W&M Pair Falls in Opening Round at Indoor Nationals

Senior Colin O’Brien and junior Alex Cojanu fell to the No. 2 seeded team.

11/02/06 5:30PM

Columbus, Ohio - Senior Colin O’Brien and junior Alex Cojanu dropped their opening round match at the ITA Indoor National Champi-onships on Nov. 2. The Tribe duo fell to the No. 2-seeded Michigan pair of Brian Hung and Matko Maravic in the round of 16 on Thursday. W&M will return to action in the consolation quarterfinals on Friday, Nov. 3. Ohio State is the host of the event at the Racquet Club of Columbus.

The Michigan pair, also ranked No. 5 nationally in the preseason ITA poll, downed the No. 53-ranked Tribe tandem, 8-3, in the opening round. The loss dropped O’Brien and Cojanu’s season mark to 10-3.

The W&M team will face Daniel Sebecen and Pierre Mouillion of California in the consolation quarterfinals at 9:45 a.m. on Nov. 3. The Cal team also began the tournament with a tough draw falling to the No. 1-seeded Georgia pair of John Isner and Luis Flores, 8-2, in the first round. Sebecen and Mouillion gained entrance into the Indoor National Championships in the same fashion as the Tribe duo. The Golden Bear doubles team won the ITA Northwest Regional Championship, while O’Brien and Cojanu claimed the ITA Mideast Regional Championship.

While O’Brien and Cojanu will compete in the ITA National Indoor Championships on Friday, the rest of the Tribe will take part in the Crowne Plaza Tribe Invitational at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. The event is slated for Nov. 3-5 with W&M, N.C. State, Maryland and Notre Dame competing in the flighted event.

W&M Results from the ITA Indoor National Championships
Main Doubles Draw – First Round
(First Number is seed in tournament/Number in bracket is national ranking)
#2 Hung/Maravic (Michigan) [5] def. O’Brien/Cojanu (W&M) [53] – 8-3