June 14, 2011
BOCA RATON, FL - The 2011 NCAA men's tennis doubles champions from Texas A&M, Jeff Dadamo (pronounced duh-DOM-oh) and Austin Krajicek (pronounced CRY-check), have been named to the USTA Pro Tour Transition Camp being held in Boca Raton, Florida, at the USTA Training Center Headquarters, June 10-15.
The Aggie duo, both Florida natives, finished off a tremendous collegiate career by winning five straight matches at the NCAA Championships at Stanford in May to win the first NCAA national championship for Aggie tennis. The dynamic duo had won the USTA/ITA Indoor National Doubles crown held in Flushing, New York, in the fall of 2010.
Mark Merklein, the USTA National Coach, is conducting the training camp for the top junior and collegiate players. Texas A&M and Tennessee are the only schools to have two players represented.
In addition to Dadamo and Krajicek, the other top collegiate players selected include: Chase Buchanan (Ohio State), Evan King (Michigan), Bradley Klahn (Stanford), Dennis Nevolo (Illinois), Eric Quigley (Kentucky), Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee), Ray Sarmiento (USC), Michael Shabaz (Virginia) and Rhyne Williams (Tennessee).
Dadamo and Krajicek helped the Aggie team finished the season with a school-record 29-6 record in dual matches and reached the Sweet 16 in the NCAA men's team championships. The Aggies ended the season ranked No. 10 in the final ITA national rankings. The Aggie squad won the Big 12 Championship Tournament and the A&M seniors passed the racquet to the returning members of the team along with a school-record 36 straight dual matches at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station.