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Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational
Men’s Tennis preview: Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational [Sept. 12-14]
09.10.2014 | Men's Tennis
Former high school teammates will reunite as doubles partners for UT this weekend.
Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational
Midland, Texas - The Racquet Club
Sept. 12-14, 2014 (Friday-Sunday)
RC10s.com | Singles Draw | Flight 2 Singles | Doubles Draw
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The University of Men's Tennis team will begin individual competition this weekend with four representatives at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational in Midland, Texas.
Senior Jacoby Lewis leads the group of four student-athletes, including three making their competitive debut as Longhorns on Friday -- Brown University transfer Michael Riechmann, redshirt freshman William Jou and freshman John Mee.
Former Memorial High School teammates Riechmann and Jou reunite for UT to makeup the top seed in the doubles draw. The duo, separated by two years, helped guide Memorial to the 2011 UIL Class 5A state finals. Jou and Riechmann's younger brother Grant, now a tennis student-athlete at Army, won the Class 5A doubles title in 2013.
Riechmann is the No. 2 seed in the singles draw and will receive a bye in the round of 32. The Houston native was named the ITA Northeast Region Player to Watch in 2013 as a sophomore at Brown.
Mee is the No. 6 seed in the singles draw and will face Rice's Zach Yablon in the round of 32. Lewis begins the singles draw against New Mexico's Bart Van Leijsen, and Jou is slated to compete in the Flight 2 singles draw against Texas Tech's Evan Nix.
Lewis and Mee are paired as a doubles partners. Last season, Lewis held an ITA doubles ranking as high as No. 27 with teammate George Goldhoff.
There are 23 doubles teams and 30 singles players in the event that features student-athletes from ACU, Lamar, New Mexico?, Rice, Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech, Tulsa, UT Arlington and Wichita State.
Last season, two-time All-American Søren Hess-Olesen advanced to the finals of the singles draw in Midland. In 2011, the event featured two Longhorns in the singles championship match between Daniel Whitehead and Hess-Olesen.
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