Day 2 of the Battle of the Bay Classic

Nachbauer/Schumacher advance to Semifinals of the Battle of the Bay Classic

October 30,2009

(San Francisco,CA)

Day 2 of the Battle of the Bay Classic featured Senior Rainer Nachbauer(Bregenz,Austria)and Freshman Will Schumacher (New Orleans,LA)defeating St. Mary's Maxime Olivan and Lucas Tirelli 8-4 to advance to the semifinal round of the Battle of the Bay Classic. Nachbauer and Schumacher will face Cal-Berkeleys Tommy Murphy and Nicholas Andrews who earlier in the day defeated USF's Thai Tu and Asaf Cohen 9-8(5). In singles action Sophomore Thai Tu defeated former teammate and Cal Bear Tommy Murphy 6-2,7-6(2) while SCU's Jay Wong defeated USF's Einar Hart 6-3,6-4 in first round action. USF's Asaf Cohen's also fell to Stanford's Denis Lin 7-5,6-2. Play for Day 3 will take place at 10a.m. at the California Tennis Club. For more information log onto www.battleofthebayclassic.com

Singles Bracket
http://www.usfdons.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/sanf/sports/m-tennis/auto_pdf/SinglesBracket

Doubles Bracket
http://www.usfdons.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/sanf/sports/m-tennis/auto_pdf/doubles

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Day 1 of the Battle of the Bay Classic

Thursday marked the qualifying rounds of the 2009 Battle of the Bay Classic, hosted by the USF men’s tennis team, at the Cal Club in San Francisco. The four-day event features the top singles players and doubles teams from five Division I schools in the Bay Area - USF, California, Stanford, Saint Mary's and Santa Clara. Admission to the event free for the general public.

Six matches were played Thursday as part of qualifying for the main draws, which will begin Friday.

The day opened with USF’s Einar Hart posting a straight set 6-3, 6-3 victory over Saint Mary’s Sherif Hamdy in singles action. Also representing the Dons for the day, William Schumacher suffered a 6-3, 4-6, 10-2 loss at the hands of Grant Fleming from Santa Clara. In addition, Tommie Murphy from Cal earned a 3-6, 7-5, 14-12 win over Andreas Zannoni of SMC and Tom Pham from Santa Clara downed Sam Ecker from Stanford 6-3, 6-4.

In doubles action, Murphy teams with Nick Andrews from Cal to defeat the Gaels’ Hamdy and Steven Dawson-Roberts 8-3. In the final action of the afternoon, Pham and Buckley from Santa Clara defeated Stanford’s Ted Kelly and Ecker, 8-1.

Friday, the first serves of the day will start at 10 a.m. for singles play. Doubles are slated to begin at 2:30. Following doubles action, there will be an ATP exhibition featuring Paul Goldstein and Sam Warburg, both of whom are alumni of the Stanford men's tennis program.

The quarterfinals and semifinals for the singles bracket will take place Saturday at 10:30 and 12:30, respectively. Following singles action, the doubles semifinals will be played at 3 p.m.

Sunday will be Kids Day at the courts, with the finals of both the singles and doubles brackets taking center stage. Action is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. The Dons have worked in conjunction with Harper for Kids, a local non-profit organization, to produce Kids Day at the Cal Club.

The Cal Club is located at 1770 Scott Street in the heart of San Francisco (94115).

For more information, visit www.battleofthebayclassic.com.

