Oct. 11, 2007

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Gamecock Fall Invitational Tournament Webpage
UPDATED FRIDAY DRAW SHEETS

The University of South Carolina men’s tennis team will host the USC Fall Invitational this weekend, Oct. 12-14, in Columbia. More than 200 players representing 36 schools will participate in the event. Play begins at 9 a.m. on Friday and continues through the weekend. Flight finals are slated for Sunday afternoon.

The Invitational will feature seven singles flights and six doubles flights and matches will be played at four locations in Columbia – the Gamecock men’s team’s Sam Daniel Tennis Facility, the Maxcy-Gregg Tennis Center, the Columbia Tennis Center and the USC Indoor Courts.

Eight Gamecocks will compete in the event.

In the A-1 singles bracket is the No 2 seed Pedro Campos, followed by No. 4 Ivan Cressoni, Johannes Pulsfort and David Wolff in the A-2 singles flight. Completing the USC singles competitors is Thomas Stoddard, Joe Veedeer and Chris Sheehan in the B-1 flight.

In the doubles competition, No. 3 Campos and Cressoni will join forces in the A-1 flight along with the team of Pulsfort and Jamie Cuellar. Wolff and Stoddard and Vedeer and Sheehan will compete in the B-1 doubles flight for the Gamecocks.

South Carolina’s complete Day-1 schedule follows:
A-1 Singles: Sam Daniel’s Tennis Facility
(2) Campos vs. Robertson (Jacksonville State)

A-2 Singles: Columbia Tennis Center
Wolff vs. Veeder (Gardner Webb)
(4) Cressoni vs. Boyer (College of Charleston)
Pulsfort vs. Suigelj (South Florida)

B-1 Singles: Columbia Tennis Center
Stoddard vs. Langer (South Carolina State)
Sheehan vs. Myers (College of Charleston)
Veeder vs. Rocha (Belmont)

A-1 Doubles: Sam Daniel’s Tennis Facility
(3) Campos-Cressoni vs. Defazio-Galloway (Clemson)
Pulsfort-Cuellar vs. Axente-Bouabdellah (UTC)

B-1 Doubles: Columbia Tennis Center
Sheehan-Veeder vs. Assuncao-Pakebusch (Anderson)
Stoddard-Wolff vs. Lebedev-Spinazze (Arkansas)

The complete list of participating schools is below:
UAB
Armstrong Atlantic State
Anderson
Arkansas
Auburn
Benedict
Belmont
Charleston Southern
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
College of Charleston
East Tennessee State
Erskine
Francis Marion
Gardner-Webb
Georgia Tech
Jacksonville State
Lander
Louisville
UNC-Asheville
UNC-Charlotte
UNC-Wilmington
Pfeiffer
Presbyterian
South Carolina State
The Citadel
South Carolina
South Carolina-Aiken
South Carolina-Upstate
South Florida
Temple
Chattanooga
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Winthrop
Wofford