Rinderknech and Withrow Advance to NCAA Semifinals

TULSA, Olka. – Texas A&M Men's Tennis' Jackson Withrow and Arthur Rinderknech continued their impressive run at the 2016 NCAA Doubles Championship Saturday afternoon in Tulsa, Okla. The A&M tandem topped No. 13 Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim of Wake Forest in their third match in as many days.
 
The singles and doubles competition is being held May 25-30 at the Case Tennis Center, hosted by the University of Tulsa.
 
No. 8 Rinderknech and Withrow advanced to face No. 63 Rogerio Ribiero and David Biosca East Tennessee State Sunday at 6p.m.. The Maroon & White clad duo improved to 15-5 on the season following Saturday's 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (6) victory and are now a team-best 8-5 against ranked foes. The win was Rinderknech and Withrow's third-straight ranked victory following their highest-ranked career triumph in Thursday's opening round, having defeated No. 4 Lucas Corinteli and Ryan Shane of Virginia in the opening round. The second round saw the A&M pair best No. 12 Hugo Dojas and Felipe Soares of Texas Tech in three sets.

The duo earned All-America status for advancing to the NCAA Doubles Quarterfinals. The honor is the first of Rinderknech's collegiate career and the third for Withrow. The Nebraskan earned doubles honors alongside Junior Ore during his sophomore and junior campaigns. 
 
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Complete NCAA tournament brackets, schedules, results and links to live scoring and video are available on the Championship Central page: http://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2016/3/25/2016-ncaa-mens-and-womens-tennis-championships-schedule.aspx
 
 
 
2016 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships Results
Singles First Round
No. 52 Shane Vinsant (TAMU) def. No. 7 Christopher Eubanks (GT), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
 
Singles Second Round
No. 16 Jaren Hiltzik (ILL) def. No. 52 Shane Vinsant (TAMU) 6-4, 6-2
 
Doubles First Round
No. 8 Jackson Withrow & Arthur Rinderknech (TAMU) def. No. 4 Ryan Shane & Luca Corinteli (UVA) 6-2, 6-4
 
Doubles Second Round
No. 8 Jackson Withrow & Arthur Rinderknech (TAMU) def. No 12 Hugo Dojas & Felipe Soared (TT) 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (11)

Doubles Quarterfinal
No. 8 Arthur Rinderknech-Jackson Withrow (TAMU) def. No13 Skander Mansouri-Christian Seraphim (WF), 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (6) 
 
NCAA Doubles Semifinals
No. 8 Arthur Rinderknech-Jackson Withrow (TAMU) vs. No. 63 Rogerio Ribiero-David Biosca (ETSU)
Sunday, 6 pm.        
 
2016 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships Quotes
Arthur Rinderknech, Texas A&M Sophomore
On did they expect to make it to the semifinals before the tournament started…
"We know that we are a good team. We are just believing in ourselves and trying to take it match by match. We just want to make it as far as we can in the tournament."
 
On his match today and their opponent…
"Obviously, today we played pretty bad. We played bad the first two sets, which didn't happen in the first two rounds. We started to fight back in the second set and we began to feel a little bit better. I think we played a really good tiebreaker which really made the difference."
 
Jackson Withrow, Texas A&M Senior
On expectations of making it this far in the tournament…
"Arthur and I haven't played for about two months together. We took a break trying to get our doubles point for the team event, and we really focused these last two weeks of trying to get back to how we played before we got separated. I think we are the 8th ranked doubles team in the country and we didn't get seeded, and so I think that we believe we can be here. Hopefully we can keep advancing."