Tulane University
ITA All-American Tourney
Kogan Wins Again, Advances to Semifinals
Oct 12, 2003 | Men's Tennis
Oct. 11, 2003
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Tulane University senior Michael Kogan (Kfar-Saba, Israel) had another big victory at the prestigious Icy Hot/ITA Men's All-American Championships on Saturday afternoon, upending 11th-ranked Romain Ambert from Mississippi State to advance to the event's semifinal round.
Kogan, who had needed three sets to win each of his first three matches and who had also played in the doubles flight, showed little weariness as he dispatched Ambert, 6-4, 6-2.
He advances to play fourth-ranked Alex Vlaski from Washington on Sunday morning. With a victory, he will reach the finals of the event, one of the top collegiate tennis tournaments in the nation.
Kogan, the three-time Player of the Year in Conference USA, has defeated four nationally-ranked opponents in three days. In addition to Ambert, he stopped No. 26 Doug Stewart from Virginia, No. 99 Erik Nyman from BYU and No. 47 Alex Menichini from TCU.
The Icy Hot/ITA Men's All-American Championships included six days of qualifying matches leading up to the this weekend's 64-player, 32-doubles team main draw. 256-singles player and 128-doubles team prequalifying tournaments were played October 3-6 which fed into 64-player and 32-doubles team qualifying tournaments October 7-8. The combined singles tournament fields can run over 350 players and a player who begins in prequalifying must win seven matches just to reach the main draw.
The Icy Hot/ITA Men's All-American Championship, the largest single tournament in the country, offers the first national singles and doubles titles of the season, and are followed by the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in November and the the season-ending NCAA Championships in May (the women's counterpart to the Icy Hot/ITA Men's All-American Championships, the Riviera Women's All-American Championships, is hosted by the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades).
