Michigan
NCAA Individuals (Day 3)
Jung, King Drop Second-Round Match at NCAA Doubles Tournament
5/28/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
May 28, 2010
Site: Athens, Ga. (Dan Magill Tennis Complex)
Event: NCAA Individual Championships (Day 3 of 6)
Records: No Team Scoring
Next U-M Event: Season Completed
ATHENS, Ga. -- The 2009-10 season came to a close for the University of Michigan men's tennis team, as junior Jason Jung (Torrance, Calif./West Torrance) and freshman Evan King (Chicago, Ill./Kaplan) were eliminated from the doubles tournament on Friday (May 28) at the NCAA Individual Championships, held at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. The Wolverines' duo, ranked No. 31 in the country, took No. 4 seed Bradley Klahn and Ryan Thatcher of Stanford to the brink but ran out of gas in the third set, losing, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
In the NCAA Individual Championships, each doubles match is played like a singles match, as the team that wins two of three sets wins the match.
Stanford jumped out to an early lead, winning the first set 6-4. However, Michigan rebounded in the second, 6-3, to send the match to an all-deciding third set. With the set tied at 3-3, Stanford went up a game, 4-3, and broke Michigan's serve after a back-and-forth final point to take a 5-3 lead. Stanford then closed out the match in the next game, eliminating Jung and King from the tournament.
The loss snapped a four-match win streak for the U-M duo, which ends the season with a 16-9 record in doubles play. Despite the loss, Jung and King went 10-3 in doubles matches since March 25. They defeated No. 17 Raony Carvalho and Rafael Garcia of Texas Tech in the first round on Thursday (May 27), 7-6 (8), 7-6 (2), to advance to the second round.
During the 2009-10 campaign, Jung was an All-Big Ten selection, winning 21 matches in singles and 23 in doubles. He was also named the national recipient of the ITA Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship earlier this week. Meanwhile, King won 21 matches in singles and another 18 in doubles in his first season -- playing primarily on the top two singles courts and the No. 1 doubles -- en route to being named Big Ten Freshman of the Year and ITA Midwest Region Rookie of the Year.
Michigan ended the season with a 14-11 record, reaching the second round of the NCAA Championships. The Wolverines went 8-2 in conference play, finishing third in the Big Ten. They lose seniors George Navas (Tampa, Fla./Tampa Preparatory) and Mike Sroczynski (Chatham, N.J./Laurel Springs Prep) to graduation but bring in the third-best recruiting class in the country -- according to Tennisrecruiting.net -- highlighted by blue-chip prospects Shaun Bernstein (Plainview, N.Y./Plainview Old Bethpage JFK) and Michigan native Justin Rossi (Novi, Mich./Laurel Springs Prep).
Following are match-by-match results:
#38 Jason Jung
Singles Round of 64 -- l. #11 Michael Shabaz (Virginia), 6-3, 6-2
#31 Jason Jung/Evan King
Doubles Round of 32 -- d. No. 17 Raony Carvalho/Rafael Garcia (Texas Tech), 7-6 (8), 7-6 (2)
Doubles Round of 16 -- l. No. 4 Bradley Klahn/Ryan Thatcher (Stanford), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
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Q U O T E S
Michigan Head Coach Bruce Berque
On the loss to the Stanford duo ... "They competed very well and played at a high level. That Stanford team is very strong. We were right there with them. The first set was very close and could have gone either way. We had opportunities. If you take two points and turn them the other way in the first set or the third set, the match maybe goes the other way, but that's tennis at this level. Our guys played well, competed well. They just weren't able to finish it."
On the progression of Evan and Jason in doubles play ... "Evan and Jason should be very proud, because they have improved a lot over the course of this season. Every time they step on the court, they are playing a great team at the No. 1 doubles. Especially for Evan, being a freshman playing in his first NCAA Tournament. He's improved in a long year, and I expect both him and Jason to put a lot of work in this summer to come back next year and be one of the nation's best teams. They both have the skills, the work ethic, and the passion for the game."
Contact: Brad Rudner (734) 763-4423
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