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SIU's Soswa Reaches C Final At Louisville Invitational
10/08/2001 | 12:00:00 | Men's Tennis
Oct. 7, 2001
Louisville, Ky. - Lukasz Soswa, a freshman at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, reached the Flight C final and Richard Booth, Julian Angel Botero and Alon Savidor each reached the quarterfinals at the Louisville Invitational on Sunday, October 7 in Louisville, Kentucky.
"Our team has improved so much. It was a good tournament. We are pleased as a group but want to do better. Four out of the five players beat seeded players and we were 12-8 overall at a tournament with five ranked teams," said Missy Jeffrey, Saluki head coach.
"Lukasz (Soswa) was impressive going 4-1 to reach the finals and he's a freshman playing at his first big tournament."
Soswa lost the final to Evansville's Derrick Boland 6-1, 6-1. He won four matches on the way, beating Zak Breneman of IUPUI (6-4, 6-3), Luis Arguello of Evansville (6-3, 7-6 (7)), Bhavesh Chadda of Southern Indiana (6-2, 6-4) and Yi Hsieh of St. Louis (6-3, 7-5).
Savidor and Booth advanced to the quarterfinals in the Flight B singles while Botero reached the C quarterfinals.
Booth beat Reid Strand of Indiana (7-5, 6-3) and Gustavo Anzola of Tennessee-Martin (6-2, 6-1) before falling in the B quarterfinal to Clemens Klein of Evansville (6-3, 4-6, 6-3).
Savidor beat Chris Crawford of Southern Indiana (6-2, 7-6 (7)) and #1 seed Matt Mayer of Louisville (7-5, 4-6, 6-2) before falling in the quarterfinal to Matt Laramore of Ball State (7-6 (4), 6-4, 7-5).
Botero defeated Lucas Tregansin of Tennessee-Martin (6-3, 6-3) and Joey Turner of Wright State (6-2, 6-3) before losing in the C quarterfinal to Todd Wojtkowski of Toledo (3-6, 6-4, 6-0).
In other matches, the doubles team of Alon Savidor and Botero beat Becker and Mas of IUPUI (8-2) before being beaten by Camper and Grombacher of Wright State (8-0).
Peter Bong lost his opening A singles match to Zach Held of Indiana (5-7, 6-2, 6-3), beat Alex Moyem of Murray State in consolation play by default before he was eliminated by Chad Derry of Wright State (6-4, 6-3).
Bong and Booth lost their opening A doubles match to Sivertsen and Mayer of Louisville 8-5.
SIU will wrap up the fall tennis season at the ITA Mid-American Regionals in Wichita, Kansas on October 17-22.
