DIII Singles & Doubles Bracket

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Emory University sophomores Antonio Mora (Miami, FL) and Andrew Esses (Houston, TX), along with junior Will Wanner (Lancaster, PA), will represent the Emory men's tennis program this week at the ITA Cup.  The event, held at the Rome (GA) Tennis Center begins on Thursday (Oct. 17) and runs through Sunday.  The ITA Cup is formerly the Small College Championships.

The ITA Cup includes the singles and doubles champions from each of the nine ITA regional championships who received automatic bids to the ITA Cup. In addition the singles and doubles finalists from the Central, Midwest, Northeast, New England, South, Southeast &West all received automatic bids to the ITA Cup.

Each of the four divisional singles champions (Divisions II, III, NAIA and JUCO) will be automatically entered in the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, which takes place at the Tennis Club at Newport Beach Country Club in Newport Beach, California, Nov. 6-10.

Mora and Esses will be competing in the D-III singles bracket with Mora opening on Thursday morning at 9:00 against Jack Katzman of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps while Esses will matchup against Boris Sorkin of Tufts.  Mora played his way into this weekend's action after winning the ITA South Region Singles title, topping Esses in the finals. The victor of the Mora/Katzman encounter advances to a Thursday afternoon bout against either Vishnu Joshi of Johns Hopkins or Cameron Krimbill of Trinity University (TX).  Whoever emerges in the Esses/Sorkin affair will face either Matthew Michibata (TCNJ) or Andraneel Raut (Gustavus Adolphus).

In doubles, Mora and Wanner begin the competition playing the Hobart tandem of Walker Anderson and Alan Dubrovsky on Thursday in a scheduled 4:30 pm start. The Emory duo posted a first-place finish at the ITA South Region Doubles Championship,
defeating Aditya Iyer and Roberto Puig of North Carolina Wesleyan in the finals.

Men's doubles will still take part and compete for the ITA Cup, with the winners of those draws moving on to the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships.

The ITA Cup has history dating back to 1986, and it is the only singles and doubles national championship event for the Division II and NAIA levels. This year, more than 8,000 players took part in a total of 60 regional tournaments to gain entry into the ITA Cup field.