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Ohio State Men's Tennis (2014/2019/2024 ITA Indoor National Champs, 17 Straight B1G Titles)

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In Champaign at the NCAA single's championships, both OSU entries, Blaz Rola and Peter Kobelt won today and advanced to the round of 16.

Kobelt's match was interruptedin the 2nd set by weather and sent indoors. Peter went 3 tough sets with UCA's #1 singles player, Novikov.
Kobelt dropped the 1st set in a breaker, came back to win the 2nd set in a breaker, and then dominated the 3rd set by a 6-1 score.
Rola earned a straight set 6-2, 6-4 victory over Stroop of Miss. st.
With the wins and round of 16 advancement, both Buckeyes have earned 2013 NCAA All American status.
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Peter Kobelt advanced to the 2nd round and will face Novikov, who played first single's for runner up UCLA, the math is scheduled for today at 11 am.
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Peter got his revenge 6-7, 7-6, 6-1

Rola will have an easier assignment in the 2nd round, Malte Stroop of Miss st. is ITA ranked #67
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Rola in a cakewalk 6-1, 6-4

Some of the matches are being moved indoors because of inclement weather.
 
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Buckeyes doubles team dropped a 3 set heartbreaker to #2 seed from Duke tonight and bow out of the double's tournament.
Tomorrow Rola and Kobelt will compete in the round of 16 seeking to advance.
Kobelt will face Fanselow of Pepperdine, Rola with draw Mihov of South Carolina. Both matches are scheduled to begin at 11 am.
 
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Petey loses and Rola wins. That is okay. Peter will be back next year bigger and stronger plus he got screwed with the NCAA and their seeding for this tournament:crazy: Both guys are All Americans because they made it to the final 16.
 
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Found this in an article regarding the number of foreign-born players dominating the high school tennis scene. I do not quite understand what happened to the player from Pepper Pike because he had "high interest" from Ohio State. He did not lose one game last year on his way to the Division II singles championship. I do not know if he is injured or where he is going to school or even if he is going to school.
Pepper Pike Orange junior Max Kan lost just five games in four matches on his way to the Division II singles championship last year.

Even competitors such as Columbus Academy coach Jeff Warstler took notice of the performance.

“He’s the best player I’ve ever seen in an Ohio tournament,” Warstler said. “To him, it was like just another qualifying tournament over the weekend.”

Another highly ranked junior captivating the high-school scene is nothing new. But the fact Kan, born in Uzbekistan, is not playing high-school tennis this year, yet he is symbolic of the shift toward international players that has taken hold in Ohio, especially in Columbus.
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...eign-born-players-filling-tennis-rosters.html
 
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Ohio State junior Blaz Rola advanced to the NCAA men’s tennis singles quarterfinals today with a straight-set victory, but teammate Peter Kobelt was eliminated.

Rola, ranked 12th, defeated South Carolina’s Tsvetan Mihov 6-3, 6-2 in the Round of 16. He will play Saturday against Duke’s Henrique Cunha or Washington’s Kyle McMorrow. Mihov had beaten second-seeded Alex Domijan of national champion Virginia in the first round of the tournament.

Kobelt, ranked eighth and seeded seventh, uncharacteristically struggled to hold his serve against Pepperdine’s Sebastian Fanselow while losing 6-4, 6-2. The redshirt junior from New Albany was broken once in the first set and twice in the second.

Rola, a native of Slovenia, advances to the quarterfinals for the third straight year. He lost in that round a year ago after making it to the semifinals as a freshman.
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/05/24/ohio-state-mens-tennis.html
 
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Blaz Rola will play his quarterfinal match today at 1 pm, against Henry Cuhna of Duke.
Rola has been very efficient in the tournament to date, but Cuhna is out of this world.
In the last two rounds against the elite of the NCAA, the Duke senior has won 24 games and lost 2! :yow1:

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Rola with an impressive quarterfinal finish,
Cuhna had been dominating the past 2 rounds, came out strong in the first set, then Rola got zoned in, closing out Cuhna in the final two.
Tomorrow's semifianl is set for 1 pm and matches Blaz of tOSU against #41 ranked De Klerk of Tulsa. DeKlerk also went 3 sets to upset TSUN's Evan King in the quarters.
 
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