Men's Tennis Impressive in Tournaments
Led by junior Luigi D’Agord’s singles flight championship appearance at the 2005 UVa Fall Invitational in Charlottesville, Va., members of the University of Miami men’s tennis team posted an overall singles record of 11-6 in a pair of tournaments over the weekend.
After upending 68th-ranked Alex Hume of Kentucky in the semifinals Sunday morning, 26th-ranked D’Agord moved on to the flight “A” singles championship where he fell to 12th-ranked Somdev Devvarman of Virginia 7-6, 6-3 for the title.
D’Agord advanced to Sunday’s semifinals with a second-round win over Ashwin Kumar of Harvard, 7-6, 6-3, Friday followed by a win over 122nd-ranked Treat Huey of Virginia, 7-6, 6-2 in the third round and 61st-ranked Marko Miklo of Virginia, 7-5, 6-1, in the quarterfinals Saturday.
Senior Tim Krebs – ranked 62nd nationally – also advanced to Saturday’s “A” flight quarterfinals with two wins, nearly setting up an all-UM semifinal match, but fell to Hume in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.
Twentieth-ranked junior Josh Cohen made his way to the quarterfinals of the flight “B” bracket with a pair of wins, but fell at the hands of Devvarman, 6-2, 6-2.
Senior Eric Hechtman – ranked 100th – made it out of the first round of the flight “A” bracket with a three-set win over Kai Scheldom of Middle Tennessee before falling to Hume in the second round.
In doubles, D’Agord and Krebs defeated Dan Buikema and Sammy Struyf of Alabama, 8-2, in the first round of the flight “A” doubles bracket Saturday before falling to second-seeded Andreas Siljestrom and Marc Boiron of Middle Tennessee, 8-5, in the second round.
While D’Agord, Cohen, Krebs and Hechtman competed in Virginia, junior P.J. Passalacqua, senior John Hoyes and sophomore Vivek Subramanian took part in the 2005 USF Invitational in Tampa, Fla. Friday and Saturday
Passalacqua and Hoyes both advanced to Saturday’s quarterfinals in the “Green” flight, one of two flights, following first-round wins on Friday while Subramanian was forced to withdrawal from the tournament following a hamstring injury.
Passalacqua fell in the quarters to Dirk Britzen of South Florida, 6-0, 6-0. Hoyes downed Pasqual Duttlinger of Troy in three sets, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3, in Saturday’s quarters, but fell to Britzen, 6-1, 6-1, in the semifinal match.
In doubles, Hoyes and Passalacqua fell to UCF’s Norman Alcantara and Brock Sakey, 8-3, in the first round.
The Hurricanes will return to action next weekend, traveling to Gainesville, Fla. to take part in the Florida Invitational Friday-Sunday.
