Bulldogs Carvalho/Pinto Earn Berth In NCAA Doubles Field
Currently ranked 29th nationally together, Carvalho, a senior, and Pinto, a junior, notched a 14-16 overall record this year. Among their successes was a semifinal showing in the fall at the ITA All-American Championships in Chattanooga, Tenn., college tennis' first major of the year. During that run, which earned them a top 10 ranking in January, they upset the second-ranked team in the country at the time.
Other highlights of the pair's campaign was a quarterfinal showing at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens, Ga., in September and a berth in the prestigious 16-team field of the ITA National Indoor Championships, the second major, in Ann Arbor, Mich., in November. The duo also made the quarters of the SEC Indoor Championship in New Orleans in January.
Prior to competition in the doubles field, Carvalho and Pinto will join the rest of the MSU net squad in team competition, as the Bulldogs make their 15th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Team Championship. State meets Virginia Commonwealth in first-round action next Friday afternoon in Durham, N.C. on the Duke University campus.