GREENSBORO, N.C. - UNC Greensboro sophomore Orcun Seyrek is ranked No. 95 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) Top 125 preseason rankings, which were released over the weekend.
Last year, Seyrek, a native of Istanbul, Turkey, won the Southern Conference Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards. He became the first player to sweep both awards since the Freshman of the Year award was established by the league in 1992. He was the first freshman to win the Player of the Year award since Yaser Zaatini of East Tennessee State took the honor in 1990. Zaatini went on to with the honor three times during his career. Seyrek was also UNCG's first-ever Conference Player of the Year in the Division I era (beginning in 1991).
Seyrek went 19-2 last spring, including 9-1 in league play, as UNCG's No. 1 singles player. Both of his losses in the spring came against nationally-ranked players. For the overall season, he finished the season with a 25-4 mark, the fourth-highest single-season win total in school history. He was also 16-7 overall and 13-6 this spring in doubles play with Arsel Kumdereli.
Seyrek's performance last season was a big part of UNCG's turnaround from a three-win season in 2007-08 to a 15-8 mark last season and a tie for third in the SoCon standings with a 7-3 mark in league play. The Spartans also won a Southern Conference Tournament match for the first time in seven years last season.
Seyrek was the only Southern Conference player to appear in the rankings.
UNCG opens the 2009-10 campaign this coming weekend when they host the UNCG Fall Invitational beginning Friday and concluding on Sunday.
AGATE
National Preseason Singles Rankings
NCAA Division I Men's Tennis
Administered by the ITA
September 4, 2009
|
Preseason Rank |
Player |
School |
|
1 |
Oleksandr Nedovyesov |
Oklahoma State University |
|
2 |
John-Patrick Smith |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
|
3 |
Robert Farah |
Univ. of Southern California |
|
4 |
Nate Schnugg |
University of Georgia |
|
5 |
Guillermo Gomez |
Georgia Tech |
|
6 |
Dimitar Kutrovsky |
Univ. of Texas at Austin |
|
7 |
Alex Clayton |
Stanford University |
|
8 |
Jean-Yves Aubone |
Florida State University |
|
9 |
Sanam Singh |
University of Virginia |
|
10 |
Saketh Myneni |
University of Alabama |
|
11 |
Carlos Cueto |
University of Florida |
|
12 |
Austen Childs |
Univ. of Louisville |
|
13 |
Justin Kronauge |
Ohio State University |
|
14 |
Michael Shabaz |
University of Virginia |
|
15 |
Bradley Klahn |
Stanford University |
|
16 |
Clay Donato |
North Carolina |
|
17 |
Dean Jackson |
Univ. of San Diego |
|
18 |
Steve Johnson |
Univ. of Southern California |
|
19 |
Moritz Baumann |
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison |
|
20 |
Boris Conkic |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
|
21 |
Bassam Beidas |
Pepperdine |
|
22 |
Bruno Rosa |
Rice University |
|
23 |
Alex Lacroix |
University of Florida |
|
24 |
Dennis Nevolo |
University of Illinois |
|
25 |
Raony Carvalho |
Texas Tech University |
|
26 |
Roy Kalmanovich |
University of Illinois |
|
27 |
Jordan Rux |
Baylor University |
|
28 |
Diego Cubas |
University of South Carolina |
|
29 |
Reid Carleton |
Duke University |
|
30 |
Austin Krajicek |
Texas A&M University |
|
31 |
Kalle Norberg |
Univ. of Mississippi |
|
32 |
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan |
University of Washington |
|
33 |
Clint Bowles |
Florida State University |
|
34 |
Marek Michalicka |
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison |
|
35 |
Yoann Re |
Virginia Tech |
|
36 |
Jay Goldman |
Univ. of Arizona |
|
37 |
Jamie Hunt |
University of Georgia |
|
38 |
Javier Garrapiz |
University of Georgia |
|
39 |
Matt Brooklyn |
UCLA |
|
40 |
Andrei Daescu |
Univ. of Oklahoma |
|
41 |
Jason Jung |
University of Michigan |
