Day 2 of the USTA/ITA's

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It is actually day 3 of the USTA/ITA but once again a late evening (more on this later) prevented me from doing a write up of yesterday's action. We entered day 2 of the tournament with 10 players into the round of 16. We had some tough match ups but managed to get 7 into the round of 8. Steven Roston had one of the best wins of the day defeating #4 seed and last year's single finalist Cody Ferguson. One of the more entertaining (and draining matches) was Adriel Borshansky vs James Rivers. These two had an amazing 2.5 hour match with James ended up getting the better of his teammate 7-5, 7-5. Other all Whitman match up's included Sam Sadeghi taking out Will Huskey and Steven Roston. Andrew La Cava took out freshman Colton Malesovas and Jeff Tolman took out James Rivers.

Match of the day was Conor vs George Fox transfer Shawn Aldrich. Its a blast playing the Fox guys they are always incredibly fired up. From our point of view its awesome to be playing such a team -- it makes us better team/players and prepares us when we play on the road. It took Conor 3 sets be he showed a lot of maturity winning 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.

We also had great luck in the doubles. We managed to get 5 of the final 8 spots. Unfortunately for Will/Adriel they had to play #1 seeds Jeff/Andrew in the round of 8. Will/Adriel lost 8-3 but played great and both had a wonderful tournament. Conor and Matt took down the #1 team from Linfield (and #7 seeds) 8-3. Meanwhile James/Sam and Colton/Steven took out the only remaining non-Whitman teams (both from George Fox). In the semi-finals Jeff/Andrew got the better of Sam/James and Matt/Conor defeated Colton/Steven.

Singles semifinals are just about to get underway -- Jeff vs Conor and Sam vs Andrew. I will try to provide a twitter stream.

Sorry for typos or grammar errors in this post -- with matches starting I don't have time to do a proof.