Wake Forest Athletics
Pairings Set For ACC Tennis Championships This Weekend
4/15/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
April 15, 2003
The brackets are set for the ACC Tennis Championships this weekend at the Millbrook Exchange Tennis Center in Raleigh, N.C., and the Demon Deacons are ready to make their runs at the crown.
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The 25th-ranked men's team finished fourth in the league with a 5-3 record and enters the tournament as the four seed, where they will meet the five seed, No. 37 Virginia, at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, April 18 in the first quarterfinal. The Cavaliers won the regular season matchup, 4-3 on March 22 in Winston-Salem.
The women's squad finished eighth in the conference with a 1-7 mark and will fill the eight seed at the tournament, which pits them against the seven seed, No. 73 Maryland, at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 17. It will be a rematch of the regular season finale for both teams played last Sunday in College Park, Md., and won by the Terrapins 4-3. Thursday's winner will advance to the quarterfinals to play the two seed, No. 17 Clemson, at noon on Friday.
Wake Forest men's tennis finished in the top four of the ACC for the third straight year this season. Only the second time in the program's history that feat has been accomplished, it is the first time since 1977 that the Demon Deacon men have finished in the top four of the ACC three consecutive seasons.
For more information about the ACC Tennis Championships, including brackets, lineups and directions to the Millbrook Exchange Tennis Center go to theacc.com.
The all-conference teams, along with ACC player, rookie and coach of the year, for the both the men and the women will be announced at the ACC Tennis Championship Banquet Thursday evening. Until then, here are some interesting notes:
...Senior David Bere went 5-0 at No. 3 singles this season against conference opponents
...The all-time winningest singles player in school history, Bere shattered Wake Forest's 15-year-old record for career singles victories (89) and currently has 104 career singles wins
...Senior Trent Brendon led the team with a 7-1 ACC singles record this season
...Brendon broke the school's career doubles wins record last week and is now Wake Forest's all-time winningest doubles player with 90 career wins
...Brendon, who has been nationally ranked in doubles for the past two seasons, leads the team with 24 doubles wins this year
...Brendon has accumulated 31 singles victories this year, placing him in a tie for third on the school season record list and second place on the career singles wins list
...Brendon leads the team with 14 dual singles wins this year
...Junior David Loewenthal also has won 31 singles matches this year and is tied for third on the school season record list
...Loewenthal has been nationally ranked in singles and doubles for the past two seasons
...Loewenthal was named the ACC Player of the Week on Feb. 10 after leading Deacons to wins over No. 58 William & Mary and No. 50 Michigan with victories in singles and doubles both days
... Brett Ross, the only freshman in the WFU starting lineup, has made an immediate impact for the Deacs, winning 29 singles matches and 21 in doubles play
...Ross went 5-2 against ACC foes in singles play and 6-2 in doubles
...Senior Mike Murray has 27 singles wins going into the ACC Championships
...Murray has climbed to third on the school's career singles wins list with 94 victories
...Murray has a 6-2 ACC singles record this year, including a 4-0 mark at the No. 5 slot
...Murray has tallied 20 doubles wins this year and is now ranked third on the school's career doubles victories list with 80 wins
...Despite a slow start this fall, Derrick Spice has put together 19 doubles victories this year and 18 singles wins
...Senior Brian Murphy, who has only seen action in three dual matches during his four years at Wake Forest, came up huge for the Demon Deacons, who were playing without top player David Loewenthal, March 30 at No. 14 Georgia Tech when he sealed the upset 4-3 victory for WFU with a straight set singles win at No. 6
...Junior Andrew Simpson, who started the spring as Murray's partner at No. 3 doubles before suffering a broken bone in his foot three matches into the season and forcing him to miss the next two months of action, returned last week and is now playing No. 3 doubles with Loewenthal
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