Bulldogs Head To Baton Rouge For ITA Southern Regionals

Thursday, October 19

Baton Rouge, La.

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Mississippi State

ITA Southern Regional Championships

MSU rookie Hunter Harrison will kick things off for MSU in the ITA Southern Regional Championship on Thursday

Bulldogs Head To Baton Rouge For ITA Southern Regionals

October 18, 2017 | Men's Tennis

ITA Southern Regional Qualifying Draw ITA Southern Regional Singles Main Draw ITA Southern Regional Doubles Main Draw

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Joining 14 other programs, six members of the Mississippi State men's tennis team will compete at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southern Region Championships beginning Thursday.

State is one of five Southeastern Conference programs represented at the tournament, along with host LSU, Alabama, Auburn and Ole Miss.

MSU freshman Hunter Harrison will kick things off for the Bulldogs in Thursday's qualifying draw at 10 a.m. against Nicholas Kramer of New Orleans.

State's Trevor Foshey will open up his singles main draw play on Friday against Troy's Mustapha Belcora. Giovanni Oradini, Niclas Braun, Florian Broska and Strahinja Rakic all earned a first-round bye in the singles main draw and will not take the court until Saturday.

Last season, 2017 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year Nuno Borges earned the tournament's singles crown in Auburn, Ala.

In doubles, State's seventh-ranked tandem of Braun and Foshey return after reaching the finals last fall. The pair enter the tournament as the top seed in the doubles main draw, earning a bye in the first round. The duo's test will be Jacksonville State's Andres Gomez and Aljaz Kaplja.

Oradini is looking to continue his hot start to the fall, with all six of his victories in 2017 coming against ranked foes. This year's tournament will be the first appearance in the ITA Southern Regional Championships for both he and Broska.

Braun, Foshey and Rakic all saw success in last season's tournament in singles, with Rakic earning a victory against 35th-ranked Jordan Daigle of LSU on his way to facing his teammate Borges in the quarterfinals.

All the action in Baton Rouge can be followed via live stats.

Singles finalists and doubles champions of the ITA Southern Regionals advance to the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships in Indian Wells, Calif., Nov. 1-5.

Up Next For MSU…

After concluding play in Baton Rouge, the Bulldogs will be back in action in a USTA Futures tournament in Birmingham, Ala., set to begin Oct. 27.

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