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Men's Tennis Advances Three To Fourth Round Of Prequalifying At ITA All-American
Sunday, October 5, 2008 | Men's Tennis
Three members of the University of Florida Men's Tennis team advanced to the fourth round of the D'Novo ITA Men's All-American Prequalifying event Saturday at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla.
Sophomore Tyler Hochwalt (Scottsdale, Ariz.), junior Dan Cash (Oslo, Norway) and freshman Joey Burkhardt (St. Augustine, Fla.) all picked up a pair of straight-set wins to advance.
Hochwalt opened the day with a 7-6 (4), 6-2 showing over Denver's Benny Althaus before going on to defeat Tennessee's Jeremy Tweedt (6-2, 6-4). Cash took out Texas' Rook Schellenberg (6-4, 6-4) before posting a 6-2, 6-1 victory against Loyola Marymount's Ivan Lopez. Burkhardt defeated Martin Zimmerman of Denver (6-3, 6-2) and Kentucky's Alex Musialek (6-2, 6-4).
Gators Carlos Cueto (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) and Jeff Dadamo (Tampa, Fla.) will participate in the qualifying event for the D'Novo Men's All-American Championships from Monday, Oct. 6 through Wednesday, Oct. 8.
The D'Novo All-American Tennis Championships entails five days of qualifying events beginning with a 256-player pre-qualifying singles tournament, which takes place on Oct. 3-5. The pre-qualifying feeds into 128-player and 64-doubles team qualifying tournaments on Oct. 6-8, which then feeds into the 64-player, 32-doubles team main draws on Oct. 9-12.
The ITA All-America Championships are the first of three national championship events during the 2008-09 collegiate tennis season. The other two are the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in November and the season-ending NCAA Championships in May.
2008 D'Novo/ITA Men's All-American Championships Pre-Qualifying Event
Singles Main Draw Second Round
Tyler Hochwalt (UF) def. Benny Althaus (Denver), 7-6 (4), 6-2
Dan Cash (UF) def. Rook Schellenberg (Texas), 6-4, 6-4
Johnny Hamui (UF) def. Jim Brouleau (New Mexico State), 7-5, 6-3
Joey Burkhadrt (UF) def. Martin Zimmerman (Denver), 6-3, 6-2
Singles Main Draw Third Round
Tyler Hochwalt (UF) def. Jeremy Tweedt (Tennessee), 6-2, 6-4
Dan Cash (UF) def. Ivan Lopez (Loyola Marymount), 6-2, 6-1
Sebastian Gallego (Minn.) def. Johnny Hamui (UF), 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5)
Joey Burkhardt (UF) def. Alex Musialek (Kentucky), 6-2, 6-4
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