Petros Chrysochos Takes Tulsa, Bergevi/Lakat Tame North Florida, Holt Halts Schneider in Consol Final

Wake Forest sophomore Petros Chrysochos is your 2016 Saint Francis Health System Men's All-American Champion after overpowering Ohio State junior Hugo Di Feo.

Chrysochos entered the match as the higher ranked player but it was Di Feo that got off to the quick start after breaking from 30/40 to take an early 2-1 lead. Chrysochos immediately broke back, from 15/40, and then held at love to go ahead 3-2. Di Feo held from 40/15 and then went up 0/30 on Chrysochos's serve but the Demon Deacon took the next four points to hold for 4-3. After a pair of holds, Di Feo went up 30/0 on his 4-5 service game but Chrysochos won the next three points to take a 30/40 lead. Di Feo got it to the deciding no-ad (40/40) point after Chrysochos broke his string on the service return (which didn't make it back over the net) but Chrysochos got the break and the first set after hitting a forehand winner.

Torp and Thai-Son Move On To Round 2 & Let's Up The Flo

Each of the top seven seeds picked up wins on a hot, humid, and windy day in Tulsa with straight set matches the norm. 25 of 32 first round matches finished in straight sets though several of those were tightly contested.

The top seeded Mikael Torpegaard cruised to a 6-2 first set against Virginia senior J.C. Aragone but the hard hitting Cavalier fought back in the second set. Aragone broke Torpegaard on a disputed line call on the no-ad point to take a 4-2 lead but a fired up Torpegaard broke back from 15/40 and then held for 4-4 after Aragone netted a forehand on the no-ad point. Torpegaard broke for 6-5 when Aragone netted another forehand on the no-ad point and then the Buckeye junior held from 40/30 to close it out 6-2, 7-5.

Men's All-American Main Draw Breakdown

It's time for the main event in Tulsa with all 64 competitors known after the conclusion of the qualifying rounds. The main draw is out and there are going to be some juicy opening round matches. I thought I would take a look at the composition of the men's field and show you where the 64 players came from and how they made the field.

40 players made the main draw based off the ITA's preseason ranking with the last acceptance being USC's Logan Smith who was ranked No. 48.

Men's AA Qualies Wrap Up While the Women Start Back Up

The men's pre-qualifying and qualifying rounds in Tulsa have come to a close as the 16 qualifiers will get a day off before the main draw begins on Thursday.

South Florida junior Peter Bertran, Texas freshman Christian Sigsgaard, and Columbia freshman Alex Keyser each qualified for the main draw after starting play back on Saturday in pre-qualies. Four freshman qualified for the main draw, three schools had multiple qualifiers, and 11 of the 16 qualifiers came from schools in Power 5 conference.

Bechard and Jacobs Pull Off Qualifying Day 1 Upsets in Tulsa

The opening day of the singles qualifying draw is in the books with four of the top 10 seeds, including the top seed, making an early exit. There was one Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) upset with South Alabama's Tuki Jacobs (13.23) knocking off the No. 4 seed Memphis's Ryan Peniston (14.36) in straight sets.

Qualifiers from the pre-qualifying draw went a stout 10-6 while both lucky losers were defeated for the second match in a row. Freshmen went 11-5 on the day with 4 of the winners coming through pre-qualies which meant they've now won 5 matches in the last 3 days.

All-American Pre-Q's Wrap Up & Men's Qualifying Draw Broken Down by UTR

The All-American pre-qualifying rounds are in the books with 8 women moving on to the qualifying rounds while 16 men move on to the qualifying round. Below are all the Sunday scores and down at the bottom I have the qualie draw broken down by UTR, school, and seed.

Women's Pre-Q by Conference:
SEC (4) - Foster (Jr), Pierson (Sr), Liang (Sr), Kulhman (Jr)
Pac 12 (2) - Westby (Jr), Shibahara (Fr)
ACC (1) - Chi (Fr)
WCC (1) - Lahey (Fr)

All-American Pre-Qs Underway

The scores trickled in throughout the day in Tulsa and Pacific Palisades as both the men and women played two rounds in the pre-qualifying draw. The top three seeds in the women's draw were removed with two (Neda Koprcina/Madison Harrison) getting bumped up to the qualifying draw and the other withdrawing (Rianna Valdes). Women's top 16 seeds went 11-2 in the Round of 64 and 7-4 in the Round of 32. 5 of the top 8 seeds on the men's side advanced to the Round of 64 after each got a bye in the Round of 256.

