No. 19 Deacs Travel to ITA Kick-Off Weekend

Jan. 24, 2014

Deacons to Compete in ITA Kick-Off Weekend

No. 19 Wake Forest will travel to Vanderbilt for the ITA Kick-Off Weekend, opening against No. 23 LSU on Saturday at 3 p.m. EST. Live scoring for the match will be available on vucommodores.com.
The ITA Kick-Off Weekend serves as the qualifying tournament for the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. Competition will take place at 15 different sites around the country this weekend.
The winner of the Wake Forest-LSU match will face the winner of the match between No. 15 Vanderbilt and No. 20 Texas on Sunday for a spot in the National Team Indoor Championships. The losers of the opening day matches will play a consolation match Sunday.
Wake Forest is looking to qualify for the National Team Indoor Championships for the first time in program history.
The Vanderbilt site is arguably the most difficult in the country and is the only one that has all four teams ranked in the Top 25.

Wake Forest Off to a Perfect Start

Wake Forest is off to a 4-0 start for the second season in a row. The Demon Deacons took down Brown 9-0 and No. 66 ETSU 5-3 last weekend.
The matches this weekend will be the first time that the Demon Deacons use the conventional format of three doubles and six singles matches this season. By agreement of the coaches, Wake Forest's first four dual matches have included additional singles and doubles matches to give more players a chance to play in the lineup.
The Demon Deacons' two opponents this weekend will be their highest-ranked foes so far this season.

In the Rankings

Wake Forest remained at No. 19 in the ITA rankings this week.
No new individual rankings have come out since the preseason, meaning that Wake Forest still has three ranked singles players in No. 20 Romain Bogaerts, No. 59 Adam Lee and No. 93 Anthony Delcore.
Wake Forest's top doubles team of Lee and Pedro Dumont is ranked 30th nationally.
LSU features one ranked singles player, No. 72 Chris Simpson, and two ranked doubles teams, No. 46 Tam Trinh and Eric Perez and No. 60 Simpson and Boris Arias.

Top Storylines

Adam Lee, Pedro Dumont and Maksim Kan all hold perfect 4-0 dual match singles records, while Dumont and Lee are 4-0 at No. 1 doubles.
Dating back to the fall, Kan has won 11 of his last 12 matches.
With two singles wins this weekend, Lee would tie Mike Murray (2000-03) for eighth place in program history with 95 career singles victories.
A victory against the 23rd-ranked Tigers on Saturday would give Wake Forest its highest-ranked non-conference win since beating No. 23 Rice in 2010.

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