Men's Tennis Hosts Baylor Intercollegiate
9/28/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Sept. 28, 2005
WACO, Texas - The Baylor men's tennis team will kick-off fall action this weekend hosting the fifth annual Baylor Invitational tournament at the Baylor Tennis Center. The tournament, originally scheduled for last weekend, was postponed due to the threat of hurricane Rita. Tournament action will begin at 8 a.m. Friday, Sept.30, and will finish up on Sunday, Oct. 2 with the semi final and final rounds.
The Bears will show a strong representation in the tournament with seven members of the men's tennis team participating in singles play. The tournament will feature two singles flights and one doubles flight. Matt Brown, Lars Poerschke, Vladimir Portnov and Jon Reckewey will compete in singles for the Bears.
Poerschke received a first round bye and will face the winner of the Anthony Portois (UTSA)/Thiago Dos Santos (Wichita State) match. Portnov will take on UTSA's Robin Fernandes in first round action while Reckewey takes the court against Diego Mattar of UT-Arlington and Brown, a freshman, will face TCU's Robert Gallman.
In doubles, Poerschke and Reckewey team up to play UTA's Mattar and Alberto Agis and Brown and Portnov tangle with Texas A&M-CC's Joey Farias and Erhart Asaad.
"We are excited about the great players, great teams and great coaches coming out," Baylor head coach Matt Knoll said. "We have had a great field every year and we are glad to have that again. It gives our players an opportunity to get better."
The tournament field includes players from 10 schools, four of which are Big 12 schools. Baylor, Texas, Nebraska, Wichita State, UT San Antonio, Texas A&M, Santa Clara, UT Arlington, TCU, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi will participate.
Baylor's Poerschke holds the number one seed in the tournament coming in at No. 25 in ITA preseason rankings. Texas' Michael Venus holds the number two seed and Raul Morant-Rivas of A&M Corpus Christi is seeded third. Other seeded Baylor players include Kokta, Portnov and Zgaga.
Results will be posted at www.baylorbears.com.
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