Men's All-American Pre-Qualie Draw with UTRs

The pre-qualifying singles draws is out for the Saint Francis Health System Men's All-American Championships with play beginning on Saturday morning in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 16 of the 242 singles participants will advance to the 64-person qualifying draw. I also ran the Universal Tennis Ratings on each of the 242 singles participants which you can view in the table below.

Pre-Q Singles Draw
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ACI Finals Set, Ram Falls in Mixed Dubs Final, Hart/Shibahara Advance to USOJ Dubs Final, All-American Fields Announced

Virginia senior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski will meet recent Georgia graduate Austin Smith on Saturday in the men's final of the American Collegiate Invitational while it'll be recent Michigan graduate Ronit Yurovsky taking on the two-time NCAA singles champion and Virginia graduate Danielle Collins in the women's final.

Thai-Son Kwiatkowski needed just 53 minutes to get past Stanford junior Tom Fawcett 6-2, 6-0. Kwiatkowski won 64% of the points on Fawcett's serve and converted six of seven break points with Fawcett only landing 38% of his first serves. Kwiatkowski won 24 of 31 points in the 22 minute second set.

Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Rolls To All-American Singles & Doubles Championship

Virginia's Thai-Son Kwiatkowski is the 2015 Saint Francis Health System ITA Men's All-American Singles Champion after routing Tulane's Dominik Koepfer 6-0, 6-2 in the finals in a match that took around 55 minutes to complete.

Kwiatkowski was in control from start to finish by working Koepfer from side-to-side and more points than not ended with a Koepfer miss with many coming off the forehand wing. Kwiatkowski played great defense but also hit some huge forehands to finish off several games.

3 of Koepfer's 7 service games went to the deciding 40-40 point and he lost all 3. Koepfer struggled at the net and lost 3 different games on a volley that he either mishit or didn't place well enough.

Kwiatkowski/Koepfer Into Finals, Norrie & Tearney Win Futures, UGA Club Team Takes Fall Invitational

After a few close matches on Saturday, Sunday brought a pair of straight sets wins with little suspense as Virginia's Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Tulane's Dominik Koepfer each rolled into the finals.

Thai-Son Kwiatkowski actually fell behind Stanford's Tom Fawcett 2-0 in the opening set but then he reeled off 5 straight games to go up 5-2. After a Fawcett hold, Kwiatkowski would serve out the set and then go up an immediate break in the second set to put Fawcett on his heels. Kwiatkowski wouldn't let up and would close out the 6-3, 6-2 win in just over an hour.

Dominik Koepfer would book his spot to the finals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Cal's Andre Goransson. Koepfer broke the Goransson serve in the 10th and final game of each set to close it out.

Down to the Final 4

Saturday was a busy day for the guys in Tulsa with both the Round of 16 and Quarterfinals held within hours of each other but by the time the dust cleared we had our final 4 and they all happen to be top 16 seeds.

The 8 morning matches saw 6 finish in straight sets with Tom Fawcett, Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, Hugo Di Feo, Dominik Koepfer, Uros Petronijevic, and Andre Goransson each winning somewhat comfortably.

Both Ronnie Schneider and Konrad Zieba needed 3 sets in their Round of 16 matches though both cruised in the 3rd set taking the final set by 6-2 scores.  The one thing that was a little strange was the fact that Ronnie Schneider and Shane Vinsant started their Round of 16 match a good two and a half hours after several of the other matches. In fact as the 3rd set started the 3 other quarterfinal matches had already began.

