Wake Forest Athletics
Loewenthal Begins Singles Championship Quest Wednesday
5/21/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
May 21, 2002
COLLEGE STATION, TX -
PDF File of Loewenthal's updated bio and Wake Forest's stats/results
Wake Forest's number one men's tennis player, David Loewenthal, will begin competition Wednesday in the NCAA Men's Tennis Singles Championship at Texas A&M University. The 41st-ranked All-ACC sophomore singles player from Franklin Lakes, NJ will square off against #114 Divan Coetzee from New Mexico in the first round of the 64-player field. Match time is to be announced later. The winner will then advance to the second round on Thursday to face the winner of the first round matchup between #62 Steve Berke from Yale and top-ranked and top-seeded Matias Boeker from Georgia.
Loewenthal owns a singles record of 30-13 this season. Ranked as high as 24th in singles and 27th in doubles, he is tied for second place on the school's single-season victory list with 30 singles wins. Posting a 15-6 dual singles record in the spring, all at the No. 1 flight, Loewenthal jumped out to a seven match winning streak in singles play in the spring, including wins over #50 Saber Kadiri from Virginia Tech and #78 Aleksey Zharinov from Minnesota. He led the Demon Deacons to a 6-1 win over #50 Florida State with a singles victory over #49 Xavier Luscan in straight sets. He also took out #34 Marcio Petrone from North Carolina in straight sets of the ACC Championship semifinal match. A finalist at Regional Championships this past fall, Loewenthal qualified for the National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, where he advanced to the quarterfinals, upsetting #81 Xavier Luscan from Florida State, #39 Florian Marquardt from Virginia Commonwealth, #19 Tiago Ruffoni from Auburn and #50 Robert Gutsafsson from Middle Tennessee along the way.
Wake Forest finished the season 17-6 overall and 6-2 in the ACC. The Demon Deacons were selected to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year and lost in the first round to fifth-ranked and second-seeded Tennessee, in Knoxville. Wake Forest head coach Jeff Zinn returns five of six starters next season.
For more information about the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships, including match times, full brackets, live scoring, results and ticket information go to ncaachampionships.com or aggieathletics.com.
