Men's Tennis Prepares For Minnesota Invitational
10/9/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Oct. 9, 2002
EAST LANSING, Mich. -
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Michigan State Spartans Head coach: Gene OrlandoCareer (15th Season): 155-198MSU (12th): 124-158.Assistant Coach: Al Polonyi(First Season)
This Week For The SpartansMinnesota Invitational. Oct. 11-13.All Day. Minneapolis, Minn.
Teams Participating: Boston College,Marquette, Michigan State, Minnesota,Nebraska, Wisconsin.
ITA ALL-AMERICAN REVIEW: Chris Mitchell and Andrew Formanczyk represented Michigan State at the ITA All-American prequalifying tournament in Chattanooga which got underway Friday, Oct. 4. While the rain suspended many of the scheduled matches, Mitchell and Formanczyk finished 1-1 each in singles and 0-1 in doubles. Mitchell defeated Lipscomb's Dustin Overbeck in the first round, 7-6(5), 6-1, before falling to Duke's Ludovic Walter, 6-2, 6-3, in the round of 128. Formanczyk also gave up only seven games in his first round match, cruising past North Carolina's Brad Pomeroy, 6-1, 7-6(5), but dropped his second round match to Furman's James Cameron, 6-2, 6-4. After receiving a bye in the first round, the duo teamed up in doubles Sunday morning, only to fall to Louisiana-Lafayette's Jakub Ilowski and Michael Tarkowski, 8-6.
TWIN CITIES TRIP NUMBER ONE: The Spartans will travel to Minneapolis, Minn., Friday, Oct. 11, for the Minnesota Invitational along with five other teams. This will mark the first out of three trips MSU will make this season to the Twin Cities. The Golden Gophers will be hosting the Big Ten Indoor Championships in November as well as the MSU-UM dual match March 31.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE: Head coach Gene Orlando will get a good look at how his team matches up with some of the top ranked teams in the nation this weekend. State is scheduled to play Wisconsin in the first match of the tournament at 9 a.m. Friday morning and then take on Marquette in singles matches at 4 p.m.