All-American 2nd Round: #1 Monaghan, #2 Alvarez, #6 Cid, #8 Montgomery Upset

Rain pushed play indoors on Day 2 of the main draw in Tulsa but that didn't hurt Auburn's Marko Krickovic as the qualifer knocked off the #1 seed Quentin Monaghan (Notre Dame) 1-6, 7-5, 7-5. Monaghan cruised to a 6-1 opening set but Krickovic turned it around in the 2nd set and went up 5-2. Krickovic got broke serving for the set up 5-2 and 5-4 but then he broke Monaghan to go up 6-5 and finally got a service hold to take the set 7-5.  The 3rd set stayed on serve until Krickovic broke for a 4-3 lead and then he consolidated the break with a hold for 5-3. Monaghan would come back from 0-40 down on his serve to hold for 5-4 and then he'd go up 0-40 on the Krickovic serve before breaking from 30-40 to even the match at 5-5. Krickovic would break back on the 40-40 deciding point by clubbing a Monaghan second serve and then finishing at the net with an overhead. Krickovic didn't fool around on his next service game and held quickly at love to finish off the upset win.

Main Draw Round 1 Results

Today was the beginning of the main draw at the All-Americans in Tulsa but things didn't exactly go as planned.  Play was supposed to begin at 9am central but due to an issue with the draw the ITA had to redo it which meant that play was pushed back by 3 hours until 12pm central.  The issue was that all 16 qualifiers were set to face a top 16 seed which isn't the way it's supposed to be done so after the draw was restructured we had 31 new match-ups with only the Nicolas Alvarez/Joao Monteiro pairing staying the same.

Once play begin there was 1 top 8 seed to get upset with #5 Romain Bogaerts of Wake Forest going down to Denver's Diogo Rocha 6-3, 6-3. This was also a Universal Tennis Rating upset with Rocha having a 13.23 UTR and Bogaerts a 14.37 UTR.

There were 2 other Top 16 seeds to get defeated with Georgia's Austin Smith and Texas Tech's Felipe Soares getting knocked out by Texas A&M's Shane Vinsant and USC's Nick Crystal.

The ITA's recap has a few quotes from some of the winners.


All-American 1st Round Results:

[1] Monaghan (ND) def. [WC] Lovett (AL) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3

[Q] Krickovic (AU) def. [WC] Pritchard (TU) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1

[9-16] Fawcett (ST) def. Lomacki (UM) 6-4, 6-4

[Q] Duncan (UGA) def. [Q] Bushamuka (UK) 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(5)

[7] Schneider (UNC) def. Torpegaard (OSU) 6-4, 7-6(5)

Qualifying Is Complete - Main Draw Starts Tomorrow

After 5 days of qualifying the field is now set for the main draw at this year's ITA Men's All-American Championships.

Florida freshman Alfredo Perez pulled off the somewhat rare feat of going 7-0 over the last 5 days by coming from the pre-qualifying draw to the qualifying draw and now to the main draw.  Ohio State's Matt Mendez, who got into the qualifying draw as a lucky loser, almost joined Perez in the main draw but after rallying from 5-2 down in the 3rd to tie it at 5-5 he would drop the final 2 games and lose 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 to North Carolina's Robert Kelly.

Perez is joined by 2 other freshman in the main draw with Georgia's Walker Duncan and Ohio State's Hugo Di Feo also qualifying.

Qualifying Draw Continues - Seeds Continue To Fall

There were 32 seeded players in the 128 man qualifying draw but only 11 are still alive as we head to the final day of qualifying at the All-American's in Tulsa.

There were 3 Top 10 seeds knocked out on Tuesday as San Diego's Jordan Angus defeated the #1 seed, UCLA's Martin Redlicki, 6-3, 6-4, Northwestern's Konrad Zieba defeated the #8 seed, Cal's Filip Bergevi, 7-6(7), 6-2, and Tulane's Constantin Schmitz cruised past the #9 seed, Oklahoma State's Arjun Kadhe, 6-4, 6-1.

