BATON ROUGE — The Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranked the LSU men’s tennis doubles team of Ken Skupski and Mark Growcott as the No. 1 team in the nation, in its preseason rankings released Tuesday.
Skupski and Growcott finished the 2004-05 season with a loss in the finals of the NCAA Doubles Championship, in a 7-6(4), 7-5, decision to John Isner and Antonio Ruiz of Georgia.
Both players were also ranked individually in the ITA singles rankings, with Skupski at No. 17 and Growcott at No. 37.
LSU’s No. 2 doubles team from last season, Danny Bryan and Colt Gaston, were ranked at No. 27 in the ITA poll.
The Tigers open the 2005-06 season this weekend at the Rice Crown Plaza Invitational in Houston.
ITA Rankings
Preseason Men’s Singles and Doubles Rankings
September 6, 2005
Doubles
1. Ken Skupski/Mark Growcott, LSU
2. Scott Green/Ross Wilson, Ohio State
3. Ben Rogers/Ockie Oosthvizen, Tennessee
4. Luke Shields/Thomas Schoeck, Boise St
5. Alex Slovic/Daniel Chu, Washington
6. Rohan Gajjar/Adrians Zguns, Arkansas
7. Rylan Rizza/Nick Meythaler, Virginia
8. Brandon Allan/Kai Schledorn, Middle Tennessee
9. Marko Rajevac/David North, Georgia Tech
10. Jamil Al-Agba/Kaes Van’t Hof, Southern California
11. Andreas Siljestrom/Marco Born, Middle Tennessee
12. Treat Huey/Somdev Devvarman, Virginia
13. Zach Ganger/Miron Mann, Utah
14. KC Corkery/James Pade, Stanford
15. Ryler DeHeart/Pramod Dabir, Illinois
16. Matt Baccarani/Patrick Thompson, Ball State
17. Jeff Grolismond/Chris Westerhof, Florida State
18. Matija Zgaga/Lars Poerschke, Baylor
19. Greg Ouellette/Janne Holmia, Florida
20. Jakob Gustafsson/Jeremy Clark, Louisville
21. Eric Claesson/Erling Tveit, Mississippi
22. Robert Searle/Ben Hacknett, Rice
23. Brian Hung/Matko Maravic, Michigan
24. Colin Purcell/Strahinja Bobusic, Georgia
25. Adam Holmstrom/Niklas Persson, Denver
26. Philipp Gruendler/Ben Kohlloeffel, UCLA
27. Danny Bryan/Colt Gaston, LSU
28. Drew Eberly/Chris Klingemann, Ohio State
29. Alex Schweizer/Terence Nugent, Auburn
30. Brett Joelson/Brian Wooten, Texas A&M
31. Roger Matalonga/Daniel Andrus, Arizona
32. Josh Cohen/Luigi D’Agord, Miami
33. Ashwin Kumar/Sasha Ermakov, Harvard
34. Rafael Abreu/Jacopo Tezza, TCU
35. Daniel Byrnes/Felipe Diaz, Oklahoma State
36. Brett Ross/Todd Paul, Wake Forest
37. Jose-Carlos Pinto/Florent Girod, Mississippi State
38. Alex Slovic/Patrik Fischer, Washington
39. Amanjot Singh/Dusan Tabak, UL-Lafayette
40. Jonathan Stokke/Joey Atas, Duke
41. Ytai Abougzir/Marick Sykut, Florida State
42. Shannon Buck/Trevor Johnson, Air Force
43. John Stone/Dmytro Ishtuganov, Indiana
44. Doug Stewart/Darrin Cohen, Virginia
45. Eric Molnar/Chad Tsuda, Colorado
46. Peter Rorigues/Ludovic Walter, Duke
47. Arnaud Lecloerec/Francesc Lleal, VCU
48. Michal Kokta/Vladimir Portnov, Baylor
49. Ryan Young/Jermaine Jenkins, Clemson
50. Eric Hechtman/Tim Krebs, Miami
51. Raian Luchici/Brad Pomeroy, North Carolina
52. Federico Murgier/Peter Oredsson, SMU
53. Brady Crosby/Jose Orozco, Western Michigan
54. Kevin Anderson/Brandon Davis, Illinois
55. Sandy Farquhaeson/Diego Mattan, Texas-Arlington
56. Jerry Makowski/Conor Pollock, Texas A&M
57. Sam Chang/Jonathan Sucupira, Florida State
58. Andrey Kumantsov/Raul Morant-Rivas, Texas A&M-CC
59. Ivor Lovrak/Jonas Berg, Pepperdine
60. Arnar Sigurdsson/Vladimir Zdravkovic, Pacific
60. Roger Gubser/Hubert Chodkiewicz, Texas
60. Damar Johnson/Slarko Radman, Louisville
Singles
1. Ryler DeHeart, Illinois
2. Ludovic Walter, Duke
3. Ben Kohlloeffel, UCLA
4. John Isner, Georgia
5. Jerry Makowski, Texas A&M
6. Doug Stewart, Virginia
7. Jamil Al-Agba, Southern California
8. Arnaud Lecloerec, VCU
9. KC Corkery, Stanford
10. Pedro Rico, Pepperdine
11. GD Jones, Illinois
