From Emory University Athletics

The Emory University men's tennis team will open its 2014-15 season this weekend, as the team hosts the USTA/ ITA South Region Championship Tournament from Friday, September 26^th, through Sunday, September 28^th.  The event will feature top players from Division III schools in the region. The singles and doubles champions from this weekend's tournament advance to the Oct. 9-12 Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Small College Championships in Sumter, South Carolina. 

There will be four sites utilized throughout this weekend's action.  

Emory has the top two and three of the top-eight seeds in the Main Singles Draw, with

seniors Alex Ruderman (Basking Ridge, NJ) and Eric Halpern (Rye Brook, NY) holding down the Nos. 1 & 2 seeds, respectively.  Halpern enters this year's event as the defending champ after topping teammate Rafe Mosetick (Hinsdale, IL) a year ago.  Mosetick heads into the weekend as the No. 4 singles seed.

Emory will have six doubles teams competing in the A Draw of the event with Ruderman and senior Ian Wagner (Columbus, OH) seeded No. 1.  The pair teamed last year to post an overall record of 11-8 in doubles.

Besides Emory, other schools with competing players include: Averett, Centre, Sewanee, North Carolina Wesleyan, Birmingham-Southern, Methodist, Guilford, Oglethorpe, Emory & Henry, Rhodes, Millsaps, Berry and Mississippi College, Guilford and Piedmont.

Main Singles Draw

B and C Singles Draw

Main Doubles Draw

B Doubles Draw

Consolation Bracket
(all draws listed were of Sept. 25 at 4:20 pm) 

The ITA National Small College Championships began in 1986 and annually crowns men's and women's singles and doubles national champions in each of the ITA's four small college divisions (NCAA Divisions II and III, NAIA and Junior/Community College). These championships are the only national tournaments for singles and doubles at the NCAA Division II and NAIA level, and the only tournaments that combine the levels of Junior/Community Colleges (NJCAA Divisions I-III and the California schools). Participants are determined through these Wilson/ITA Regional Championships, which serve as qualifying tournaments. The national champions from each division square off in the "Super Bowl" of Small College Tennis to determine the overall ITA National Small College Champions (who then earn berths into the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, a Division I event, in November).