Oct. 10, 2002

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Senior men's tennis player Ben Stapp (Sydney, Australia/St. Joseph's) can now focus on his doubles match with teammate Lee Taylor Walker (Jackson, Tenn./University School of Jackson) after falling just short of upsetting the No. 3 seed in the ITA All-American Qualifier, Thursday.

Stapp won the opening set from William Barker, the No. 3 seed of the bracket, 6-4. Barker answered back with a 6-3 win in the second set to force the third set tiebreak. The third set was close, but Barker prevailed, 7-6 (6), to advance to the Round of 32. Barker won his Round of 32 match to advance to the Round of 16, 6-2, 6-4

Stapp and Walker, who automatically qualified for the main draw of the doubles tournament, will face the duo of Ari Strasberg and Alex Vlaski from Washington at 6:30 p.m., Thursday. The winner of that match advances into the Round of 16 to face the winner of the Evan Austin/Karim Benmansour (Kentucky)/Thomas Haug/Avery Ticer (Minnesota) match.

Twenty-seven of the 32 doubles teams at the ITA All-American are nationally-ranked. A list of the ranked teams competing at the ITA Thursday thru Satuday is below:

		No. 2 	Scott Lipsky/David Martin			Stanford
		No. 3	Oliver Maiberger/Ryan Redondo			San Diego State
		No. 4	Michael Calkins/Amer Delic			Illinois
		No. 6	Nic Boeker/Bo Hodge				Georgia
		No. 7	Jean Simon/Jose Zahri				Texas
		No. 11	Robert Kowalczyk/Balazs Veress		        California
		No. 12	Thomas Haug/Avery Ticer			        Minnesota
		No. 13	Carlos Lozano/Erik Nyman			BYU
		No. 14	Rameez Junaid/Rodrigo Minozco		        Auburn
		No. 15	Lester Cook/Ante Matijevic			Texas A&M
		No. 16	David Corrie/Nathan McGregor			Texas-Arlington
		No. 17	Johan Brunstrom/Henrik Soderberg		SMU
		No. 19	Bobby Reynolds/Lewis Smith			Vanderbilt
		No. 21	Cody Conley/Octavian Nicodim			Louisville
		No. 22	Evan Austin/Karim Benmansour			Kentucky
		No. 23	Jonathan Endrikat/Brian Morton			UC-Irvine
		No. 24	Oliver Choo/Jonathan Chu			Harvard
		No. 27	Ari Strasberg/Alex Vlaski			Washington
	        No. 28	Felix Hardt/Valentino Pest			San Diego State
		No. 29	Ben Stapp/Lee Taylor Walker			Memphis
		No. 30	Maxim Belski/Stephen Mitchell			Alabama
		No. 31	Mark Dietrick/Simon Rea			        Tennessee
		No. 35	Richard Barker/William Barker			Rice
		No. 37	Kirk Jackson/Daniel Klemenz			Middle Tennessee
		No. 38	Oliver Levant/Eleazar Magallan			Florida
		No. 43	Benjamin Becker/Benedikt Dorsch		        Baylor
		No. 44	Phil Stolt/Brian Wilson				Illinois