Wake Forest Athletics
Deacs Set For NCAA Individual Championships
5/24/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
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By Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeMTennis)
TULSA, Okla. -- Three members of the Wake Forest men's tennis team are set to compete in the NCAA Individual Championships, which are slated to begin on Wednesday at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla.
Skander Mansouri and Petros Chrysochos will compete in the 64-player NCAA Singles Championships, while Mansouri and Christian Seraphim will play together in the 32-team doubles tournament that is scheduled to begin on Thursday.
Chrysochos will start play Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET and Mansouri will follow at 1:30 p.m. ET. Times for the first round of the doubles tournament will be announced on Wednesday.
Ranked 27th nationally, Chrysochos will take on No. 12-ranked and No. 9-16-seeded Julian Lenz of Baylor. The ACC Freshman of the Year and ITA Carolina Region Rookie of the Year, Chrysochos is 23-4 this season with a 20-2 ledger at the second spot in the lineup. The mid-year addition to Wake Forest is also 10-1 against ranked competition.
Lenz, a three-time singles All-American, is 26-5 in singles this season. The senior went 19-3 for the Bears at the top flight in dual-match action and is 15-5 against ranked opponents. The winner of the Chrysochos-Lenz contest will meet either Shawn Hadavi of Columbia or Alfredo Perez of Florida in the second round.
The No. 13-ranked Mansouri enters the singles draw as a No. 9-16 seed, which guarantees All-American status for the sophomore. He will take on 18th-ranked Arthur Rinderknech of Texas A&M. A First Team All-ACC selection and team MVP, Mansouri is 31-10 in 2015-16. He went 14-7 at the No. 1 spot in dual-match singles and is 15-9 against ranked opponents.
Rinderknech will go into the match with a 26-12 singles record, including 11-10 at the No. 1 spot and a 14-10 mark against ranked foes. The winner of the first-round match will face either Hugo Di Feo of Ohio State Alex Rybakov of TCU in the round of 32.
In doubles, the 13th-ranked duo of Mansouri and Seraphim will take on No. 19 Giammarco Micolani and Mike Redlicki of Arkansas on Thursday.
The Deacons' top pairing is 22-14 this season with 10 wins over ranked tandems. They went 17-9 at the No. 1 position. Micolani and Redlicki go into the match 17-9 in 2015-16 with six spring wins over ranked teams. The winner of the doubles match between the Deacs and Razorbacks will face either Boris Arias and Jordan Daigle of LSU or Shawn Hadavi and Richard Pham of Columbia.
Mansouri and Seraphim will make second appearance in the NCAA Doubles Tournament. The pairing reached the second round in 2015 in Waco, Texas, defeating Alabama's Becker O'Shaughnessey and Korey Lovett before falling in three sets to Lenz and Diego Galeano of host Baylor.
The Demon Deacons recently wrapped up their winningest season in program history with a loss to No. 11 Oklahoma in the NCAA Tournament round of 16 in Tulsa.
