No. 22 Alex Kotzen Slated to Compete in NCAA Singles Championship
5/23/2022 7:22:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Kotzen will face Juan Carlos Aguilar of TCU.
A unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection, Kotzen led the Ivy League in individual rankings for the entirety of the season. Winner of the league's lone automatic bid, the New York native ranked as high as No. 7 during the 2022 season.
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Kotzen and Aguilar met earlier this year, battling to a three-set result on November 4 at the ITA National Fall Championships. Kotzen claimed the victory after dropping the first set in a 6-7 (6-7, 6-4, 6-3).
Championship Information
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 23-28 at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Champaign, Illinois, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 19-22. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will serve as host.
All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a 7-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 started singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
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