Day 1 of the USTA/ITA

Man what a great first day of the USTA/ITA Regional Tournament. Unfortunately its getting late and I had a very early day setting up for the tournament. It is certainly a blast for the guys to be playing at home (especially on a day when the temp hit 90) but it makes for a long day for the tournament director!

Let me say it today was a wonderful start to the season for the Whitties. We had 12 players in entered in the singles day and we managed to get 10 through to the round of 16. Nasko dropped a tough match to a seeded player in the first round but he had some moments of great tennis -- in fact he had several opportunities to take a 3-0 lead in the second and couldn't quite get it done. Transfer Dylan Bodet had a great day of tennis playing well and bombing some serves. He won his first match in straight sets before dropping a close three set match to a seeded player.

Some highlights from the day.

• Sophomores Will Huskey and Steve Roston showed great character and intensity taking down seeded players. Will knocked off the #7 seed 6-1, 4-6 10-7 and Steven knocked off the #13 seed and #2 player from Pacific 7-5, 6-4. Andrew La Cava (#2 seed) rolled through his first two matches 6-1, 6-0 and 6-0, 6-0
• The Freshman came up big today! James Rivers took down the #3 seed 6-1, 6-0 and Colton Malesovas defeated the #8 seed 6-3, 6-2
• Not to be outdone the Juniors also posted a strong day. Jeff Tolman #6 seed advanced with a pair of straight set wins (6-2, 7-6 and 6-0, 6-3). Sam Sadeghi (#13 seed) rolled to a pair of straight set wins and Matt Tesmond knocked off the #5 seed 10-8 in a 3rd set match breaker.
• The two seniors also advanced to the second day -- #1 seed Conor Holton Burke won 6-0, 6-0 and 6-2, 6-1 and Adriel Borshansky won 6-1, 6-2, and 6-3, 6-1

In doubles everything went our way. We have the #1 seeds Jeff Tolman/Andrew La Cava who only dropped 2 games in 2 matches. And #2 seeds Conor Holton-Burke/Matt Tesmond won 8-5 and 8-1.

Colton and Steven continued their strong play winning 2 matches including defeating the #3 seeds 8-4. Adriel and Will took down the #5 seeds in the 1st round 8-4 and then won their second match 8-3. Sam and James completed a wonderful evening taking down the #4 seeds 8-2 and then coming back from 1-4 down to win their second match 8-4. Great doubles for the Whitties -- we took down the #3, #4 and #5 seeds and placed 5 teams into the round of 8. Our only loss was Nasko and Dylan and dropped a close 8-6 match to the #7 seeds.

Tomorrow matches start at 10am with the main draw on the outdoor courts and the backdraw on the indoor courts.

Remember my friends fun and go nuts!

Singles Draw

Doubles Draw

PS Sorry about not returning text messages and stopping the twitter feed..my phone battery died!