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Sept. 21, 2007
WACO, Texas - Baylor men's tennis players were perfect in first-round of the eighth annual H.E.B. Baylor Invitational at the Baylor Tennis Center on Friday. Competing in the Green (A) draw, all six singles players were victorious and all three doubles tandems triumphed as well.
Second round action produced similar results in singles with five advancing to the round of 16. However, all three doubles tandems fell in round of 16 action.
Doubles teams saw the first action of the day beginning at 8:15 a.m. In the round of 32, Attila Bucko and Jordan Rux downed TCU's Casey Powers and Adrian Simon, 8-1. Matt Brown and Denes Lukacs made quick work of Eduardo Salas and Roman Stoisayljevic of New Mexico State 8-3. Third-seeded David Galic and Dominik Mueller beat Texas A&M's Matt Bain and Jerry Makowski 8-4. All three doubles teams will play again today.
In singles play , Lukacs, Bucko and Brown all took the court in the first set of singles in the round of 64. The 10th-seeded Lukacs defeated Oklahoma's Rob McKenzie 6-2, 6-0, Bucko was victorious over Kreigler Brink of TCU, 2-6, 6-0, 6-1 and Brown beat Kentucky's Marcus Sunduh 6-2, 7-5.
Also in round of 64 action, Galic lost his first set to Boise State's Steve Robertson but bounced back to take the match with back-to-back 6-4, 6-1 wins. Rux, a freshman seeing his first collegiate action, won his first set 6-1 then sealed the victory in a 7-6 (3) tiebreak. Mueller, the tournament's No. 8 seed, triumphed over Texas Tech's Michael Breler, 7-6(8), 6-2 to complete first round action for the Bears.
Second round matches saw Brown, Bucko and Galic all defeating seeded players. Galic knocked off fifth-seeded Conor Pollock of Texas in straight sets while Brown posted a three-set win over 11th-seeded Luis Diaz Barriga of Texas. Bucko lost the first set of his match versus 14th-seeded Jeremy Sonkin of Wisconsin but bounced back to win the next two to advance. Lukacs posted a straight sets win over Wisconsin's Luke Rassow-Kantor while Mueller made quick work of Lamar's Macief Bogusz. Freshman Jordan Rux suffered the Bears' lone singles loss of the day when he fell to 10th-seeded Nolan Polley of Wisconsin. All five Baylor winners will begin play at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday in round of 16 competition.
After singles play was completed the second round of doubles began. Oklahoma's Andrei Daescu/Rob McKenzie eliminated Bucko and Rux, 8-1 while the No .4 seed, Ralph Knupfer/Christoph Mueller (Rice) downed Brown and Lukacs 8-6. Baylor's third-seeded Galic and Mueller were upset by Texas' Luis Diaz Barriga/Milan Mihailovic 9-8(3).
Complete tournament action can be viewed at:
http://tennislink.usta.com/tournaments/schedule/search.aspx
Tournament id = 809678007.
Green (A) Singles
Round of 64
(10) Denes Lukacs (BU) def. Rob McKenzie (OU) 6-2, 6-0
Attila Bucko (BU) def. Kriegler Brink (TCU) 2-6, 6-0, 6-1
Matt Brown (BU) def. Marcus Sunduh (Kentucky) 6-2, 7-5
Jordan Rux (BU) vs. Nolan Polley (Wisconsin) 6-1, 7-6(3)
David Galic (BU) vs. Steve Robertson (Boise St.) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1
(8) Dominik Mueller vs. Michael Breler (TT) 7-6(8), 6-2
Round of 32
Denes Lukacs (BU) def. Luke Rassow-Kantor (Wisconsin) 6-4, 6-4
Attila Bucko (BU) def. (14) Jeremy Sonkin (Wisconsin) 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
Matt Brown (BU) def. (11) Luis Diaz Barriga (Texas) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3
(10) Matthias Wellerman (Ole Miss) def. Jordan Rux (BU) 6-3, 7-6(4)
David Galic (BU) def. (5) Conor Pollock (Texas) 7-6, 7-5
(8) Dominik Mueller def. Maciej Bogusz (Lamar) 6-0, 6-1
Green (A) Doubles
Round of 32
Brown/Lukacs (BU) def. Eduardo Salas/Roman Stoisavljevic (NMSU) 8-3
Bucko/Rux (BU) def. Casey Powers/Adrian Simon (TCU) 8-1
(3) Galic/Mueller (BU) def. Matt Bain/Jerry Makowski (TAMU) 8-4
Round of 16
(4) Ralph Knupfer/Christoph Mueller (Rice) def. Brown/Lukacs (BU) 8-6
Andrei Daescu/Rob McKenzie (OU) def. Bucko/Rux (BU) 8-1
Luis Diaz Barriga/Milan Mihailovic (UT) def. (3) Galic/Mueller (BU) 9-8(3)
Saturday Baylor Schedule
Round of 16
9:15 a.m. - Baylor Tennis Center
Lukacs vs. (6) Moritz Baumann (Wisconsin)
Bucko vs. Bram Ten Berge (Ole Miss)
Matt Brown vs. Adrian Simon (TCU)
Galic vs. (16) Matthias Wellerman (Ole Miss)
(8) Mueller vs. Zach Nicholas (TCU)