2009 Battle of the Bay Classic Qualifying Results
Singles
Einar Hart (USF) def. Sherif Hamdy (SMC) 6-3, 6-3
Tommy Murphy (CAL) def. Andreas Zannoni (SMC) 3-6, 7-5, 14-12
Tom Pham (SCU) def. Sam Ecker (STAN) 6-3, 6-4
Grant Fleming (SCU) def. Will Schumacher (USF) 6-3, 4-6, 10-2

Doubles
Nick Andrews/Tommy Murphy (Cal) def. Sherif Hamdy/Steven Dawson-Roberts (SMC) 8-3
Tom Pham/Buckley (SCU) def. Ted Kelly/Sam Ecker (STAN) 8-1

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USF Men's Tennis Coach Peter Bartlett's thoughts on the Battle of the Bay Classic

Courtesy of USF Dons Athletics

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Men's Tennis Hosts Battle Of The Bay Classic

Event to take place Thursday-Sunday at the Cal Club

Oct. 27, 2009

(San Francisco,CA) - USF men's tennis will host the inaugural Battle of the Bay Classic this weekend at the Cal Club in San Francisco. The four-day event will feature the top singles players and doubles teams from five Division I schools in
the Bay Area - USF, California, Stanford, Saint Mary's and Santa Clara. Admission to the event is free for the general public.

The Battle of the Bay will not only feature the top collegiate tennis players from the region, it was also highlight former ATP professionals. The invitational tournament will be the first of its kind, featuring high-level competitive tennis with local and national repercussions at stake. The Battle of the Bay is an Intercollegiate Tennis Association sanctioned event that will count for NCAA Division I singles and doubles rankings.

Action will get underway Thursday with the qualifying rounds. Singles play will begin at 10 a.m., with doubles qualifying commencing immediately following.

Friday, the first serves of the day will start at 10 a.m. for singles play. Doubles are slated to begin at 2:30. Following doubles action, there will be an ATP exhibition featuring Paul Goldstein and Sam Warburg, both of whom are alumni of the Stanford men's tennis program.

The quarterfinals and semifinals for the singles bracket will take place Saturday at 10:30 and 12:30, respectively. Following singles action, the doubles semifinals will be played at 3 p.m.

Sunday will be Kids Day at the courts, with the finals of both the singles and doubles brackets taking center stage. Action is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. The Dons have worked in conjunction with Harper for Kids, a local non-profit organization, to produce Kids Day at the Cal Club.

The Cal Club is located at 1770 Scott Street in the heart of San Francisco (94115).

For more information and a detailed schedule of the event, please check out www.battleofthebayclassic.com. For results from the event, please continue to visit www.usfdons.com.

About the Cal Club: Founded in 1884, the California Tennis Club has a rich history of hosting world-class tennis dating back to Pacific Open in the 1950's-60's. The 2009 Battle of the Bay will be open to the public and the CTC looks forward to creating a community based top-notch tennis tournament that will serve those in attendance. The Club is the old existing tennis club West of the Mississippi River and the eighth oldest tennis club in the U.S. The Cal Club, as it's referred to by its members, is a proud member of the elite international organization, the Centenary Tennis Clubs, with clubs exceeding 100 years in age from all over the world.

About Harper for Kids: Harper for Kids, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization was formed in 2008. Its purpose is to provide children with educational and enrichment programs to cultivate, inspire and develop leadership skills and promote healthy character development. The mission of Harper for Kids is to teach children important life skills that will empower them to achieve their personal best in life. The HFK vision is that its enrichment programs will help children develop good character and inspire adults in the children's lives to be good role models of important core ethical values and help foster a healthy community. The organization was founded by Time and Peanut Harper.

About University of San Francisco Men's Tennis: The USF men's tennis program holds a rich history, including a National Team Championship in 1949, a NCAA singles title by Harry Likas in 1948 and a member of the National Tennis Hall of Fame, Art "Tappy" Larsen. The Dons are currently coached by Peter Bartlett, the 2003 West Coast Conference Coach of the Year, who is in his 13th year at the helm of the Dons.

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University of San Francisco to compete at ITA Regionals

The University of San Francisco Men's Tennis team will compete at the ITA Regional Championships in Berkeley,CA Friday, Oct. 23, through Tuesday, Oct. 27th at the Hellman Tennis Complex and Channing Tennis Courts. The five-day tournament will produce a singles and doubles champion which will each earn berths to the 2009 ITA National Indoor Tennis Championships from Nov. 5-8, in New Haven, Conn.

