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Oct. 16, 1999
AUSTIN, Texas – University of Virginia third year tennis player BrianVahaly (Atlanta, Ga./The Lovett School) won two singles matches on Saturdayto advance to the semifinals of the 1999 Reebok/Intercollegiate TennisAssociation (ITA) Men’s All-American Championships at the Penick-AllisonTennis Center at the University of Texas. Vahaly and third year HuntleyMontgomery (Chapel Hill, N.C./Chapel Hill) lost in the quarterfinals of theAll-American Doubles Championship on Saturday.
Vahaly, the sixth seed in the singles tournament and ninth ranked player bythe ITA, defeated South Carolina’s Guillaume Legat in the third round 6-4,6-1 on Saturday morning to advance to the quarterfinals. In thequarterfinals, Vahaly posted a 6-2, 6-2 triumph over Tennessee’s MarkParsons. In the semifinals on Sunday, Vahaly will square off againstfourth seeded Michal Chmela of LSU for the right to play for the 1999All-American Singles Championship. The two have already played one anotherthis week as Vahaly and Montgomery ousted Chmela and Daniel Kiernan in theround of 16 of the doubles tournament 6-4, 7-5.
In doubles play, fourth-seeded Vahaly and Montgomery lost to David Hodgeand Mark Williams of Baylor 6-4, 7-6 (6) in quarterfinal action on Saturdayafternoon.
In the consolation singles bracket, Montgomery won a pair of matches toadvance to Sunday’s semifinals. In the third round on Saturday morning,Montgomery defeated Alex Osterieth of Arizona State 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. Inquarterfinal action, Montgomery posted a 6-4, 6-3 win over Illinois’ CaryFranklin. He will play Florida’s Justin O’Neal in the consolationsemifinals on Sunday.
The Reebok/ITA Men’s All-American Championships, the second leg of the ITAGrand Slam, is the nation’s largest NCAA Division I tennis tournament withover 350 competitors. Prequalifying began on October 9. The Championshipsconsists of a 64-player singles and a 32-team doubles main draw October14-18. The singles draw features 48 players who received automatic berthsinto the main draw and 16 survivors from the qualifying tournament heldOctober 12-13. Six doubles teams advanced to the main draw from thequalifying tournament, which also took place October 12-13.