Top Two Doubles Seeds Fall Friday in Tulsa

©Colette Lewis 2006
Tulsa OK--

Both the 2006 NCAA champions and the 2005 All-American title winners were eliminated Friday afternoon at the Michael Case Tennis Center on the campus of the University of Tulsa.

Top seeds Kevin Anderson and Ryan Rowe, who claimed the NCCA title in Palo Alto in May, lost to the unseeded team of Diego Camacho and Ross Cunningham of Tulsa 8-6 in second round action. Marco Born and Andreas Siljestrom of Middle Tennessee State, the defending All-American doubles champions, also exited in the second round, dropping an 8-6 decision to James Cluskey and Ken Skupski of Louisiana State.

Anderson and Rowe are still alive in singles, perhaps dividing their focus, but Georgia's team of Luis Flores and John Isner, a five seed, suffered no such letdown. Both won their morning singles matches then took two doubles contests, defeating Matt Christian and Willy Lock of Northwestern in the second round 9-7, and Camacho and Cunningham in the quarterfinals 8-3. Their opponents in Saturday afternoon's semifinal will be the unseeded team Markus Dickhardt and Chris Groh of San Diego State.



The highest seeds remaining are the Michigan pairing of Brian Hung and Matko Maravic, who have won all three of their matches impressively. Hung and Maravic lost only two games in their first round win, and on Friday disposed of Tulsa's Arnau Brugues and Federico Soriano 8-3 in the second round, then defeated Somdev Devvarman and Treat Huey of Virginia by the same score in the quarterfinals. With none of the participants still in singles, the semifinal between Hung-Maravic and Cluskey-Skupski is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday.

For full draws, including singles and doubles consolation tournaments, see the ITA website.