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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Inside Junior Tennis Podcast; Men's Team Indoor All-tournament team

Last Thursday, I spoke with Kevin McClure of The Tennis Podcast and this edition of Inside Junior Tennis was posted Monday. We talked about the Australian Open Junior winners, Craig Tiley staying in Australia, Les Petits As and the Women's Team Indoor. We spoke a little bit about the (then) upcoming Men's Team Indoor too. For those of you who would like to listen or subscribe via iTunes, the link is here.

There won't be a slide show from the Men's Indoor, since I wasn't there, but the ITA did announce the All-tournament team and Most Outstanding Player, which I used as the basis for my Women's Indoor slide show, so I'm passing those along.

Devvarman was voted the Most Outstanding Player of the championships today. He posted a 3-0 record at No. 1 singles and 4-0 mark at No. 1 doubles with Treat Huey. He won the clinching match in tight quarterfinal and semifinal matches against UCLA and Mississippi, respectively. The 2007 NCAA singles champion, Devvarman also improved his overall records to 21-1 in both singles and doubles this season.

The ITA All-Tournament Team is as follows:
Singles
No. 1 - Somdev Devvarman, Virginia
No. 2 - Steven Moneke, Ohio State
No. 3 - Robbye Poole, Mississippi
No. 4 - Sanam Singh, Virginia
No. 5 - Matt Allare, Ohio State
No. 6 - Drew Eberly, Ohio State
Doubles
No. 1 - Somdev Devvarman and Treat Huey, Virginia
No. 2 - Drew Eberly and Justin Kronauge, Ohio State
No. 3 - Jeremy Drean and Michael Look, UCLA
This is the first time an ITA All-Tournament Team has been named. Voters for the team included the participating coaches, the ITA National Ranking & Tournament Committee and select media covering the championships.
For a local story on Virginia's championship, click here.

And in non-college news, 2005 Orange Bowl champion and 2006 Wimbledon Junior champion Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark defeated 2007 Wimbledon women's finalist Marion Bartoli of France who was the eighth seed in the WTA tournament in Qatar. An on-the-scene report on the 17-year-old's upset can be found here.

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