-3112 | | Chairman: | Orlando Lourenco | | Referee: | Mac MacDougal | | Section: | Southern | |
MONDAY'S PLAYER OF THE DAY:
The final match of the Pre-Qualifying proved to be one of best matches of the event -- and Monday's match of the day. The University of Florida's Vlad Obradovic -- among the No. 1 seeds -- held off fellow Southeastern Conference Ken Skupski of LSU -- another No. 1 -- to earn the final spot in Tuesday's Qualifying. Also advancing are UL-Lafayette's Evgeni Corduneau, Nathan Price of Arkansas, Virginia Tech's Stephane Rod, Josh Cohen of Miami, Fla., and Kentucky's Nate Emge.
SUNDAY: LUCKY LOSERS ANNOUNCED:
After Sunday's round-of-32 play at the Champions Club, two berths into Tuesday's start of the Qualifying round opened, allowed two unplayed matches on Monday for "lucky losers'' to advance. The lucky losers advancing to the Qualifying are Jacopo Tezza ofTexas Christian University, Florida's Martin Stiegwardt, Montana State's Federico Ueltschi and Tigran Martirosyan of the University of Kentucky.
SUNDAY'S MATCH OF THE DAY:
Nathan Price of the University of Arkansas, one of the Pre-Qualie No. 1 seeds, lost his opening set and fought for the split by escaping in a second-set breaker, then dominated the deciding set, toppling No. 17 Bastian Faisst of Arkansas-Little Rock, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1.
SATURDAY'S PLAYER OF THE DAY:
It might not have been the longest match on Saturday under sunny skies at the Champions Club, or the most suspenseful, but it was the strangest. The University of Kentucky's Nate Emge -- one of the Pre-Qualie No. 1 seeds -- dropped his opening set 6-0 toRobbye Poole of Clemson. However, Emge bounced back and never lost another game, advancing to Sunday's round-of-32 with a 0-6, 6-0, 6-0 triumph.
FRIDAY'S PLAYER OF THE DAY:
University of Central Florida's Gabriel Stangberg had a long, but successful opening day to the 2003 Icy Hot/ITA All-American Championships at the Champions Club. Stangberg pulled out two three-setters to advance to Saturday's round-of-64 play. In his morning test, Standberg escaped Matt Laramore of Ball State, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, then followed with an afternoon decision over Oklahoma State's Tomas Bohunicky, 6-7 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
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