Sept. 18, 2014
The University of Florida has released the singles and doubles draws for the SEC Fall Classic, which they are hosting in Gainesville, Florida from the 19th to the 22nd. Match play will begin at 9 a.m. every day except Saturday, which begins at 8 a.m. The Commodores will enter the event with 10 singles players and five doubles teams competing. Vanderbilt is home to the tournament’s No. 1 seed singles player, Gonzales (A.J.) Austin as well as the No. 1 seed doubles team, Austin and partner Rhys Johnson. After an impressive showing last weekend at the Southern Intercollegiate in Athens, the doubles pairing of Baker Newman and Ryan Smith were selected as the No. 7 seed in the field of 32. The top eight seeds in the singles draw are as follows: No. 1 A.J. Austin (Vanderbilt), No. 2 Shane Vinsant (Texas A&M), No. 3 Hunter Reese (Tennessee), No. 4 Andrew Adams (South Carolina), No. 5 Lukas Ollert (Auburn), No. 6 Florian Lakat (Mississippi State), No. 7 Jeremy Efferding (Texas A&M), and No. 8 Elliott Orkin (Florida).The top four seeds in the doubles draw are:No. 1 Austin/Johnson (Vanderbilt), No. 2 Szabo/Efferding (Texas A&M), No. 3 Lipman/Orkin (Florida), and No. 4 Hildalgo/Watson (Florida). Friday’s Schedule: SinglesGonzales Austin vs. Sunay Bhat (Tennessee) or Sam Swank (South Carolina)Jeffrey Offerdahl vs. Maxx Lipman (Florida)Daniel Valent vs. Jess Jones (Tennessee)Baker Newman vs. Igor Smelyanski (Tennessee)Kris Yee vs. Julian Cash (Mississippi State)Ryan Smith vs. Elliot Orkin (Florida)Rhys Johnson vs. Mate Cutura (Mississippi State)Suresh Eswaran vs. Jordan Szabo (Texas A&M)Tate Allwardt vs. Zvonimir Babic (Ole Miss)Pen Binet vs. Robin Haden (Mississippi State)* *-Winner advances to play No. 2 seed Shane Vincent (Texas A&M) in first round. Doubles Austin/Johnson vs. Terrell/Albanese (Arkansas)Eswaran/Valent vs. Vinsant/Catanzarti (Texas A&M)Offerdahl/Yee vs. Smelyanski/Dromsky (Tennessee)Allwardt/Binet vs. Lindmark/Jorge (Ole Miss)Newman/Smith vs. Gowda (Ole Miss)/Agarwal (Mississippi State)