@OspreyMTEN Ready For Challenges at 2014 USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Championships

Thursday, October 16

Athens, Ga.

All Day

University of North Florida

USTA/ITA Regional Championships

@OspreyMTEN Ready For Challenges at 2014 USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Championships

10/15/2014 2:13:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: North Florida Athletics

Tournament Central
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ATHENS, Ga. – Tough competition awaits University of North Florida men's tennis at the five-day 2014 USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Championships held at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex at the University of Georgia Oct. 16-20. Two Ospreys are currently slated to compete in Thursday's Qualifying Singles, while four Ospreys are automatically in Friday's Singles Main Draw. UNF has four pairs in the Doubles Main Draw.

"Our goal for the team this fall was to show the guys the best college tennis in the country, so they can understand where we are trying to take this program," said head coach Mark Finnegan. "We are bringing the whole team to compete in one of the toughest regions in the country. It's my hope that the guys will only focus on what's controllable and be optimistic with themselves with the uncontrollable parts of tennis. We are growing and getting better each week, so I'm excited to see what the outcome will be."

Fifteen schools from Florida and Georgia will compete in the tournament. Participating schools include Florida, Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State, Mercer, Miami, Stetson, UCF, UNF and USF.

UNF has seeded players in the Singles Main Draw and in the Doubles Main Draw. In singles, Jack Findel-Hawkins earned one of the 9-16 seeds in the Main Draw. In doubles, Findel-Hawkins and Norbert Nemcsek locked up the tournament No. 3 seed.

UNF begins the singles competition on Thursday with Zach Goldberg and Norbert Nemcsek in Qualifying Singles. Goldberg is scheduled to play Florida's Jordan Belga at Noon, while Nemcsek faces Georgia's Peter Bertran at 1:30 p.m. in the First Round. Second Round of Qualifying Singles is also set for Thursday with the winners of that round advancing into Friday's Main Draw.

Already in Friday's Main Draw with Findel-Hawkins are Julian Bradley, Caio Gomes, Lasse Muscheites and Yannick Zuern. Bradley goes up against Georgia's Nick Wood at 4 p.m., while Zuern faces USF's Justin Roberts at 3 p.m. Both Gomes' and Muscheites' opponents will be players advancing out of Qualifying Singles.

With the doubles competition, two Ospreys duos received a bye in the Round of 64 and automatically reached Friday's Round of 32. As the No. 3 seed, Findel-Hawkins and Nemcsek have a Round of 64 bye and will take on Georgia Tech's Elijah Melendez and Daniel Yun on Friday at 9 a.m. Muscheites and Zuern also had a bye and faces Florida Atlantic's Richard Meade and Will Neuner at 9 a.m., on Friday.

Meanwhile, two UNF doubles teams begin their competition in Thursday's Round of 64. Bradley and Goldberg have a 5 p.m., match against Stetson's Loic Blanco and Kevin Gonzalez. Gomes and Alberto De Meo take on Georgia State's Sofiane Chevallier and Zackery Kennedy at 6:30 p.m.

Results for the first four rounds of singles and doubles will be updated periodically on the Tournament Central webpage.