Bulldog Men’s Tennis Set For ITA All-American Championships

Saturday, September 29

Tulsa, Okla.

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Mississippi State

ITA All-American Championships

2018 SEC Tournament MVP Trevor Foshey opens up play for Mississippi State in the pre-qualifying singles draw of the ITA All-American Championships Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Bulldog Men’s Tennis Set For ITA All-American Championships

September 28, 2018 | Men's Tennis

2018 ITA Men's All-American Championships HQ Pre-Qualifying Draws (PDF)

by Caleb Garner, Graduate Assistant/Communications

STARKVILLE – One of the nation's top college tennis tournaments will feature six members of the Mississippi State men's tennis team, with the ITA All-American Championships kicking off Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The tournament is in its 13th straight season being hosted by the University of Tulsa, with matches being played at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center. Pre-qualifying singles action begins Saturday, with qualifying singles and doubles being held Oct. 1-2 and main draw matches transpiring between Oct. 4-8.

MSU's two-time ITA singles All-American Nuno Borges will occupy one of the top seeds in the singles main draw. Also joining him in the draw are fellow All-Americans Giovanni Oradini and Strahinja Rakic, ranked fifth and 43rd nationally in singles, respectively.

2018 Southeastern Conference Tournament MVP Trevor Foshey gets things started for the Maroon and White on Saturday in singles pre-qualifying.

Foshey is seeded sixth in the draw and earned a first-round bye. The senior from St. Cloud, Florida, will take the court at approximately 3 p.m. CT Saturday, when he will face the winner of the match between Temple's Alberto Caceres Casas and Notre Dame's Matt Gamble that is set for an 8 a.m. start time. Foshey will be playing on the courts at the nearby Union 9th Grade Center.

A pair of Bulldogs are slated to take the court in the qualifying singles draw Monday in State's 109th-ranked Niclas Braun and sophomore Florian Broska.

In doubles, State has a trio of tandems set to take the court in Tulsa, led by the top-ranked duo in the country in Borges and Rakic who were 2018 NCAA quarterfinalists. Not far behind them is the nation's No. 5 pair in Braun and Oradini. Both will open up play later in the week in the doubles main draw.

Foshey will team up with Broska in doubles qualifying with hopes of adding a third State pair to the main draw. Last season, Broska and Foshey finished 14-6 overall in 2017-18 including an 11-6 mark in dual match play. Matchups for the qualifying doubles bracket will be announced this weekend.

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