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ITA All-American Championships
Men’s Tennis Travels to Tulsa for ITA All-American Championships
9/30/2022 | Men's Tennis
Singles and Doubles Competition to Take Place Oct. 1-9 at the University of Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. – Ole Miss men's tennis continues their busy fall season with the team trekking to Tulsa for the annual ITA All-American Championships, which are set to run Oct. 1-9.
A trio of Rebels are set to make the trip and compete for Ole Miss on the week, with Nikola Slavic, Lukas Engelhardt and John Hallquist Lithén all earning spots in the overall tournament draw. Slavic and Engelhardt will each compete in singles and doubles play, while Lithén will only participate in singles.
The individual tournament hosted at the University of Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center will consist of both singles and doubles brackets, with singles including pre-qualifying, qualifying and main draws while doubles will consist of just qualifying and main draws.
| TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE |
Saturday, October 1 – Pre-Qualifying Draw Singles
Sunday, October 2 – Pre-Qualifying Draw Singles
Monday, October 3 – Qualifying Draw Singles/Doubles
Tuesday, October 4 – Qualifying Draw Singles/Doubles
Wednesday, October 5 – Singles Round of 64/Doubles Round of 32
Thursday, October 6 – Singles Round of 32/Doubles Round of 16
Friday, October 7 – Singles Round of 16 and Quarterfinals/Doubles Quarterfinals
Saturday, October 8 – Singles Semifinals/Doubles Semifinals
Sunday, October 9 – Singles Final/Doubles Final
| THE REBELS |
Nikola Slavic (Sr.*) – Stockholm, Sweden
- Competing in Singles Main Draw and Doubles Qualifying Draw
- Finished 2021-22 with a singles record of 22-13 and doubles record of 18-8
- Enters the 2022 fall season ranked a career-high No. 6 in the country in singles
- Received an ITA preseason doubles ranking of No. 46 overall
- Named 2022 ITA All-American in singles play
- 2021 ITA Southern Regional Singles Champion
Lukas Engelhardt (Sr.*) – Augsburg, Germany
- Competing in Singles Pre-Qualifying Draw and Doubles Qualifying Draw
- Earned first ranked win of 2022-23 season against No. 89 Jan Galka (Florida) at Commodore Invite
- Finished 2021-22 with 19-12 singles record and 19-13 doubles record
- Enters 2022 fall season ranked No. 46 in doubles by the ITA
- Reached peak doubles ranking of No. 2 overall in spring of 2022
John Hallquist Lithén (Jr.) – Gothenburg, Sweden
- Competing in Singles Qualifying Draw and listed as alternate for Doubles Qualifying Draw
- Finished with 3-1 singles record at Commodore Invitational, earning two ranked singles wins
- Concluded 2021-22 with record of 18-16 in singles and 20-9 in doubles
- Earned career-high doubles ranking of No. 24 overall at conclusion of 2021 fall season
- Saw a peak ITA singles ranking of No. 98 in spring of 2022
Walker Stearns (So.) – Germantown, Tenn.
- Listed as alternate for Singles Pre-Qualifying Draw and Doubles Qualifying Draw
- Ended his freshman campaign with singles record of 7-6 and doubles record of 1-2
- TSSAA Div. II-A Singles Champion in 2021 and 2019
- TSSAA Div. II-A Doubles Champion in 2018
- Former four-star recruit by Tennis Recruiting coming out of high school
Gordon Whitwell (Fr.) – Oxford, Miss.
- Listed as alternate for Singles Pre-Qualifying Draw
- Earned his first collegiate singles win at Commodore Invitational with 6-1, 6-3 win over Paul Wang (Vanderbilt)
- Four-star recruit by Tennis Recruiting coming out of high school
- Two-time team state champion with Oxford High School
- No. 1 recruit from Mississippi and No. 115 recruit in the U.S. for 2022
| TOP SEEDS |
Singles
1. Stefan Dostanic (USC)
2. Cannon Kingsley (Ohio State)
3. Iñaki Montes de la Torre (Virginia)
4. Luc Fomba (TCU)
5. Nikola Slavic (Ole Miss)
6. Chris Rodesch (Virginia)
7. JJ Tracy (Ohio State)
8. Tyler Stice (Auburn)
9. Alex Kotzen (Columbia)
10. Brian Cernoch (North Carolina)
Doubles
1. Luc Fomba/Pedro Vives (TCU)
2. Stefan Dostanic/Bradley Frye (USC)
3. Sander Jong/Lui Maxted (TCU)
4. Charles Bertimon/Maxence Bertimon (VCU)
5. Joshua Charlton/Quinn Vandecasteele (Oregon)
| LIVE SCORING/VIDEO |
Live scoring and video options will be made available by the ITA for the entirety of the week for both singles and doubles play in Tulsa. Links to scoring and video will be on the tournament info page (linked above) or on the Ole Miss men's tennis schedule page as soon as they are made available to the public.
| FALL SLATE |
With the conclusion of the ITA All-American Championships, the Rebels will approach the halfway point of the team's five-tournament fall schedule. The team will then head to the University of Alabama for this year's installment of the ITA Southern Championships (Oct. 13-18) in Tuscaloosa. The Rebels' fall season then concludes with a doubleheader weekend consisting of the Georgia Tech Invitational (Nov. 4-6) in Atlanta and the ITA National Fall Championships (Nov. 2-6) in San Diego.
| REBELS OPEN THE SEASON IN NASHVILLE |
The Rebels kicked off their 2022 fall season just a week ago when the team traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, for the Commodore Invitational hosted at Vanderbilt University. Following three days of play, the Rebels capped off their weekend with an overall singles record of 5-11 and overall doubles record of 1-5. Junior John Hallquist Lithén saw the best individual performance of the weekend for Ole Miss, ending his time in Nashville going 3-1 in singles play and 1-2 in doubles play, including snagging two ranked singles wins over the No. 59 and No. 91 ranked players in the country.
| THE RETURN OF AN ALL-AMERICAN |
Senior Nikola Slavic returns for his fourth season with Ole Miss men's tennis after putting together a season for the history books in 2021-22 for the Rebels. Coming off of a year in which he finished with a singles record of 22-13 en route to being named the 32nd All-American in program history, Slavic now enters the 2022-23 season ranked a career-high No. 6 in the country in the ITA's preseason singles polls. This fall Slavic will aim to defend his title of 2021 ITA Southern Regional Singles Champion, after Slavic became just the fourth Rebel in program history to ever win an ITA Regional in singles play last fall.
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