12. Somdev Devvarman, Virginia
13. Luke Shields, Boise State
14. Greg Ouellette, Florida
15. Tom Eklund, South Carolina
16. Rylan Rizza, Virginia
17. Ken Skupski, LSU
18. Kevin Anderson, Illinois
19. Devin Mullings, Ohio State
20. Josh Cohen, Miami
21. Bojan Szumanski, Texas Tech
22. Travis Helgeson, Texas
23. Alex Slovic, Washington
24. Robert Searle, Rice
25. Lars Poerschke, Baylor
26. Luigi D’Agord, Miami
27. Raian Luchici, North Carolina
28. Shannon Buck, Air Force
29. Joey Atas, Duke
30. Roger Matalonga, Arizona
31. Rohan Gajjar, Arkansas
32. Joseph Jung, Alabama
33. Todd Paul, Wake Forest
34. Oscar Posada, East Tennessee State
35. Marek Velicka, Oklahoma
36. Mark Barry, Penn State
37. Mark Growcott, LSU
38. Damar Johnson, Louisville
39. Arnar Sigurdsson, Pacific
40. Vlad Obradovic, Florida
41. Roger Gubser, Texas
42. Matko Maravic, Michigan
43. Erling Tveit, Mississippi
44. Adam Holmstrom, Denver
45. Darrin Cohen, Virginia
46. James Wan, Stanford
47. Marko Bundalo, Colorado
48. Chris Biro, Arizona St
49. Tomas Bohunicky, Oklahoma State
50. Philipp Gruendler, UCLA
51. Brandon Wai, Yale
52. Lennart Maack, California
53. Jonathan Stokke, Duke
54. Paul Rose, Purdue
55. Janne Holmia, Florida
56. Chris Brandi, Florida
57. Andreas Siljestrom, Middle Tennessee
58. Adrians Zguns, Arkansas
59. Matic Omerzel, Georgia
60. Dan Hanegby, Brown
61. Marko Miklo, Virginia
62. Tim Krebs, Univ. of Miami
63. Michal Kokta, Baylor
64. Sander Koning, Clemson
65. Nick Cavaday, NC State
66. Benjamin Carlotti, North Carolina
67. Greg Johnstone, Morehead State
68. Alex Hume, Kentucky
69. Jorden Vestli, Pacific
70. Andrew Hammar, Wake Forest
71. Alexei Ivanov, Oklahoma
72. Alex Schweizer, Auburn
73. Matt Roberts, Arkansas
74. Stephen Bass, Notre Dame
75. Markus Dickhardt, San Diego St.
76. Nicolas Terrien, Loyola Marymount
77. Sheeva Parbhu, Notre Dame
78. Dusan Tabak, UL-Lafayette
79. Matt Baccarani, Ball State
80. Jeremy Sonkin, Wisconsin
81. Nestor Briceno, Florida
82. Ytai Abougzir, Florida State
83. Jaime Cuellar, South Carolina
84. Philippe Frayssinoux, Mississippi State
85. Joel Kielbowicz, UNLV
86. Strahinja Bobusic, Georgia
87. Jose Orozco, Western Michigan
88. Peter Rodrigues, Duke
89. Eric Langenkamp, Notre Dame
90. Bryan Wooten, Texas A&M
91. Brett Ross, Wake Forest
92. Sergi Arumi, VCU
93. Ricardo Gonzalez, Georgia
94. Nate Emge, Kentucky
95. Federico Ueltschi, Montana State
96. Collin Purcell, Georgia
97. Max Jones, New Mexico
98. Jakub Cech, Fresno State
99. Henrique Cancado, Old Dominion
100. Eric Hechtman, Miami
101. Matija Zgaga, Baylor
102. Arvid Puranen, Virginia Tech
103. Milan Mihailovic, Texas
104. Matt Bruch, Stanford
105. Tony Haerle, Rice
106. Michael Venus, Texas
107. Ruben Gonzales, Illinois
108. Brett Helgeson, Notre Dame
109. Bobby Cameron, Tennessee
110. Eric Claesson, Mississippi
111. Richard Soriano, Tulsa
112. Jonathan Sucupira, Florida State
113. Martin Sayer, Radford
114. Marick Sykut, Florida State
115. Marc Spicijaric, Illinois
116. Juan Pablo Di Cesare, Mississippi
117. Slarko Radman, Louisville
118. Thomas Schoeck, Boise State
119. Nima Roshan, BYU
120. Bryan Koniecko, Ohio State
121. Pierre Mouillon, Mississippi State
122. Treat Huey, Virginia
123. Monte Tucker, Illinois
124. Kaes Van’t Hof, Southern California
125. Jarrett Chirico, Virginia
125. Chris Clayton, Harvard
125. Chris Klingemann, Ohio State
125. Christian Tempke, Northwestern
125. Tommy Garrison, Oklahoma
Insufficient Data (not competing in the Fall):
Stephen Amritraj, Duke
Callum Beale,Texas
Scott Doerner, Pepperdine
Barry King, Notre Dame
Jose Mugunza, Georgia Tech
Pedro Rodrigues, South Carolina
Antonio Ruiz, Georgia
Benedikt Stronk, San Diego State
Pierrick Ysern, San Diego