Devvarman and Huey Only Seeded Doubles Team in Semis at All-American; Johansson Wins Ninth Straight in Women's A-A
Virginia's Somdev Devvarman and Treat Huey, the top seeded doubles team, lost a grand total of two games in two matches today to reach the semifinals at the Polo All-American. In the second round, the Cavalier seniors shut out Jack Baker and Marek Sramek of South Alabama; in the quarterfinals the TCU tandem of Kriegler Bring and Cosmin Cotet managed two games from the 2007 NCAA semifinalists.
By the time the quarterfinals began at 3:30 this afternoon, Devvarman and Huey were the only seeds remaining. The 2,3 and 4 seeded teams lost in the first round Thursday and the three surviving No. 5 seeds lost in the second round. Christian Rojmar and Bojan Szumanski of Texas Tech defeated one of the No. 5 seeds, Drew Eberly and Justin Kronauge of Ohio State 8-4, then proceeded to disappoint the Tulsa tennis fans by edging past Arnau Brugues and Ricardo Soriano 9-7. But the Golden Hurricane supporters still have a rooting interest in tomorrow's semifinals as the wild card team of Andy Connelly and Ross Cunningham, in their first season playing together, advanced with two 9-7 wins. Connelly and Cunningham took out qualifiers Nick Cavaday and Jay Weinacker of NC State in the second round and Travis Helgeson and Nate Schnugg of Georgia in the quarterfinals. The hometown favorites will face Devvarman and Huey in one semifinal, and this year for the first time, it will be best of three sets in the semis and finals.
Rojmar and Szumanski's opponent in the semifinals will be the unseeded team of Jonas Berg and Erling Tveit of Ole Miss, who downed Sasha Ermakov and Ashwin Kumar of Harvard 8-4 in the quarterfinals.
The semifinals are complete in Pacific Palisades, the site of the women's All-American, and freshman Maya Johansson of Georgia Tech is having quite a college debut. She began prequalifying last Saturday and nine wins and a week later she will play unseeded Ani Mijacika of Clemson for a shot at one of college tennis's major championships. The only seeded player remaining is 2006 NCAA champion Susie Babos of Cal, who has yet to drop a set in her three wins. In today's quarterfinals Babos ended the run of prequalifier Aurelija Miseviciute of Arkansas, ending her win streak at eight. Miseviciute is starting her final season of college tennis after sitting out a year for an amateur eligibility violation discovered in the spring of 2006.
Babos takes on red-hot qualifier Amanda McDowell of Georgia Tech, who defeated Laura Vallverdu of Miami 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (9) in what had to be the match of the tournament to date.
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