Todd Widom Set To Compete At The National Indoor Championships
Nov. 6, 2002
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas – The University of Miami’s Todd Widom will be competing at this week’s Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, the second of three national championships for collegiate tennis this season, which opens Thursday.
Widom, an ITA All-American as a freshman last season, is an at-large selection in men’s singles. He reached the second round at the first national tournament – the Icy Hot/ITA Men’s All-American Championships – in Chattanooga, Tenn., last month. Former Hurricane Mike Russell won the singles title at this event as a freshman in 1997.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, the nation’s premier collegiate indoor tennis tournaments for Division I men and women, are presented by the Dallas Morning News and hosted by SMU at the Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships feature a 32-player singles field and 16-team doubles field for men and women, including: qualifiers from Omni Hotels Regional Championships held across the country during October, the Omni Hotels National Small College champions, the winners of the Icy Hot/ITA Men’s and Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships and at-large and wild card selections made by the ITA National Tournament Committee. Overall, more than 10,000 players from nearly 600 schools participate annually in the Omni Hotels Regional and National Intercollegiate Championships.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships were inaugurated in 1978 and recent champions and finalists include up-and-coming professionals Bea Bielik (Wake Forest), James Blake (Harvard), Laura Granville (Stanford), Marissa Irvin (Stanford), Jeff Morrison (Florida) and Alex Kim (Stanford). Longtime pros Todd Martin (Northwestern) and Lisa Raymond (Florida) are also among the past singles champions.
Wake Forest’s Bielik captured the 2001 Omni Hotels women’s singles title and Minnesota’s Harsh Mankad collected the men’s singles title. Stanford’s Gabriela Lastra and Lauren Kalvaria claimed the women’s doubles title and San Diego State’s Oliver Maiberger and Ryan Redondo took home the men’s doubles title.
The tournament can be followed at www.itatennis.com.
