Oct. 22, 2010
Singles - Main Draw - Round of 64 Doubles - Main Draw - Round of 16
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Purdue netters Krisztian Krocsko and Szymon Tatarczyk are the sole survivors on Friday at the 2010 USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Indoor Championships in Lexington, Ky.
Sophomore Krocsko took out his first-round opponent, David Henry of Memphis, 6-2, 6-4 in his first regional appearance. The Budapest, Hungary, native extends his fall tally to 9-3 on a season in which Krocsko made a 4-1 match run at the All-American Championships defeating ITA preseason ranked No. 109 Corrado Delg' Incerti Tocci of Virginia Tech. The Boilermaker faces the tournament's No. 1-seeded and ITA top-ranked player J.P. Smith (Tennessee) in the Round of 32 on Saturday.
Tatarczyk (Wodzislaw, Poland) had a tough time with Tennessee's Ed Jones but made his way through 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. The Purdue freshman takes on 10th-seeded (No. 93) Grega Teraz of East Tennessee State in the next round.
Main draw qualifier Jan-Frans Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) had a great start against Vanderbilt's Bryant Salcedo taking his first set 7-5 on Friday. Salcedo rallied in the third, and the junior Boilermaker could not reciprocate, falling 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Engelbrecht qualified for the main draw as one of 11 players to advance, eliminating Andre Monroy (BSU) and Nik Schroeder (EKU) to get there.
Engelbrecht paired with fellow junior Matt Manasse as main draw qualifiers, taking on top-seeded (No. 8) doubles team Eric Quigley and Brad Cox from Kentucky. The Old Gold and Black duo were defeated 8-2, but saw two sold victories over Alexandre Brym and Dave Thomas (Ball State) and Alex Das and Hugo Klientovsky (Eastern Kentucky) to claim their main draw berth.
Senior Eric Ramos and Krocsko survived their first round of doubles play, removing Dayton's Andrew Hanley and Benton Benalcazar 8-2. They moved on to face doubles team Simon Childs and Andrew Carter of Louisville and stayed tight with the pair, but were eliminated 9-8 (4).
This prominent tournament is one of 12 ITA regional tournaments happening over the weekend. Purdue contends with players from Dayton, Eastern Kentucky, Lipscomb, Louisville, Kentucky, UT-Chattanooga, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, IUPUI, Tennessee Tech, East Tennessee State, Butler, Memphis, Ball State, Wright State and Xavier.
The nation's top collegiate player, J.P. Smith of Tennessee, is the tournament's No. 1 seed. The second seed was awarded to Kentucky's Eric Quigley (No. 8) followed by Austen Childs of Louisville (No. 10) in the third spot. Six other preseason-ranked competitors (No. 20 Ryan Lipman - Vanderbilt, No. 21 Rhyne Williams - Tennessee, No. 32 Alex Musialek - Kentucky, No. 63 Simon Childs - Louisville, No. 83 Tennys Sandgren - Tennessee and No. 93 Grega Teraz - ETSU) round out the top of the lineup as well as four ranked doubles teams (No. 8 Quigley/Brad Cox - Kentucky, No. 45 Childs/Viktor Maksimcuk - Louisville, No. 47 Jordan Smith/David Henry - Memphis and No. 48 Adam Baker/Lipman - Vanderbilt).
The event features a 44-player singles qualifying round out of which 11 players have advanced to the 64-player singles main draw. This entirely indoor tournament also entails a doubles qualifying draw with 6 teams having advanced to the main event. The two locations for match play are the Hilary J. Boone Tennis Complex on the University of Kentucky campus and the Lexington Tennis Club.
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USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional - Agate
Oct. 22, 2010
Lexington, Ky. - Hilary J. Boone Tennis Center
Singles - Main Draw - Round of 64
Krisztian Krocsko (Purdue) def. David Henry (UM) 6-2, 6-4
Szymon Tatarczyk (Purdue) def. Ed Jones (UT) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
Adam Baker (VU) def. Aaron Dujovne (Purdue) 6-2, 6-4
Bryant Salcedo (VU) def. Jan-Frans Engelbrecht - Qualifier (Purdue) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
Alejandro Calligari (UL) def. Mark Kovacs (Purdue) 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (1)
Alex Zotov (VU) def. Eric Ramos (PU) default
Doubles - Main Draw - Round of 32
No. 8 (1) Eric Quigley/Brad Cox (UK) def. J.F. Engelbrecht/Matt Manasse - Qualifier (Purdue) 8-2
Krisztian Krocsko/Eric Ramos (Purdue) def. Andrew Hanley/Benton Benalcazar (DAY) 8-2
David O'Hare/Joe Salisbury (UM) def. (5-8) Kovacs/Dujovne (Purdue) 8-6
Doubles - Main Draw - Round of 16
(5-8) Simon Childs/Andrew Carter (UL) def. Krisztian Krocsko/Eric Ramos (Purdue) 9-8 (4)
Schedule of Play - Oct. 23
Singles - Main Draw - Round of 32
No. 1 (1) JP Smith (UT) vs. Krisztian Krocsko (Purdue) at 1:30 p.m. - LTC
No. 93 (10) Grega Teraz (ETSU) vs. Szymon Tatarczyk (Purdue) at 1:30 p.m. - LTC