Wake Forest Athletics
Men's Tennis Earns At-Large Bid To NCAA Championship
4/30/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
April 30, 2003
The 28th-ranked Wake Forest men's tennis earned an at-large bid to the 64-team NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship Wednesday afternoon. The Demon Deacons (13-8) will face No. 46 Brown (18-3) in the first round Saturday, May 10 at Duke University's Ambler Tennis Stadium in Durham, N.C., a regional four-team site hosted by ninth-ranked and eighth-seeded Duke. The match will begin as soon as the 9:00 a.m. Duke versus High Point match is over.
It will be a rematch for Brown and Wake Forest, as the then 55th-ranked Bears upset the then-ranked No. 17 Deacs, 4-3, Feb. 22 in Providence, R.I. That evened the all-time series between the two schools at 1-1, following Wake Forest's 7-0 shutout over Brown on March 26, 2002 in Winston-Salem.
The winner will advance to the second round, Sunday, May 11 at 1:30 p.m., to meet the winner of the Duke versus High Point first round matchup. The winner of Sunday's match will advance to the Round of 16 in Athens, Ga. Wake Forest is 16-0 all time against the Panthers and 8-33 versus the Blue Devils. The last time the Demon Deacons beat Duke was in 1981.
This makes the fourth appearance in the NCAA Tournament for the Wake Forest men's tennis team and the third straight. The Demon Deacons have never advanced past the first round.
Six ACC teams made the NCAA Tournament field. Wake Forest joins Duke, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and North Carolina in the big dance.
David Loewenthal, a junior from Franklin Lakes, N.J., will find out if he gets picked for the NCAA Singles Championship tomorrow afternoon. The singles and doubles brackets will be posted on ncaasports.com after 6:00 p.m. Loewenthal is the nation's 56th-ranked singles player currently.
For more information on the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship, including the complete bracket, go to ncaasports.com.
