CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's tennis team will host the best players in the region this weekend at the ITA Super Regionals.  Of the 32 players who qualified from the northeast, an outstanding 11 of them hail from Harvard.  The finalists in the singles and doubles brackets at the end of the weekend will secure their bids to the ITA Fall Nationals in San Diego, CA on November 3-6.

Andrew Rueb, The Scott Mead '77 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Tennis, The James Herscot '58 Coach of Excellence says, "We are excited to host the first Super Regionals at the Beren Tennis Center. To have the best 32 players in the Northeast competing on our courts will make for an amazing weekend of tennis. This will be the best tennis in New England and you won't want to miss the action. 

Tournament schedule

Friday, October 21 – Day 1
10:30 a.m. – Doubles Matches (Round of 16)
11:30 a.m. – Singles Matches (Round of 32)
 
Saturday, October 22 – Day 2
10:30 a.m. – Doubles Matches (Quarterfinals and Consolation)
12:00 p.m. – Singles Matches (Round of 16 and Consolation)
 
Sunday, October 23 – Day 3
10:30 a.m. – Doubles Matches (Semifinals)
1:00 p.m. – Singles Matches (Quarterfinals and Consolation)
 
Monday, October 24 – Day 4
TBD – Doubles Final
TBD – Singles Semifinals and Finals

Harvard Schedule - Day 1

10:30 - Jachuck/Milavsky vs Bianchi/Motlaugh (Boston College)
             Sun/Delloye vs. Olive-Blanco/Shah (Fairfield)
11:00 - von der Schulenburg/Walker vs. Palta/Ruger (Columbia)
Not before 11:30 - von der Schulenburg vs. Reilly (Yale)
                                 Delloye vs. Dean (Yale)
                                 Ktiri vs. Peters (Princeton)
                                 Yim vs. Melnic (Cornell)
                                 Lins vs. Graziani (Penn)
                                 Pape vs. Peters (Princeton) 
Not before 12:30 - Jachuck vs. Sec (Princeton)
                                 Milavsky vs. Sun (Yale)
                                 Walker vs. Komatineni (Brown)
                                 Thornton vs. Gupta (Penn)
                                 Perera vs. Marques (St. Johns)

What to know

• Henry von der Schulenburg, Harris Walker, Daniel Milavsky, and Ronan Jachuck all automatically qualified based on the national and regional rankings. 
• David Lins, Alan Yim, Melchior Delloye, Masato Perera, and Valdemar Pape all earned qualifying bids at the ITA Northeast Regionals on October 7-10 but advancing to the round of 16.
• Lins, Yim, Delloye, Perera, and Pape went a combined 15-0 at the ITA Northeast Regionals to receive bids. 
• Harvard receives two host wildcard bids.  Those spots will be filled by Marc Ktiri and Elisha Thornton.
• The Crimson will be represented in the doubles bracket by the pairs of Jachuck and Milavsky, von der Schulenburg and Walker, and Delloye and Steven Sun
• The Crimson have taken down 11 ranked opponents so far this fall.

How to follow

Singles and Doubles Draw Results
Stretch – Live Stream
Harvard Men's Tennis Instagram
Harvard Men's Tennis Twitter
Harvard Men's Tennis Facebook

Next up

The men will continue their time at home as they host their Crimson Halloween Invite inside the Murr Center October 28-30.