Oct. 8, 2008

TULSA, Okla. - Baylor's Jordan Rux fell one step short of a spot in the main draw of the D'Novo All-American Tennis Championships with his round of 32 loss in the qualifying draw on Wednesday at the University of Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

The 86th-ranked Rux, a sophomore from Kerrville, Texas, won the first set against Shuhei Uzawa of Ohio State in convincing fashion, 6-1. However, the sophomore from Japan rebounded and took the next two sets 6-4, 6-4 to move on to the tournament's main draw.

Juniors Denes Lukacs and Dominik Mueller have already been selected to play in the main draw and will begin competition on Thursday. Main draw brackets will be posted at the end of Wednesday's competition at: www.itatennis.com.

The D'Novo All-American Tennis Championships, held this year at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center, entails five days of qualifying events. It began with a 256-player pre-qualifying singles tournament (Oct. 3-5). The pre-qualifying fed into a 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.

ITA All-American Qualifying
Wednesday - Oct. 8
Round of 32
Shuhei Uzawa (Ohio State) def. #86 Jordan Rux (BU) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4