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Duke's Saras Arasu Advances in Prequalifying of Riviera All-American
10/7/2001 1:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Oct. 7, 2001
LOS ANGELES, calif. - Duke freshman Saras Arasu advanced through the prequalifying rounds of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Riviera All-American on Saturday and Sunday by winning three matches on the campus of UCLA.
The freshman native of Tampa, Fla., defeated Gyorgui Zsiros of UNLV (6-1, 6-7, 7-6), Charlote Vernaz of Pepperdine (6-2, 6-1) and Erin Hoe of Washington (6-1, 6-1) to advance to qualifying.
The Riviera All-American is the toughest hardcourt event of the fall collegiate season with a field that features the top 10 ranked singles players in the preseason edition of the ITA rankings. The tournament will take a day off on Monday to travel to Pacific Palisades, Calif. for the qualifying rounds on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Riviera Tennis Club. The main draw will be Oct. 11-14 at Riviera.
Other Blue Devils competing in the prequalifying singles action were junior Hillary Adams (New York, N.Y.) who won her first and second round matches before falling in the third round to Jessica Rush of Northwestern (4-6, 3-6). Adams defeated Bernadette Bayani of Southern California (6-4, 7-6) and Leah Killen (3-6, 6-3, 6-3) of Texas A&M in the first two rounds. Freshman Susie Abromeit (Boca Raton, Fla.) knocked off Eva Brusiecka of Fresno State (6-0, 6-7, 6-1) before falling to Sekita Grant of California (7-5, 5-7, 1-6).
Duke's doubles team of Adams and junior Olga Gvozdenovic (Glenview, Ill.) lost in the first round of prequalifying to Karlikova/Spencer (5-8) from Texas A&M.
The Blue Devils have three other singles players remaining and will play in the main draw beginning Oct. 11--sophomore Amanda Johnson (Bettendorf, Iowa), freshman Kelly McCain (Wesley Chapel, Fla.) and junior Julie DeRoo (Ecully, France).
In other doubles action, the duos McCain/DeRoo and Johnson/Abromeit will each begin play in the qualifying round on Tuesday.
The Blue Devils boast three ranked singles players-- Johnson (No. 9), DeRoo (No. 21) and McCain (No. 49). In doubles, Duke has two duos ranked-- Johnson/Abromeit (No. 30) and McCain/DeRoo (No. 37).
During the season, the ITA hosts three national collegiate championships with the Riviera All-American being the first one of the season. The second is the Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in Dallas and the final is the NCAA Championships.
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