|
42 |
Pedro Zerbini |
California |
|
43 |
Dennis Lajola |
Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa |
|
44 |
Robin Fahgen |
SMU |
|
45 |
Balazs Novak |
Ohio State University |
|
46 |
Ed Corrie |
Univ. of Texas at Austin |
|
47 |
Kellen Damico |
Univ. of Texas at Austin |
|
48 |
Lucas Jovita |
University of South Florida |
|
49 |
Jaak Poldma |
Univ. of Southern California |
|
50 |
Houston Barrick |
University of Virginia |
|
51 |
Tobias Wernet |
Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
|
52 |
Lachlan Ferguson |
Indiana University-Bloomington |
|
53 |
James Meredith |
Boise State University |
|
54 |
Tim Puetz |
Auburn University |
|
55 |
Slah Mbarek |
TCU |
|
56 |
Lee Singer |
University of Virginia |
|
57 |
Nick Meister |
UCLA |
|
58 |
John Peers |
Middle Tennessee State University |
|
59 |
Christopher Aumueller |
Univ. of Nebraska |
|
60 |
Shuhei Uzawa |
Ohio State University |
|
61 |
Keziel Juneau |
College of William and Mary |
|
62 |
Viktor Maksimcuk |
Univ. of Louisville |
|
63 |
Bryant Salcedo |
Vanderbilt University |
|
64 |
Holden Seguso |
UCLA |
|
65 |
Philip Stephens |
Univ. of Tulsa |
|
66 |
Achim Ceban |
San Diego State University |
|
67 |
Patricio Alvarado |
Univ. of Southern Mississippi |
|
68 |
Emanu Brighiu |
TCU |
|
69 |
Marc Abdelnour |
Florida Atlantic University |
|
70 |
Eric Quigley |
University of Kentucky |
|
71 |
Alex Llompart |
Pepperdine |
|
72 |
Simon Childs |
Univ. of Louisville |
|
73 |
Wael Kilani |
University of South Florida |
|
74 |
Steven Forman |
Wake Forest University |
|
75 |
David Bendheim |
Univ. of Nebraska |
|
76 |
Richard Wire |
Stanford University |
|
77 |
Matt Allare |
Ohio State University |
|
78 |
Mihai Nichifor |
Columbia University |
|
79 |
Carl Sundberg |
Univ. of Miami (Florida) |
|
80 |
Carlos Alvarez |
Clemson University |
|
81 |
Patrick Daciek |
Virginia Tech |
|
82 |
Dean O'Brien |
Tennessee Tech University |
|
83 |
Artem Ilyushin |
Mississippi State University |
|
84 |
Drew Courtney |
University of Virginia |
|
85 |
Attila Bucko |
Baylor University |
|
86 |
Dylan Arnould |
Duke University |
|
87 |
Kiryl Harbatsiuk |
Sacramento State |
|
88 |
Thibaut Charron |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
|
89 |
David Simson |
University of Denver |
|
90 |
Casey Watt |
Univ. of Notre Dame |
|
91 |
Gregory Hirshman |
Stanford University |
|
92 |
Michael Palumbo |
Fairfield University |
|
93 |
Wessim Derbel |
Univ. of Nevada |
|
94 |
Chris Nott |
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville |
|
95 |
UNC Greensboro |
|
|
96 |
Ryan Thacher |
Stanford University |
|
97 |
Marek Czerwinski |
University of Illinois |
|
98 |
Stephen Havens |
Univ. of Notre Dame |
|
99 |
Matt Kecki |
Univ. of Southern California |
|
100 |
Tobias Fanselow |
Old Dominion University |
|
101 |
Nobuyoshi Tanaka |
Longwood University |
|
102 |
Anton Stryhas |
Sacramento State |
|
103 |
Ivan Salec |
Radford University |
|
104 |
Slavko Bijelica |
Purdue University |
|
105 |
Joey Burkhardt |
University of Florida |
|
106 |
Pedro Campos |
University of South Carolina |
|
107 |
Antonie Benneteau |
Florida |
|
108 |
Chase Buchanan |
Ohio State |
|
109 |
George Coupland |
Mississippi State |
|
110 |
Stefan Hardy |
North Carolina |
|
111 |
Kevin King |
Georgia Tech |
|
112 |
Steven Rooda |
Virginia |
|
113 |
Julien Bley |
Baylor |
|
114 |
Matteo Fago |
Tennessee |
|
115 |
Vahid Mirzadeh |
Florida State |
|
116 |
Julen Uriguen |
Virginia |
|
117 |
Johnny Hamui |
Florida |
|
118 |
Jon Wolff |
Wake Forest |
|
119 |
Andres Weber |
Hawaii |
|
120 |
Anton Bobytskyi |
Oklahoma State |
|
121 |
Romain Bocaert |
University of South Alabama |
|
122 |
Andres Arango |
Arizona |
|
123 |
Chris Kearney |
UC Irvine |
|
124 |
Idan Mark |
Tulane |
|
125 |
Luka Somen |
Virginia Tech |
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