Vallverdu Claims 2006 Crimson Tide Championship Title

Oct. 29, 2006

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. –

Miami sophomore Daniel Vallverdu won the 2006 Crimson Tide Fall Championship top flight singles title Sunday with 6-2, 6-1 win over Mississippi State’s Pjotrs Necajevs as the Hurricanes wrapped up play at the three-day tournament held at the University of Alabama.<?xml:namespace prefix=”o” ns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”?>

Vallverdu claimed the championships after posting an overall singles record of 3-1 at the invite, which, including the Hurricanes, featured six different teams – Mississippi State, Georgia Tech, Nebraska, UAB and host Alabama – playing four doubles and eight singles matches against each other.

Despite playing in a team-versus-team format, the matches only count towards a player’s individual records and are not considered team competitions.

“Daniel got better and better throughout the weekend,” said head coach Mario Rincon. “He is becoming a better player every day and seems to be finishing more points at the net.”

As a team, <?xml:namespace prefix=”st1″ ns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags”?>Miami won 12 of the 28 singles matches played.

“Along with Daniel, I think Vivek (Subramanian) is someone who has really improved over the past few months and it really showed this weekend,” said Rincon of Subramanian, who posted an overall record of 3-1 over the weekend.

“Our new guys also got to play a lot of matches against great competition,” added Rincon.

Complete Results

Singles

Day 1, Friday, Oct. 27

Joseph Jung (Alabama) def. Daniel Vallverdu (Miami) 3-6, 7-6, 1-0 (10-8)
Billy Mertz (Alabama) def. Vivek Subramanian (Miami) 7-5, 6-7 (4), 1-0 (10-7)
Sammy Struyf (Alabama) def. Hector Nieto (Miami) 6-3, 6-2
Matthieu Thibaudeau (Alabama) def. Josip Rupena (Miami) 7-6 (3), 6-4
Javier Bes (Alabama) def. Barnabas Carrega (Miami) 6-0, 3-6, 1-0 (12-10)
Dan Buikema (Alabama) def. J.C. Whitner (Miami) 6-3, 6-2
Saketh Myneni (Alabama) def. Westin Wendt (Miami) 6-2, 6-2

Day 2, Saturday, Oct. 28

Daniel Vallverdu (Miami) def. Jordan Delass (Georgia Tech) 7-5, 6-1
Vivek Subramanian (Miami) def. Johannes Spangenberg (UAB) 6-3, 6-4
Hector Nieto (Miami) def. Luke Rossow-Kantor (Georgia Tech) 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
Barnabas Carrega (Miami) def. Austin Roebuck (Georgia Tech) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
George Gvelesiani (Georgia Tech) def. Josip Rupena (Miami) 6-0, 6-4

Alex Emery (UAB) def. J.C. Whitner (Miami) 6-4, 6-0
Adrian Tollstam (UAB) def. Westin Wendt (Miami) 7-5, 7-5 

Daniel Vallverdu (Miami) def. Adrian Szatmary (Nebraska) 6-0, 6-4
Vivek Subramian (Miami) def. James Clow (Nebraska) 7-5, 1-6, 10-5
Josip Rupena (Miami) def. Mark Tate (Nebraska) 6-0, 7-6
Barnabas Carrega (Miami) def. Arturo Navarro (Nebraska) 1-6, 7-6, 10-7

Westin Wendt (Miami) def. Sean Coetzee (Nebraska) 6-4, 6-1

Karl Jones (Nebraska) def. J.C. Whitner (Miami) 2-6, 6-4, 10-5
Hendrik Stahmer (Nebraska) def. Hector Nieto (Miami) 6-4, 7-5

Day 3, Sunday, Oct. 29

Daniel Vallverdu (Miami) def. Pjotrs Necajevs (Mississippi State) 6-2, 6-1
Vivek Subramian (Miami) def. Eric Lim (Mississippi State) 6-3, 7-5
Ryan Farlow (Mississippi State) def. Josip Rupena (Miami) 6-2, 6-1

Barnabas Carrega (Miami) def. Alex Emery (UAB) 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-4)
Tim Bauer (UAB) def. Hector Nieto (Miami) 6-3, 6-7 (4), 1-0 (10-1)
Thomas Weiss (UAB) def. Westin Wendt (Miami) 7-5, 6-4
Adrian Tollstam (UAB) def. J.C. Whitner (Miami) 6-2, 2-6, 1-0 (10-0)

Doubles

Day 1, Friday, Oct. 27

Vallverdu and Subramanian (Miami) def. Delass and Rassow-Kantor (Georgia Tech)  8-3
Carrega and Nieto (Miami) def. Blackmon and Gvelesieni (Georgia Tech) 9-8 (10-8)
Rupena and Whitner (Miami) def. Tollstan and Emery (UAB) 8-5
Bauer and Weiss (UAB) def. Wendt (Miami) and Roebuck (Georgia Tech) 8-4 
Buikema and Thibaudeau (Alabama) def. Vallverdu and Subramanian (Miami) 8-5
Mertz and Bes (Alabama) def. Carrega and Nieto (Miami) 8-1
Myneni and Kindervater (Alabama) def. Rupena and Whitner (Miami) 8-4
Jung and Striplin (Alabama) def. Wendt and Despotovski (Miami) 8-4

Day 2, Sunday, Oct. 29
Vallverdu and Subramanian (Miami) def. Necajevs and Kuznetsov (Mississippi State) 9-8 (8-6)
Lim and Farlow (Mississippi State) def. Nieto and Carrega (Miami) 9-7
Vallverdu and Subramanian (Miami) def. Szatmary and Tate (Nebraska) 8-2
Nieto and Carrega (Miami) def. Clow and VanImpe (Nebraska) 8-6
Navarro and Stahmer (Nebraska) def. Wendt and Whitner (Nebraska) 8-2