Oct. 24, 2007

Tulsa, Okla. -

Pre-Qualifying Draw

The University of Tulsa men's tennis players will begin competitionon Thursday at the Wilson/ITA Central Region Championships at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center on the TU campus. The open singles and doubles portion on the tournament will begin on Thursday and concludes on Sunday, Oct. 28. The rounds of 64 and 32 will be played in singles and the round of 64 in doubles. The first round of singles will begin at 9:00 am, with the second round starting at 1:00 pm. The first doubles match will begin approximately at 5:30 pm.

Featured teams from the Central Region are: Tulsa, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, ORU, Arkansas, Creighton, Drake, Nebraska, Wichita State, St. Louis, Illinois State, Arkansas-Little Rock and Southern Illinois.

Tulsa will have five singles players in action tomorrow, as well as a doubles pair. Junior Ross Cunningham plays Arkansas' Conor Smith, a qualifier, at 9:00 am. Also at 9:00 am, senior Andy Connelly faces off against Marcus Fadul of St. Louis Univ. At 9:30 am, senior Will Gray will play Francois Van Inpe of Nebraska. Sophomore Albert Jou and senior Ricardo Soriano both play at 10:30 am against Tiago Espirito Santo of Wichita State and Alex Dargel of ORU, respectively.

In TU's lone doubles match, the pair of Gray/Soriano will play Illinois State's duo of Daniel Tobar/Luka Marinkovic at 5:30 pm.

Singles
Ross Cunningham vs. Conor Smith (Q), Arkansas - 9:00 am
Andy Connelly vs. Marcus Fadul, SLU - 9:00 am
Will Gray vs. Francois Van Inpe, Nebraska - 9:30 am
Albert Jou vs. Tiago Espirito Santo, Wichita State - 10:30 am
Ricardo Soriano vs. Alex Dargel, ORU - 10:30 am

Doubles
Gray/Soriano vs. Daniel Tobar/Luka Marinkovic, Illinois State - 5:30 pm.