BATON ROUGE — The LSU men’s tennis team was ranked No. 22 in the nation in the latest poll released by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association on Tuesday.
The Tigers are coming off an impressive 2007 debut at the SEC Coaches Indoor Championships in New Orleans, where the doubles team of Danny Bryan and Colt Gatson won the doubles title.
LSU is ranked fourth among Southeastern Conference schools behind No. 1 Georgia, No. 6 Ole Miss and No. 15 Florida.
Individual rankings were not released this week. Senior Ken Skupski remains at No. 9 in the singles rankings and at No. 3, with partner James Cluskey, in the doubles rankings. Skupski along with Georgia’s John Isner are the only two SEC players listed in the top 10 of both singles and doubles.
Bryan remains at No. 68 in singles. Bryan leads the team with 12 wins this season.
Kevin Dessauer and Eric DeRoche remain at No. 44 in the doubles rankings.
Even though his team does not open the dual season until Feb. 9 against Southern, LSU head coach Jeff Brown has been busy this week. Brown’s wife Deborah gave birth to the couple’s second child Cameron on Monday.