Oct. 8, 2006
ATLANTA - The UCF men's tennis team participated in its second event of the fall season this weekend, competing at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational at the Bill Moore Tennis Center. Several Golden Knights had strong showings playing against some of the top programs in the region.
Sophomores Jimmy Roesch (Melbourne, Fla./Eau Gallie HS) and Brock Sakey (Gulf Breeze, Fla./Gulf Breeze HS) advanced to the flight B doubles semifinals. The pair opened the tournament with an 8-4 victory over Mississippi State's Ryan Farlow and Artem Kuznetsov.
In the second round, the Golden Knights topped a team led by Alabama's Taylor Striplin, 8-4. Roesch and Sakey were stopped in the semifinals as the duo lost 9-8 (5) to Morgan Richard and Marc Rocafort of Middle Tennessee State.
Roesch had the most success in individual play, competing in the flight B singles bracket. After losing his first round match, he recorded wins over Georgia Southern's Daniel Harden, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-4 and Auburn's Aaron Williams, 6-3, 6-1. In the consolation bracket semifinals, Roesch fell to Danielk Balog of Georgia State (6-3, 6-2).
Playing in the flight A doubles bracket, junior Sinan Sudas (Adana, Turkey) and sophomore Norman Alcantara (Mexico City, Mexico) went 1-1. They breezed past Milan Krnjetin and Nick Maurillo of Auburn, 8-0, in the first round. The UCF pair then fell 8-6 to Alabama's Saketh Mynemi and Jordie Kindervater.
Nine teams that finished 2006 in the Fila Collegiate Tennis Rankings participated in the event. Included in that total were five programs - Georgia, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Middle Tennessee State and Alabama - that concluded the year in the top 40.
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UCF Individual Results
Tarek Ben Soltane - Flight A
Round of 32: lost to Mattias Skold (Georgia State) 6-4, 6-1
Consolation Round of 16: lost to James Clow (Nebraska) 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
Jimmy Roesch - Flight B
Round of 32: lost to Eric Lim (Mississippi State) 5-7, 6-4, 7-5
Consolation Round of 16: defeated Daniel Harden (Georgia Southern) 6-3, 6-7 (2) 6-4
Consolation Quarterfinals: defeated Aaron Williams (Auburn) 6-3, 6-1
Consolation Semifinals: lost to Danielk Balog (Georgia State) 6-3, 6-2
Brock Sakey - Flight A
Round of 32: lost to Jamie Hunt (Georgia) 6-0, 7-5
Consolation Round of 16: defeated Chris Doerr (Mississippi State) 6-2, 1-0 (ret.)
Consolation Quarterfinals: lost to Josh Varella (Georgia) 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2
Sinan Sudas - Flight A
Round of 32: lost to Lukas Marosun (Auburn) 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-3
Consolation Round of 16: lost to George Gvelesiani (Georgia Tech) 7-6 (6), 6-3
Alcantara/Sudas - Flight A
Round of 16: defeated Krnjetin/Maurillio (Auburn) 8-0
Quarterfinals: lost to Kindervater/Mynemi (Alabama) 8-6
Roesch/Sakey - Flight B
Round of 16: defeated Farlow/Kuznetsov (Mississippi State) 8-4
Quarterfinals: defeated Boryachinskiy (Clemson)/Striplin (Alabama) 8-4
Semifinals: lost to Morgan Richard/Marc Rocafort (Middle Tennessee State) 9-8 (5)