TULSA, Okla. – The Blue Devil duo of junior
Sean Sculley and senior
Nick Stachowiak earned a spot in the semifinals of the doubles main draw at the 2019 Saint Francis Health System ITA All-American Championships Friday.
Sculley and Stachowiak rattled off their eighth consecutive win as a doubles pair, dispatching Southern California's 28th-ranked duo of Bradley Frye and Riley Smith in Friday's quarterfinals, 6-4, 6-4.
With the win, Sculley and Stachowiak move on to the tournament semifinals, becoming the first Blue Devil tandem to reach that round in the ITA All-Americans main draw since
Reid Carleton and
Henrique Cunha in 2010.
The doubles semifinals are slated for Saturday at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa. Sculley and Stachowiak will face the sixth-ranked doubles team in the country in Columbia's Jack Lin and Jackie Tang.
SINGLES
Qualifying Round of 128
No. 59
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. Niklas Gerdes (UT-Chattanooga) 6-1, 6-2
Qualifying Round of 64
No. 59
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. Ilgiz Valiev (Texas Tech) 6-4, 6-1
Qualifying Round of 32
No. 79 Zeke Clark (Illinois) def. No. 59
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) 6-4, 6-2
Pre-Qualifying Round of 256
Samuel Rubell (Duke) def. Tyler Stice (Auburn) 7-6 (6), 6-3
Garrett Johns (Duke) def. Tom Moonen (Middle Tennessee State) 6-3, 6-4
Edu Güell (Duke) def. Eric Samuelsson (UNLV) 6-3, 0-1 (ret.)
Andrew Zhang (Duke) def. Trice Pickens (Northwestern) 7-6 (1), 6-3
Robert Cash (Ohio State) def.
Omni Kumar (Duke) 6-2, 6-2
Pre-Qualifying Round of 128
Makey Rakotomalala (Arizona State) def.
Sean Sculley (Duke) 6-4, 6-0
Samuel Rubell (Duke) def. Malik Bhatnagar (LSU) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
Simon Junk (Ole Miss) def.
Garrett Johns (Duke) 6-4, 6-4
Corrado Summaria (Pepperdine) def.
Edu Güell (Duke) 6-1, 6-3
Andrew Zhang (Duke) def. Guido Marson (Texas A&M) 6-2, 7-6 (4)
Pre-Qualifying Round of 64
Chase Wood (Florida State) def.
Samuel Rubell (Duke) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
Connor Thomson (South Carolina) def.
Andrew Zhang (Duke) 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-2
DOUBLES
Main Draw First Round
Sean Sculley/
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. No. 26 Andrea Bolla/Tim Ruehl (Arizona State) 6-0, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7)
Main Draw Round of 16
Sean Sculley/
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. No. 9 Charlie Broom/David Horneffer (Dartmouth) 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (10-7)
Main Draw Quarterfinals
Sean Sculley/
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. No. 28 Bradley Frye/Riley Smith (USC) 6-4, 6-4
Qualifying Round of 64
Sean Sculley/
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. Davis Lawley/Abdoul Ouattara (Omaha) 6-2, 6-1
Qualifying Round of 32
Sean Sculley/
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. Austen Huang/Alex Kotzen (Columbia) 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-4)
Qualifying Round of 16
Sean Sculley/
Nick Stachowiak (Duke) def. No. 53 Justin Boulais/James Trotter (Ohio State) 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-2)
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