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Men’s Tennis Opens Spring Schedule At MVC Individual Championships
Release: Friday 01/20/2011 
by BradleyBraves.com
Courtesy:Missouri Valley Conference

PEORIA, Ill. -- The Bradley men's tennis team will open the 2011 spring schedule this week with the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Individual Championships Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa.  Action is scheduled to begin Friday at 8:30 a.m. with singles play at the Drake's Roger Knapp Tennis Center and continue Saturday at 9 a.m. with the first doubles rounds.  Complete results will be at the Missouri Valley Conference website (www.mvc-sports.com).

The championship features seven singles flights and three flights of doubles play.  Singles Flights 1-6 will feature two pools of three individuals with the top two in each pool advancing to their respective flights semifinals.  Flight 7 singles will feature an 11-person draw with a consolation bracket.  Doubles play will mirror Singles Flights 1-6 with two, three-team pools and the winners advancing to the semifinals in each flight. 

Sophomore Juan Cuadrado (Almeria, Spain/I.E.S. Alboran) finished off a strong fall, playing in the main draw of the USTA/ITA Central Regional Championship and will represent the Braves in Flight 1 singles where he is expected to face Illinois State's Timon Reichelt in his first match.

Freshman Hamish Weerasinghe (Edina, Minn./Edina) combined for 14 singles and doubles victores in the fall and is slated to play in Flight 2 singles.  Weerasinghe is scheduled to face Wichita State's Patrick Stiebringer in his opening round match.

In Flight 3 singles, sophomore Eric Nguyen (Ottawa, Ontario/John Rennie) will likely see Drake's Jean Erasmus in the first match of pool play.  Nguyen led the team with nine singles victories (9-3) in the fall and joined Cuadrado in the main draw of the USTA/ITA Central Regional Championship. 

Freshman Ashton Kalhorn (Colorado Springs, Colo./Coronado [Nev.]) will play in Flight 4 singles for Bradley and is scheduled to face David Cavalcanti of Wichita State in his first match.  Fellow freshman Arthur Romanet (Castelldefels, Spain/Schiller International School) is scheduled to play Illinois State's Tuomas Manner in his first match in Flight 5 singles.

Flight 6 singles will feature freshman Justin Abrams (Eagan, Minn./Eagan) who ranked second on the team with seven singles victories in the fall.  Abrams will likely square off with Illinois State's Mya Smith-Dennis in his opening match.  Freshman Devon Manning (Rock Island, Ill./Alleman) rounds out singles action for Bradley in Flight 7 singles and will face Orhan Spahic of Southern Illinois in his first match. 

In doubles play, Nguyen and Weerasinghe combined for a 7-2 fall record and will represent the Braves in Flight 1 doubles play.  The Flight 2 doubles bracket features the duo of Kalhorn and Abrams playing together for the first time and Flight 3 doubles also feature a first time pairing, with Cuadrado and Romanet competing together. 


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