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William's Mens Tennis: ITA New England Region Championships - October 01, 2007
Another exciting day of tennis took place today at Torrence M. Hunt '44 Tournament Courts as the remaining players vied for the ITA New England Region Championships.
In the singles bracket, the number one seed, Zack Lerner of Amherst won his round of 16 match 6-4,6-1 over Andrew Peters of Middlebury. Lerner went on to defeat Jeremy Weinberger ’10 of Williams in the quarterfinals, 6-2,6-2. Weinberger had reached the quarterfinals by upsetting the sixth seeded Andrew Lee of Middlebury, 6-3,6-4. Lerner will face another Eph in the semifinals in Dan Greenberg ’08. Greenberg, the number three seed, reached the semifinals by defeating Jamie Neely of Bowdoin in the round of 16, 6-0,6-1, and the eight seed, Bryan Brown of Colby, in the quarterfinals, 6-4,6-4.
On the other side of the draw, Filip Marinkovic of Middlebury upset the second seed, Garrett Gates of Bowdoin, in the round of 16 in a grueling three set match, 7-6(3),2-6,6-3. Marinkovic, however, dropped his quarterfinal match to the seventh seeded Spencer Feldman of Trinity in another three setter, 6-2,0-6,6-0. Feldman will face the four seed, Benjamin Stein of Bates, in the semifinal. Stein reached the semifinals beating Mike Mintz of Amherst, 6-2,1-6,6-2 in a close round of 16 match and beating the fifth seeded Andrew Thomson of Middlebury, 6-2,6-0 in the quarterfinals. Thomson had defeated Karol Furmaga ’09 of Williams in the round of 16, 6-2,6-0, to get to the quarterfinals. The semifinals and finals matches will take place tomorrow.
Lerner and his doubles partner Tal Avrahami, the number one seeded pair from Amherst, were upset in their quarterfinals match by Nick Lebedoff ’10 and Gary Simonette ’08 of rival Williams, by the close score of 9-7. Lebedoff and Simonette, however, were on the other side of a 9-7 score, losing their next match to the second seeded duo of Marinkovic and Thomson of Middlebury. After upsetting the second seeded pair of Greenberg and Bret Thacher ’09 of Williams yesterday, Eliot Jia and Peters of Middlebury lost their quarterfinals match to Gates and Stephen Sullivan of Bowdoin, 8-4. Gates and Sullivan dropped their semifinal match to Stein and Amrit Rupasinghe, 8-6. Stein and Rupasinghe will face off with Marinkovic and Thomson in tomorrow’s final.
The Ephs managed to place a semifinalist in both the doubles and singles draw. Dan Greenberg ‘08 has a tough semifinal match tomorrow with the number one seed, the Lord Jeffs’ Zack Lerner. Nick Lebedoff ’10 and Gary Simonette ’08 managed to upset Lerner and Avrahami, before losing a tough 9-7 match in the semifinals to Marinkovic and Thomson of Middlebury. Jeremy Weinberger also made a good run in the singles tournament before losing to Lerner in the quarterfinals, 6-2,6-2.
Play will continue tomorrow at 9:00 am at the Torrence M. Hunt '44 Tournament Courts. |
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