Oct. 18, 2007
WACO, Texas - Baylor's men's tennis program will send six student-athletes to compete in the ITA South Central Regional Championships Oct. 20-23 (Sat.-Tue.) at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus.
Representing the Bears in the competition will be Matt Brown, Attila Bucko, David Galic, Denes Lukacs, Dominik Mueller and Jordan Rux. All six players will participate in singles while doubles teams will consist of Galic and Lukacs, Bucko and Mueller and Brown and Rux.
The tournament consists of an 84-player main singles draw, a main doubles draw and a consolation singles draw. Doubles play will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday followed by singles. The singles finalists and doubles champions from each regional earn berths into the November 1-4 ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships hosted by The Ohio State University at the Racquet Club of Columbus.
Saturday Action
Doubles
Round of 32
8:30 a.m. - Bucko/Mueller vs. Daniel Bello/Dmitry Minkin (UTA)
9:30 a.m. - Brown/Rux vs. Chris Chirico/Conor Pollack (TAMU)
10 a.m. - (2) Galic/Lukacs vs. Jorge Delgado/Murillo Viotto (ULL)
Singles
Round 128
12:30 p.m. - Bucko vs. Roman Ogarkov (UTA)
Round of 64
1:30 p.m. - Brown vs. Joe Hattrup (Texas Tech)
1:30 p.m. - Galic vs. Jon Wiegand (Texas)
2:30 p.m. - Rux vs. Hubert Chodkiewicz (Texas)
2:30 p.m. - Mueller vs. Jan Cingel (TAMUCC)
3:30 p.m. - Darren Walsh (SMU)
Tournament website:
http://tennislink.usta.com/tournaments/TournamentHome/Tournament.aspx?T=65939
Baylor results will be posted at www.baylorbears.com at the end of each day's play.
The Bears are coming off impressive showings in both the Charles Fluitt Invitational and the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational (RCCI). Galic, a junior from Frankston, Australia and currently unranked nationally, downed 75th-ranked Claudio Christen of Arizona in straight sets to advance to the RCCI quarterfinals where he lost to eventual champion No. 96 Kellen Damico of Texas.
Denes Lukacs, ranked No. 78, is Baylor's hottest player during the fall season, registering a 10-2 mark overall and a 6-2 record over ranked opponents. The sophomore from Eger, Hungary, has won eight of his last nine matches and four straight where he recently claim the singles championship of the Charles Fluitt Invitational in Lexington, Ky. En route to the title, he downed two top-50 players in straight sets, No. 38 Clancy Shields (Boise State) and No. 44 Bruno Agostinelli (Kentucky). During the fall he also owns a win over ninth-ranked Ryan Rowe of Illinois.
Also in the Fluitt Invitational, three of Baylor's four participants advanced to the round of 16 (Brown, Mueller, Lukacs) while Lukacs and Mueller were semifinalists.