The 3 Top 10 seeds that made it to the final round of qualies are Memphis's Andrew Watson (#2) who defeated UCLA's Karue Sell 7-6(3), 6-4, USC's Max De Vroome (#5) who got past Arkansas's Jose Salazar 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-2, and Florida State's Michael Rinaldi (#10) who defeated Charlotte's Jordi Ferrer 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Pre-Q's Wrap Up and Qualies Get Started

The final round of the pre-qualifying draw was completed on Monday and the 16 pre-qualifers had a quick turnaround as they had to play again in the opening round of the qualifying draw. Below are the guys that came through pre-q's:

16 Pre-Qualifers
David Fox (Denver 12.66)

Yannick Zuern (North Florida 13.04)
Alfredo Perez (Florida 13.63)
Jose Salazar (Arkansas 13.77)
Maksim Kan (Wake Forest 13.18)
[9-16] John Mee (Texas 13.48)
[17-32] Sam Matheson (Liberty 12.54)
Leopold Gomez Inslinger (UW-Green Bay 12.77)
[17-32] Jordi Arconada (Texas A&M 13.59)
Cristobal Rivera (Loyola Marymount 12.92)
Howard Scott (UW-Green Bay 12.57)
Jerry Lopez (TCU 13.78)
[9-16] Ricky Medinilla (Purdue 12.67)
[5] Michael Riechmann (Texas 12.77)
Keivon Tabrizi (Wake Forest 12.85)
Jakob Amilon (UNLV 13.13)

Day 2 Pre-Q Results + Qualie Draw Is Out (UTRs Added)

The 266 man pre-qualifying draw is down to the final 32 with 16 matches tomorrow to decide who goes on to the 128 man qualifying draw. It's interesting to note that only 8 of the 32 seeded players have made it to the final round and only 1 of the top 8 seeds is still alive.

If you look the qualifying draw further down you'll notice there are 19 spots reserved for guys coming from the pre-qualifying draw - 16 of those will be earned with the other 3 going to lucky losers. If the ITA does what the ATP/ITF does and awards the lucky loser spots to the highest ranked losers then that guarantees Michael Riechmann a spot since he is the highest remaining seed (#5) and John Mee, Ricky Medinilla, and Dave Bacalla would also have to be feeling good as well since they were seeded in the 9-16 bucket.

Here are you final pre-qualifying match-ups along with each player's Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) as of 10/5.

Sebastian Rey (Tulane 13.50) vs. David Fox (Denver 12.66)
Yannick Zuern (North Florida 13.04) vs. Julian Childers (Illinois 12.98)
Robert Herrera (East Tennesse State 13.32) vs. Alfredo Perez (Florida 13.63)
Julius Tverijonas (George Washington 12.96) vs. Jose Salazar (Arkansas 13.77)
Matt Mendez (Ohio State 12.74) vs. Maksim Kan (Wake Forest 13.18)
[9-16] John Mee (Texas 13.48) vs. [17-32] Gustav Hansson (Ole Miss 13.86)
[17-32] Sam Matheson (Liberty 12.54) vs. Jefta Kecic (Western Michigan 12.75)
Leopold Gomez Inslinger (UW-Green Bay 12.77) vs. Felix Rauch (Memphis 12.87)

Day 1 Pre-Q Results

Day 1 of the All Americans is in the books with 6 of the top 8 seeds picking up wins on the the opening day of the pre-qualies.

Top 8 Seeds

1. Rogerio Ribeiro (East Tennessee State) - WON
2. Christian Cargill (William & Mary) - WON
3. Tito Moreiras (UTSA) - WON
4. Gabor Csonka (LSU) - WON
5. Michael Riechmann (Texas) - WON
6. Jonny Rigby (Southern Illinois) - WON
7. Maik Steiner (Western Michigan) - LOST
8. Luis Valero (Tennessee) - LOST

All American Pre-Qualie Draw Is Out

The massive 266 person pre-qualifying draw for the All Americans is out as play officially gets underway on Saturday morning in Tulsa.

There are 20 guys that will meet in the Round of 512 so the road for those guys will be that much harder with each needing to win 5 times to reach the qualifying draw while the other 246 guys will only need to win 4 times to qualify.

Here are the top 8 seeds for the pre-q draw:

1. Rogerio Ribeiro (East Tennessee State)
2. Christian Cargill (William & Mary)
3. Tito Moreiras (UTSA)
4. Gabor Csonka (LSU)
5. Michael Riechmann (Texas)
6. Jonny Rigby (Southern Illinois)
7. Maik Steiner (Western Michigan)
8. Luis Valero (Tennessee)