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ITA All-American Tournament
Torpegaard Wins Consolation Bracket, Headed To NY – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/12/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Oct. 12, 2015
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TULSA, Okla. – Ohio State sophomore Mikael Torpegaard made the most of his second chance as he won the consolation bracket at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla. The win earns Torpegaard a spot in the ITA Intercollegiate National Championships next month in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
Monday’s final was a Big Ten Showdown between Torpegaard and Northwestern’s Sam Shropshipe. The two split a pair of meetings last year leading into what will likely be the first of a number of battles this year. Torpegaard got the first break of the match in the fifth game and took a 4-2 lead after his serve. Both players held serve from there and the Denmark native took the first set 6-4.
Shropshire got his first break at 3-1 in the second set but Torpegaard responded right back with a break of his own to get back on serve. It stayed that way until Torpegaard collected his third break of the contest to go ahead 5-4 and then held serve on love with a nice backhand winner down the line to win the set and the match 6-4.
Torpegaard never lost a set in his five victory-run through the consolation bracket. He shook off the disappointment of the opening round singles loss on Thursday and continued his run with doubles partner Herkko Pollanen. The two won their way through the qualifier and then advanced to the quarterfinals of the doubles draw before bowing out.
Next up for Torpegaard and the Buckeyes will be the ITA Midwest Regional Championships in South Bend, Ind., beginning on Oct. 22. Torpegaard enters the tournament as the defending singles champion as he claimed the title last year as a freshman.
Complete Ohio State Results
Oct. 3
PQ1 Riley Reist lost to Chris Schindler (Nebraska) 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-3
PQ1 Hunter Tubert lost to Amar Hromic (Buffalo) 6-4, 6-4
PQ1 Matt Mendez def. Augustus Ge (New Mexico) 6-3, 7-5
PQ1 Chuck Shewalter def. Robert Dula (Eastern Washington) 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
Oct. 4
PQ2 Chuck Shewalter lost to Jakob Amilon (UNLV) 6-4, 6-4
PQ2 Matt Mendez def. Trey Yates (Kentucky) 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-4
PQ3 Matt Mendez def. Gabor Csonka (LSU) 5-7, 7-6(4), 6-4
CPQ Riley Reist def. Reese Stalder (TCU) 6-3, 6-3
CPQ Hunter Tubert lost to Vikram Hundal (UNC Charlotte) 6-2, 6-1
Oct. 5
PQ4 Matt Mendez lost to Maksim Kan (Wake Forest) 6-1, 2-6, 6-1
Q1 Matt Mendez def. No. 88 David Biosca (ETSU) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
Q1 Martin Joyce lost to No. 81 Alexander Sendegeya (Texas Tech) 7-6(3), 6-4
QC Martin Joyce def. Andrei Morin Kougoucheff (Florida Atlantic) 6-2, 6-4
Q1 Ralf Steinbach lost to No. 109 Edoardo Tessaro (Virginia Tech) 6-3, 6-2
CQ Ralf Steinbach def. Sameer Kumar (Stanford) 7-6(3), 6-1
Q1 Hugo Di Feo def. No. 59 Jack Findel-Hawkins (North Florida) 7-6(3), 6-2
Q1 Herkko Pollanen lost to Michael Genender (Stanford) 7-5, 5-7, 6-4
CQ Herkko Pollanen def. Daniel Bednarczyk (Indiana) 6-4, 7-5
Oct. 6
Q2 Matt Mendez def. No. 111 Ben Wagland (Georgia) 7-6(3), 6-1
Q2 Hugo Di Feo def. Stjepan Sisko (Toledo) 6-0, 6-4
Q1 Mikael Torpegaard/Herkko Pollanen def. Jonathan Hammel/Tyler Pham (UC Irvine) w/d
Q1 Chris Diaz/Hugo Di Feo lost to Lucas Gerch/Jurence Mendoza (Oklahoma State) 6-4, 2-6, 1-0(5)
Oct. 7
Q3 Matt Mendez lost to No. 105 Robert Kelly (North Carolina) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5
Q3 Hugo Di Feo def. No. 86 Elliott Orkin (Florida) 6-3, 6-3
Q2 Mikael Torpegaard/Herkko Pollanen def. Julius Tverijonas/Danil Zelenkov (GW) 6-4, 6-2
Q3 Mikael Torpegaard/Herkko Pollanen def. Sebastian Rey-Constantin Schmitz (Tulane) 6-2, 6-4
Oct. 8
R64 Hugo Di Feo def. No. 33 Diego Hidalgo (Florida) 6-2, 7-5
R64 Chris Diaz def. No. 109 Edoardo Tessaro (Virginia Tech) 2-6, 5-7, 3-0 retire
R64 Mikael Torpegaard lost to No. 14 Ronnie Schneider (North Carolina) 6-4, 7-6 (5)
R32 Ralf Steinbach/Martin Joyce def. No. 20 Roberto Cid/Justin Roberts (South Florida) 6-4, 6-4
R32 Mikael Torpegaard/Herkko Pollanen def. No. 5 Skander Mansouri/Christian Seraphim (Wake Forest) 7-5, 6-4
Oct. 9
R32 Hugo Di Feo def. No. 75 Diogo Rocha (Denver) 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-0
R32 Chris Diaz def. No. 21 Or Ram-Harel (Tulsa) 7-5, 6-1
R16 Ralf Steinbach/Martin Joyce def. No. 1 Austin Smith/Ben Wagland (Georgia) 6-1, 6-2
R16 Mikael Torpegaard/Herkko Pollanen def. No. 17 Jordan Angus/Filip Vittek (San Diego) 6-4, 1-6, 1-0 (14-12)
C1 Mikael Torpegaard def. No. 105 Robert Kelly (North Carolina) 7-5, 6-1
Oct. 10
R16 Hugo Di Feo def. No. 42 Nick Crystal (Southern Cal) 6-3, 7-6 (4)
QF Hugo Di Feo lost to No. 10 Dominik Koepfer (Tulane) 3-6, 7-5, 6-0
R16 Chris Diaz lost to No. 30 Uros Petronijevic (San Diego) 6-3, 6-4
C2 Mikael Torpegaard def. No. 86 Elliott Orkin (Florida) 6-0, 6-3
C3 Mikael Torpegaard def. No. 45 Piotr Lomacki (Miami) 6-4, 6-2
QF Ralf Steinbach/Martin Joyce lost to No. 23 Diego Hidalgo/Gordon Watson (Florida) 7-5, 6-3
QF Mikael Torpegaard/Herkko Pollanen lost to No. 18 Brett Clark/Robert Kelly (North Carolina) 7-6 (4), 6-1
Oct. 11
C4 Mikael Torpegaard def. No. 17 Austin Smith, Georgia 6-4, 6-4
Oct. 12
CF Mikael Torpegaard def. No. 34 Sam Shropshire (Northwestern) 6-4, 6-4
