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Brown University
USTA Collegiate Invitational
Au & Posner Doubles Finalists at USTA Collegiate Invitational
9/29/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
FLUSHING, NY - The Brown men's tennis team had three players
compete at the 2009 USTA Collegiate Invitational over the weekend
with juniors Kendrick Au (St. John's, NF) and Charlie Posner
(Cambridge, MA) finishing as runners-up in the #1 doubles flight.
Au also had a strong showing in the #1 singles flight, earning a
win over top-seeded and 71st-ranked Mihai Nichifor of Columbia in
his first match. Freshman Mike Hill (Topsham, ME) competed in
#2 singles, while Posner competed in #3 singles in addition to #1
doubles with Au.
Brown
Results
#1 Doubles
Posner/Au def. Johnson/VanVetzer (Army), 8-3; def.
Vloedgraven/Wong (Binghamton), 8-2; def. Shoji/Slow (Princeton),
8-6; lost to (#1) Kreutzer/Nolan (BC), 9-7.
#1 Singles
Au def. (#1) Mihai Nichfor (Columbia), 6-4, 6-1;
lost to Milo Hauk (St. John's), 7-5, 7-5; def. Andy Gauthier
(Cornell), 6-3, 7-6 (4); def. Sven Vloedgraven (Binghamton),
w/o.
#2 Singles
Hill lost to (#2) Phil Law (Penn), 6-3, 7-6 (5);
def. Kirill Kasyahov (Sacred Heart), 7-6 (6), 3-6, 11-9; def. Jason
Lin (Penn), 6-2, 4-1 (ret); def. Gary Kushnirovich (Army), w/o.
#3 Singles
Posner lost to Nathaniel Gery (Columbia), 7-5,
6-3; def. (#4) Dan Sauter (Fairfield), 6-3, 3-6, 10-8; lost to
Nicolas Pisecky (Marist), 7-6 (6), 6-2.
