Updated Big Easy Classic Brackets
NEW ORLEANS -
Vinay Kamineni and
Rui Silva led a charge of six University of New Orleans players reaching the finals of their respective brackets at the Big Easy Classic on Saturday at the University Tennis Center.
Kamineni defeated South Alabama's Cody Hall 6-2, 6-2 to set up a Flight 2 final against Hall's teammate Blake Gregor. Silva won in straight sets over Coby Kramer of Tulane and Nicholls' Manel Estruege to create a match-up against in the Flight 3 championship match against Siddarth Sivakumar of NSU.
In addition to the main draw championship match qualifiers, four members of the UNO roster qualified for consolation finals.
Hossam Meligy and
Guillermo Aylon reached the consolation finals of Flight 2 and Flight 3, respectively. Aylon could face Privateer teammate
Lovro Curcija, who awaits a semifinal match against NSU's Evan Karatzas.
Rounding out the group of consolation championship match qualifiers are
Kristina Martic in Flight 1 and Soledad Arroyo in Flight 2. Martic's opponent remains to be determined with Arroyo set to battle Viktoria Kozachuk of Alcorn State.
Three UNO doubles' teams advanced to Sunday's semifinals including 2012 ITA All-Americans
Ricardo Campos and Meligy. They are joined by Kamineni and
Abdelrahman Zaki with both pairs set to face foes from I-10 rival USA.
The only Privateer team still standing in the women's draw is
Fanny Benincasa and
Marta Sans, who will meet a duo from Southern Illinois in their quest to advance to the championship match.
Play continues on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. with anticipation of concluding play by the early afternoon.
SATURDAY'S RESULTS
Men's Flight 1 Semifinals
Daniel Leitner (South Alabama) def.
Abdelrahman Zaki (New Orleans) 6-0, 6-0
Shayann Vaezzadeh (South Alabama) def.
Ricardo Campos (New Orleans) 7-5, 6-3
Men's Flight 2 Semifinals
Vinay Kamineni (New Orleans) def. Cody Hall (South Alabama) 6-2, 6-2
Men's Flight 3 Quarterfinals
Rui Silva (New Orleans) def. Coby Kramer (Tulane) 6-2, 6-3
Men's Flight 3 Semifinals
Rui Silva (New Orleans) def. Manel Estruege (Nicholls State) 6-4, 6-2
Men's Flight 2 Consolation Quarterfinals
Hossam Meligy (New Orleans) def. Iain Sneddon (Tulane) 6-3, 6-0
Men's Flight 2 Consolation Semifinals
Hossam Meligy (New Orleans) def. Viktor Svoboda (Xavier (La.)) 7-6, 7-6
Men's Flight 3 Consolation Round of 16
Lovro Curcija (New Orleans) def. Max Tkachenko (Alcorn State) 6-0, 1-0, retired
Evan Karatzas (Nicholls State) def.
David Malmgren (New Orleans) 3-6, 7-5, 6-1
Men's Flight 3 Consolation Quarterfinals
Guillermo Aylon (New Orleans) def. Joshua Laviolette (Loyola (New Orleans)) 6-0, 6-0
Men's Flight 3 Consolation Semifinals
Guillermo Aylon (New Orleans) def. Jan Hellmich (South Alabama) 6-0, 6-2
Men's Doubles 'Round of 16'
Shayann Vaezzadeh/Blake Gregor (South Alabama) def.
David Malmgren/
Rui Silva (New Orleans) 8-1
Garry Amor/Alexandr Lidzar (Alcorn State) def.
Sebastian Salazar/
Guillermo Aylon (New Orleans) 8-5
Ricardo Campos/
Hossam Meligy (New Orleans) def. Etham Frankel/Coby Kramer (Tulane) 8-3
Nikita Soifer/Viktor Svoboda (Xavier (La.)) def.
Daniel Populus/
Dominik Kardell (New Orleans) 8-2
Men's Doubles Quarterfinals
Shayann Vaezzadeh/Blake Gregor (South Alabama) def.
Lovro Curcija/
Christoffer Appelgren (New Orleans) 8-5
Ricardo Campos/
Hossam Meligy (New Orleans) def. Tony Benjamin/Joshua Laviolette (Loyola (New Orleans)) 8-2
Abdelrahman Zaki/
Vinay Kamineni (New Orleans) def. Nikita Soifer/Viktor Svoboda (Xavier (La.)) 9-8
Women's Flight 2 Semifinals
Candela Munoz-Giron (Troy) def.
Fanny Benincasa (New Orleans) 6-0, 6-2
Women's Flight 1 Consolation Semifinals
Kristina Martic (New Orleans) def. Brionne Flowers (Xavier (La.)) 6-2, 6-2
Women's Flight 2 Consolation Semifinals
Soledad Arroyo (New Orleans) def. Kersten Vanem (Alcorn State) 6-4, 6-1
Women's Flight 3 Consolation Quarterfinals
Jordyn Goody (Xavier (La.)) def. Victoria Svennson (New Orleans) 7-5, 6-2
Abigal Plecki (Southern Illinois) def. Paula Sanchez (New Orleans) 6-1, 6-0
Women's Doubles Quarterfinals
Parija Maloo/Marie Aubert (Nicholls) def.
Kristina Martic/Soledad Arroyo (New Orleans) 8-6
Fanny Benincasa/
Marta Sans (New Orleans) def. Catherine Gauthier/Marina Ljoshevska (Nicholls) 8-1
SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE
Men's Flight 2 Championship
Vinay Kamineni (New Orleans) vs. Blake Gregor (South Alabama)
Men's Flight 3 Championship
Rui Silva (New Orleans) vs. Siddarth Sivakumar (Nicholls State)
Men's Flight 2 Consolation Finals
Hossam Meligy (New Orleans) vs. Jamie Eccleton (Nicholls State)
Men's Flight 3 Consolation Semifinals
Evan Karatzas (Nicholls State) vs.
Lovro Curcija (New Orleans)
Men's Flight 3 Consolation Championship
Guillermo Aylon (New Orleans) vs. winner of Evan Karatzas (Nicholls State)/
Lovro Curcija (New Orleans)
Men's Doubles Semifinals
Shayann Vaezzadeh/Blake Gregor (South Alabama) vs.
Ricardo Campos/
Hossam Meligy (New Orleans)
Cody Hall/Daniel Leitner (South Alabama) vs.
Abdelrahman Zaki/
Vinay Kamineni (New Orleans)
Women's Flight 1 Consolation Championship
Kristina Martic (New Orleans) vs TBD
Women's Flight 2 Consolation Championship
Viktoria Kozachuk (Alcorn State) vs. Soledad Arroyo (New Orleans)
Women's Doubles Semifinals
Fanny Benincasa/
Marta Sans (New Orleans) vs. Melanie Delsart/Ana Simons (Southern Illinois)
