Special to The Eagle
TENNIS
Aggies to compete at ITA All-American: Eight members of the Texas A&M men's tennis team will compete at the 2009 D'Novo/ITA Men's All-American Championships hosted by Tulsa beginning Saturday at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.
A&M junior All-American Austin Krajicek, ranked No. 30 nationally, will compete in the main singles draw which starts Oct. 8. He and junior Alexey Grigorov also will compete part in the main draw of doubles.
A&M junior transfer Jeff Dadamo and Grigorov will compete in the qualifying singles draw beginning Monday, while five other Aggies are scheduled to participate in prequalifying singles, including senior Marcus Lunt, junior Kayvon Karimi, sophomore Colin Hoover, sophomore John Lewis and freshman Alberto Bautista. Dadamo and Lunt are also entered in the qualifying doubles draw.
"We were able to watch and analyze our players last weekend at the Baylor Intercollegiate Invitational," A&M head coach Steve Denton said. "We saw some areas we needed to address with each individual player and made some tactical adjustments in preparation for this week's ITA All-American. We also spent a lot of time working on our doubles and finding the right combinations. Overall, coach [Bob] McKinley and I are pleased with the progress our returning players and newcomers have shown thus far in the fall."
Krajicek and Alexis Klegou will also play in the Swanston ATP Tour Challenger set for Oct. 4-12 at the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club in Sacramento, Calif. Krajicek and Klegou are both competing as amateurs at the USTA Pro Circuit event.
Notice about comments:
Theeagle.com is pleased to offer readers the ability to comment on stories. We expect our readers to engage in lively, yet civil discourse. theeagle.com cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted in the comments area. Responsibility for the statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not theeagle.com. If you find a comment that is objectionable, please click "report abuse" and we will review it for possible removal. Please be reminded, however, that in accordance with our Terms of Use and federal law, we are under no obligation to remove any third party comments posted on our website. Full terms and conditions can be read here.
Aggiesports.com is proud to offer our users enhanced commenting features. You can now build user-to-user connections, follow friends’ recent posts, add an avatar that fits your personality and more. If you have posted here before you’ll need to sign up again, and if you’ve never posted start now by signing up! If you've already registered for the new comments on www.theeagle.com then just use your Eagle username to log in and start commenting.