Universities that will be competing with the USF Dons will be Eastern Washington, Fresno State, Gonzaga, Oregon, Pacific, Portland, Sacramento State, Saint Mary's College, Santa Clara, Stanford, UC Davis and Washington.

Hosted by the University of California, the 2009 Wilson/ITA Northwest Regional Championship will determine a singles and doubles champion from the ITA Northwest Region. The regional tournament will consist of a 128-player singles draw and a 64-team doubles draw. A 64-player singles consolation draw will be held only for those players who lose their first round match. There will also be one round of doubles consolation play.

Singles and doubles champions from each of the main draws will earn automatic bids into the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, held in New Haven, Conn. Nov. 5-8. The ITA National Indoor Championships are the second of college tennis's three major championships and the most difficult to gain entry into due to a small field of 32 singles entrants and 16 doubles entrants.

For more information regarding results and information log onto

http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-tennis/09itaregional.html

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Former Don Pablo Pires De Almeida Falls in 1st Rd Doubles of Tiburon Challenger

Former USF Standout Pablo Pires De Almeida(Fairfax,CA) c/o'05 teamed up with former Virginia Star Rylan Rizza (Rancho Palos Verdes,CA) in the $50,000 RBS Scotland Challenger event this afternoon falling 6-4,7-5 to Australia's Matt Reid and the Netherlands Igor Sisling. Amazing points were exchanged and the local crowd was able to see it's hometown player perform at such a high caliber level. Sisling and Reid will next face two former NCAA Collegiate Stars Treat Huey of Virginia and Harsh Mankad who played at Minnesota. For more results log onto

http://tiburonpc.org/challenger/

Photos of Doubles Match courtesy of Dayle Bell

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Former USF Don Pablo Pires De Almeida Receives Doubles WC into Tiburon Challenger

Former USF Don and current Men's Assistant Coach Pablo Pires De Almeida c/o '05 receieves a doubles Wildcard into the Main Draw of the $50,000 USTA Tiburon Challenger. Pires De Almeida currently ranked #1333 on the ATP Tour will partner up with former Virginia Star Rylan Rizza. Doubles will begin play on Tuesday October
13th. For more information please log onto http://tiburonpc.org/challenger/?page_id=7

Pablo Pires De Almeida bio: http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Pi/P/Pablo-Pires-De-Almeida.aspx?t=pa

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Thai Tu falls in close Match in Tiburon Qualifying

October 14th,2009
(Tiburon,CA)

USF Sophomore Thai Tu came up on the short end Saturday afternoon losing an incredibly close match to Australia's ATP #250 Nick Lindahl 4-6,7-5,7-6(6) after holding match points. Tu who is a transfer from Cal Berkeley looks to play at the #1 spot for the Dons this year as did his brother Tommy Tu c/o'09 who graduated this past spring. Tu and Lindahl traded baseline shots and rallys from corner to corner. Tu was serving for the match in the second set at 5-4, third set at 5-4 holding match point, and having match point in the 3rd set tiebreaker at 6-5. Lindahl an experienced seasoned ATP Pro at 21 who has played mostly Challengers during his career participated in this year's Australian Open and more recently won the Seascape Challenger this past July in Aptos,CA.

To view pictures from Thai's first round qualifying match log onto http://picasaweb.google.com/guadalupe.alonso07/Pablo?feat=email#

photos courtesy of Guadalupe Olonso

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University of San Francisco Sophomore Thai Tu Receives WC into RBS Pro Challenger Qualifying

Sophomore Thai Tu has been granted a Wildcard into the qualifying of the RBC Challenger in Tiburon,California. Qualifying play will begin the weekend of October 10-11th at the Tiburon Peninsula Club with the Main Draw starting the week of October 12-18th. For more information log onto http://tiburonpc.org/challenger/


The Tiburon Peninsula Club is very proud to host the $50,000 Royal Bank of Scotland USTA Pro Circuit Challenger. As you may recall, TPC has hosted two of these events, in 2003 and 2004. Both were resounding successes — sponsors and participants considered these tournaments the best USTA Challengers on the schedule. The qualifying tournament begins Saturday, October 10th, with the main draw starting on Monday, October 12 and culminating with the finals on Sunday, October 18th.

