2015 NCAA DIVISION I MEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS SINGLES AND DOUBLES SELECTIONS

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Kelsey Cermak Championships and Alliances, Operations 317/917-6222 2015 NCAA DIVISION I MEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS SINGLES AND DOUBLES SELECTIONS INDIANAPOLIS--The

1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Kelsey Cermak Championships and Alliances, Operations 317/ NCAA DIVISION I MEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS SINGLES AND DOUBLES SELECTIONS INDIANAPOLIS--The NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships. The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, Texas, following the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May Baylor University will serve as host. All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. Regular scoring and a 12-point tiebreaker at sixgames-all will be used for all matches. Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championships is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which studentathlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 completed singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection. Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championships is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered

2 Page No. 2 doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, eight must be completed, with four of the eight matches completed in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection. SINGLES Automatic qualifications (15), listed alphabetically by conference: American Athletic Dominik Koepfer Tulane ACC Noah Rubin Wake Forest Atlantic Sun Jack Findel-Hawkins North Florida Big Ten Leandro Toledo Minnesota Big 12 Axel Alvarez Llamas Oklahoma Conference USA Tomas Stillman UTSA Ivy Winston Lin Columbia Missouri Valley Alen Salibasic Drake Mountain West Samir Iftikhar New Mexico Pac-12 Mackenzie McDonald UCLA SEC Gonzales Austin Vanderbilt Southland Peter Nagy Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Summit League Henry Craig Denver Sun Belt Daniel Leitner South Alabama West Coast Uros Petronijevic San Diego At-large selections (49), listed alphabetically by last name: Nicolas Alvarez Adrien Berkowicz Andreas Bjerrehus Romain Bogaerts Nick Chappell Roberto Cid Chris Diaz Jeremy Efferding Christopher Eubanks Tom Fawcett Lloyd Glasspool Andre Goransson Farris Gosea Texas Virginia Tech Wake Forest TCU South Florida Ohio State Texas A&M Georgia Tech Stanford Texas California Illinois

3 Page No. 3 Yannick Hanfmann Raphael Hemmeler Mitchell Frank Andrew Harris Jared Hiltzik Søren Hess-Olesen Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Julian Lenz Mikelis Libietis Benjamin Lock Tony Lupieri Dennis Mkrtchian Quentin Monaghan Wayne Montgomery Cameron Norrie Denis Nguyen Lukas Ollert Tin Ostojic Nathan Pasha Roberto Quiroz Or Ram-Harel Dovydas Sakinis Ronnie Schneider Brayden Schnur Nik Scholtz Ryan Shane Sam Shropshire Austin Smith Felipe Soares Sebastian Stiefelmeyer Jakob Sude Jason Tahir Maxime Tchoutakian Mikael Torpegaard Jonny Wang Dane Webb Virginia Oklahoma Illinois Texas Virginia Baylor Tennessee Florida State Baylor UCLA Notre Dame Georgia TCU Harvard Auburn Wichita State Georgia Tulsa Dartmouth North Carolina North Carolina Ole Miss Virginia Northwestern Georgia Texas Tech Louisville Oklahoma State Baylor Ohio State Oklahoma ALTERNATES*: 1. Guillermo Nunez TCU 2. Matic Spec Minnesota 3. Nick Crystal 4. Florian Lakat Mississippi State 5. Diego Hidalgo Florida 6. Naoki Takeda Arizona

4 Page No Ben Lott Drake 8. Tim Kopinski Illinois 9. Beck Pennington Kentucky 10. Robbie Mudge North Carolina State *If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible singles player or doubles team from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list. Seeds 1-8: 1. Axel Alvarez Llamas Oklahoma 2. Julian Lenz Baylor 3. Mackenzie McDonald UCLA 4. Andrew Harris Oklahoma 5. Sebastian Stiefelmeyer Louisville 6. Søren Hess-Olesen Texas 7. Noah Rubin Wake Forest 8. Ryan Shane Virginia Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name: Nicolas Alvarez Gonzales Austin Romain Bogaerts Yannick Hanfmann Dominik Koepfer Mikelis Libietis Quentin Monaghan Brayden Schnur Vanderbilt Wake Forest Tulane Tennessee Notre Dame North Carolina DOUBLES Automatic qualifications (11), listed alphabetically by conference: American Athletic Oliver Pramming Justin Roberts South Florida ACC Luca Corinteli Ryan Shane Virginia Big Ten Kevin Metka Ralf Steinbach Ohio State Big 12 Julian Lenz Diego Galeano Baylor Ivy Denis Nguyen Brian Yeung Harvard Missouri Valley Tomislav Gregurovic Tin Ostojic Wichita State Pac-12 Roberto Quiroz Yannick Hanfmann SEC Ben Wagland Austin Smith Georgia Southland Michael Feucht Nikita Lis Lamar

5 Page No. 5 Summit League Henry Craig Alex Gasson Denver West Coast Filip Vittek Jordan Angus San Diego At-large selections (21), listed alphabetically by institution: Korey Lovett Becker O'Shaughnessey Alabama Lukas Ollert Marko Krickovic Auburn Nicolas Alvarez Raphael Hemmeler Benjamin Lock Marco Nunez Florida State Tim Kopinski Ross Guignon Illinois Jordan Daigle Boris Arias LSU John Patrick Mullane Harry Jadun Michigan State Julian Cash Florian Lakat Mississippi State Alex Lawson Billy Pecor Notre Dame Axel Alvarez Llamas Dane Webb Oklahoma Arjun Kadhe Jakob Sude Oklahoma State Nik Scholtz Zvonimir Babic Ole Miss John Morrissey Robert Stineman Stanford Nick Chappell Will Stein TCU Mikelis Libietis Hunter Reese Tennessee Lloyd Glasspool Søren Hess-Olesen Texas Harrison Adams Shane Vinsant Texas A&M Hugo Dojas Felipe Soares Texas Tech Mackenzie McDonald Martin Redlicki UCLA Gonzales Austin Rhys Johnson Vanderbilt Christian Seraphim Skander Mansouri Wake Forest ALTERNATES*: 1. Kyle Koch Thiago Pinheiro South Carolina 2. Cameron Norrie Trevor Johnson TCU 3. Roberto Cid Sasha Gozun South Florida 4. Ian Dempster Robbie Mudge North Carolina State 5. Chris Kipouras Dovydas Sakinis Dartmouth 6. Eddy Covalschi Josh Hagar Notre Dame *If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible singles player or doubles team from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.

6 Page No. 6 Seeds 1-4: 1. Ben Wagland Austin Smith Georgia 2. Roberto Quiroz Yannick Hanfmann 3. Luca Corinteli Ryan Shane Virginia 4. Mikelis Libietis Hunter Reese Tennessee Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution: Julian Lenz Diego Galeano Baylor Julian Cash Florian Lakat Mississippi State Kevin Metka Ralf Steinbach Ohio State Gonzales Austin Rhys Johnson Vanderbilt -30-

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Men's National Team Rankings Administered by the ITA NCAA Division I Tennis May 26, 2015 Rank Avg School Previous Week 1 95.93 University of Virginia 3 2 94.39 University of Oklahoma 1 3 84.63 Baylor University