Oct. 22, 2004

Results

BLACKSBURG - Sophomore Jimmy Holland advanced in straight sets on Friday to reach the second round of the 2004 Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Men's Regional Championships. Teammate Francisco Velazquez, seeded 17-32, begins play today after receiving a first round bye. The event runs through Oct. 26 and is being held at the Burleson/Burrows Tennis Center on the Virginia Tech campus.

Holland needed a tie-breaker in the second set to complete a sweep of Yale's Matt Feldman, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) in order to advance to the second round. He faces Ryan Berger of Penn State on Saturday afternoon. Berger, who received a bye as one of the 17-32 seeds, defeated A.J. Garabedian in a third singles match at the Army Shootout last week.

Velazquez, meanwhile opens play against Josh Burman of Princeton.

Junior Antonio Aniello, who had to win a pair of qualifying matches on Thursday to reach the main draw of 128, was stopped on Friday. He fell to Princeton's Andrew Lieu in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.

In doubles, Velazquez and Garabedian also advanced. The tournament's 12th seeds took out Manhattan's David Alvarado and Alon Cohen, 8-6. Aniello and Holland also moved on with a win. They needed a tiebreaker to edge Penn's Todd Lecher and Craig Rubin, 9-8 (7-5).

The singles finalists and doubles champion from this event will earn spots in the November 4-7 ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships at the University of Michigan. Seventeen ITA Regional Championships for NCAA Division I men and women are taking place over the last two weekends of October at campuses throughout the country.