USTA Men's Circuit
There are two types of men's events on the USTA Pro Circuit: Futures and Challengers. Each event has 32 players in the main singles draw and 16 teams competing in doubles.




Futures are professional tournaments offering $10,000 to $15,000 in prize money and are typically the proving ground for top-ranked juniors, college players and pros at the beginning of their careers. Players competing in Futures generally have an ATP Entry System ranking ranging from No. 150 to No. 900. The singles qualifying draw size is 64 or 128 players for the $10,000 events, and 64 players for the $15,000 events. Players must reach the round of 16 to earn a ranking point.

Challengers offer $25,000 to $50,000 in prize money. These tournaments serve as a bridge between the Futures and the ATP tour and enable players to earn more points per round than they do in Futures events. In fact, players can achieve a Top 100 ranking by playing solely in Challengers. The qualifying draw size is 32 players.

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Dons Open Fall Season At Bulldog Classic

USF advances six singles to at least the quarterfinals


Fresno, Calif.) - The USF men's tennis team opened the 2009 fall season this weekend at the Bulldog Classic in Fresno. The event was successful for the Dons, who had six singles and a doubles team advance to at least the quarterfinals of each bracket.

In the singles Flight A bracket, newcomer Thai Tu earned a bye in the round of 32, before posting three-set victories in the round of 16 and the quarterfinals. In the round of 16, the sophomore posted a 4-6, 7-5 6-1 defeat of Riki McLachlan from Cal before downing Frenso State's Botillier 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the quarterfinals. Tu's run fell short though, as he lost to eventual champion Rikus DeVilliers of FSU, 7-6, 4-6, 6-2.

In the Flight B bracket, three Dons advanced to the round of 16, but just one USF player advanced further. Rainer Nachbauer, Jacob Hartwig and Einar Hart each advanced to the round of 16, with just Nachbauer advancing on. Hartwin posted a three-set 6-1, 1-6, 7-6 (3) victory over Sho Hugichi of Oregon in the opening round before dropping a straight-set 6-2, 6-1 match to Matheiu Forget of UC Santa Barbara in the round of 16. Hart posted a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Gabe Kanzelmeyer of Nevada, before falling 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Chris Aria of UC Davis in the second round. Nachbauer earned a spot in the round of 16 by virtue of a bye, before advancing to the quarterfinals with a defeat due to injury in the round of 16. In the quarterfinals, Nachbauer feel 6-2, 2-6, 6-0 to Taylor Leiby of Fresno State.

Ola Bakke fell in the opening round of the Flight B, but advanced to the semifinals of the consolation bracket, thanks to a straight set 6-2, 6-3 victory over Kristian Kuharszky of Nevada.
In Flight C, Will Schumaker highlighted the Dons' efforts advancing to the Finals. The freshman posted a 6-3, 6-2 opening round victory over Jack Horowitz of UC Davis, before defeating Robert Zacks of Cal Poly 6-3, 7-6. In the Semifinals, Schumaker defeated Somach of Oregon 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 before falling in the championship to Max Glenn 6-1, 4-6, 4-3, ret.

In doubles action, the Dons' Mark DeCastro and Schumaker advanced to the semifinals of the B Flight. Also in action in the flight were the San Francisco doubles teams of Kotlyar/Peder Steen and Hart/Nachbauer.

USF will take to the courts again this weekend as they travel to Tiburon for the TPC Challenge.

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