Nov. 4, 2007

Tallahassee, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - Four student-athletes from the UCF men's tennis team returned to Orlando today after playing in Tallahassee at the Seminole Invitational. Senior Sinan Sudas (Adana, Turkey) won three-straight matches in the `B' Division of singles play to reach the final four of the bracket.

Sudas defeated Florida A&M's Paul Paige, 6-0, 6-1. The senior then went on to knock off Drake Bernstein of Georgia in three sets, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Sudas won his third-straight match against Radek Pivonka of South Carolina State, 6-2, 7-6. In a 6-4, 6-4 decision, Sudas fell to South Alabama's R.J. Nagel.

Sophomore Johan Beigart (Vaxjo, Sweden) lost to Florida State's Sam Chang, 6-4, 6-1 in the first round of the `A' Division. However, Beigart defeated Chang in the `A' Division Consolation bracket, but then lost to Mississippi's Bam Ten Berge in his next match.

In the `B' Division, junior Brock Sakey (Gulf Breeze, Fla./Gulf Breeze) knocked off Auburn's Hunter Mills, 6-2, 6-1. The Gulf Breeze native then defeated Mercer's Tobias Ohrstrom, 7-6(0), 6-2. In the third of five rounds, Sakey fell to South Alabama's Aaron Krisan, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.

Freshman Blaze Schwartz (Pensacola, Fla./Washington), who fell to Jacksonville's Jordi Ballester, 6-4, battled back to win the second game 6-1, but dropped the third, 6-3.

Sakey and Beigart lost in doubles to Miami's David Rosenfeld and Vivek Subramanian, 8-3. Miami's duo lost in the doubles championship against Florida State's Yves Aubone and Clint Bowles.

Juniors Jimmy Roesch (Melbourne, Fla./Eau Gallie) and Danny Colón (Jacksonville, Fla./Englewood) finish play at the Florida Southern College Fall Invitational on Monday.

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