Swinnen Cruises Into Pac-10 Semfinals, Doubles Team Also Advances
OJAI, Calif. ? No. 16 Sven Swinnen’s quest for a Pacific-10 Conference title remains after the senior reached the semifinals of the championship draw Friday with a straight set win over Arizona State’s Chris Biro. Manuel Kost and Thomas Bieri also earned the right to play tomorrow, defeating two ranked doubles teams en route to a berth in Saturday’s championship doubles draw semifinals.
Kost and Bieri upset Cal’s No. 12-ranked Conor Niland and Patrick Briaud, 9-7, in the opening round and then took care of UCLA’s No. 42-ranked Philipp Gruendler and Benjamin Kohlloeffel, 9-8. The duo is now 5-4 on the season and 28-18 lifetime, good for fifth all-time at Oregon. Kost and Bieri will face No. 16 Daniel Chu and Alex Slovic of Washington in the semifinals.
Swinnen continued his stellar play, upping his season tournament record to 10-3, with a 6-4, 6-4 win over ASU’s Biro. Swinnen (26-7) will battle No. 2-ranked and defending Pac-10 champion Sam Warburg of Stanford in tomorrow’s semifinals at 9:30 a.m.
Results for the entire tournament can be found at http://tournaments.usta.com/Tournaments/TournamentHome/Tournament.aspx?T=24290.
Pac-10 Championships ? Day Two
Ojai, Calif.
April 22
(#) National Ranking
Quarterfinals Championship Singles
(16) Sven Swinnen (UO) def. Chris Biro (ASU) 6-4, 6-4
First Round Championship Doubles
Kost/Bieri (UO) def. (12) Niland/Briaud (CAL) 9-7
Palmanshofer/Vlaski (UW) def. Swinnen/Spencer (UO) 8-3
First Round Invitational Doubles
Pino/Pickard (UO) def. Andrus/Labrosse (UA) default
Quarterfinals Championship Doubles
Kost/Bieri (UO) def. (42) Gruendler/Kohlloeffel (UCLA) 9-8
Quarterfinals Invitational Doubles
Maack/Wallace (CAL) def. Pickard/Pino (UO) 8-5
