Kentucky Trio to Compete at ITA All-American Championships

TULSA, Okla. – Three Kentucky males’s tennis members are set to take the court docket within the ITA All-American Championships, Oct. 3-9, because the nation’s high collegiate gamers do battle within the prestigious fall event.

Transfers Aladeya Ayeni (Cornell) and Taha Baadi (Wake Forest) be part of junior returnee Joshua Lapadat within the males’s singles draw for UK. Each Baadi and Lapadat will start their quest within the qualifying stage, whereas Ayeni has already earned a spot in the primary draw by way of his ITA Preseason Nationwide Rating of 27.

Qualifying motion will span Oct. 3-4 with the primary draw to comply with Oct. 5-9. The primary singles bracket will include 64 whole student-athletes – 48 computerized picks and 16 qualifiers. The qualifying draw options 128 gamers in all, a quantity which consists of 112 auto bids and 16 gamers from the pre-qualifying stage.

Lapadat and Baadi are every slated for his or her first matches on Monday. Baadi will face TCU’s Pedro Vives Marcos in his opening spherical match at 11:30 a.m. EDT, whereas Lapadat is scheduled to tackle Pierce Rollins of Texas A&M within the spherical of 128 at 1 p.m. EDT. The primary singles draw will probably be introduced previous to play starting on Oct. 5.

All out of doors courts will probably be streamed on Monitor Tennis, whereas Important Draw motion might be seen on Cracked Racquets’ YouTube web page.

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