COLLEGE STATION – The Texas A&M men's tennis team sent a collection of players down the road to Houston for the Rice Fall Invitational along with a host of players headed to Florida for the prestigious SEC Fall Classic, hosted by the University of Florida.
“This is a great opportunity for our team to get some valuable competition early in the fall,” Texas A&M head coach Steve Denton said. “I know our guys are excited to get rolling. This type of event is great as we get to gauge just how much work our players put in this summer and we need to focus on going
forward.”
A pair of Aggies were seeded in the singles bracket in Gainesville, junior Shane Vinsant was seeded No. 2 and senior Jeremy Efferding was seeded No. 7. Efferding will face Stefan Lindmark of Ole Miss, while Vinsant will await the winner of the play-in match between Robin Haden of Mississippi State and Pen Binet of Vanderbilt.
Freshman AJ Catanzariti will play his first action in the A&M uniform against Luis Valero of Tennessee and sophomore Frankie Colunga looks to continue his impressive fall start against Chase Perez-Blanco of the host-Gators squad. Senior Jordan Szabo looks to start his fall season with a win against Suresh Eswaran of Vanderbilt. Sophomore Max Lunkin rounds out the A&M singles players against Johan Den Toom of Arkansas.
Vinsant and Catanzariti will partner up to face Eswaran and Daniel Valent of Vanderbilt, Colunga and Lunkin face Lukas Ollert and Dante Saleh of Auburn and second-seeded 37th ranked Szabo and Efferding will play Thomas Mayronne and Harrison O'Keefe of South Carolina.
Senior Max Montague leads off the maroon and white contingent in the Bayou City facing Andrew Dzulnsky from Nebraska while redshirt-freshman Jett Cash will face off against third-seeded Jamie Malik of Rice. Montague and Cash will team up to face Adam Gustafsson and Max Andrews of Rice in the doubles draw.
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