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 26th,
through Sunday, September 28th. 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.
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).