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Three Men's Tennis Players in ITA Preseason Rankings

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Three Men's Tennis Players in ITA Preseason Rankings

BATON ROUGE — Three members of the LSU men’s tennis team are listed in the Fila Intercollegiate Tennis Association preseason rankings, the organization announced.

Senior Colt Gaston and junior James Cluskey highlighted the ranking by being ranked No. 9 in doubles. The duo has never played in a match together but each reached the round of 16 in the NCAA doubles tournament this past season.

Gaston garnered All-American honors last season after he and then-partner Danny Bryan posted a 24-4 record.

Cluskey and then-partner Ken Skupski posted a 23-11 record last season.

Senior Kevin Dessauer was the only Tiger listed in the singles rankings coming in at No. 53. The former walk-on had his best season as a Tiger last season as he earned second-team All-SEC honors and compiled a 23-10 record in singles and 23-13 mark in doubles.

The Tigers open the 2007-08 season this Friday when they travel to Houston for the Courtyard by Marriot/Rice Invitational.

Singles

1 Somdev Devvarman, Virginia
2 Steven Moneke, Ohio State
3 Arnau Brugues, Tulsa
4 Travis Helgeson, Georgia
5 Luke Shields, Boise State
6 Bryan Koniecko, Ohio State
7 Erling Tveit, Mississippi
8 Andre Begemann, Pepperdine
9 Ryan Rowe, Illinois
10 Greg Ouellette, Florida
11 Oleksandr Nedovyesov, Oklahoma State
12 Adam Holmstrom, Denver
13 Treat Huey, Virginia
14 Pierre Mouillon, California
15 Ivan Puchkarov, Oklahoma State
16 Harel Srugo, UCLA
17 Haythem Abid, UCLA
18 Robbye Poole, Mississippi
19 Daniel Vallverdu, Miami (Florida)
20 Blake Strode, Arkansas, Fayetteville
21 Matko Maravic, Michigan
22 Bojan Szumanski, Texas Tech
23 Dimitar Kutrovsky, Texas at Austin
24 Marek Sramek, South Alabama
25 David North, Georgia Tech
26 Martin Sayer, Radford
27 Elliot Wronski, UNLV
28 Andreas Weber, Hawaii, Manoa
29 Ryan Preston, Vanderbilt
30 Sheeva Parbhu, Notre Dame
31 Bassam Beidas, Pepperdine
32 Nick Rinks, Michigan State
33 Zach Ganger, Utah
34 Jerry Makowski, Texas A&M
35 Michael James, Penn State
36 Matt Bruch, Stanford
37 Conor Pollock, Texas A&M
38 Clancy Shields, Boise State
39 Alex Skrypko, SMU
40 Philippe Frayssinoux, Mississippi State
41 Raoul Schwark, Minnesota, Twin Cities
42 Billy Mertz, Alabama
43 Kaes Van’t, Southern California
44 Bruno Agostinelli, Kentucky
45 Andy Juc, Furman
46 Cory Parr, Wake Forest
47 Juan Rebaza, Arizona State
48 Richard Wire, Stanford
49 Moritz Baumann, Wisconsin, Madison
50 Sascha Heinemann, Hawaii, Manoa
51 Thomas Richter, Indiana-Bloomington
52 Vaclav Kucera, Oklahoma
53 Kevin Dessauer, LSU
54 Cosmin Cotet, TCU
55 Nick Cavaday, North Carolina State
56 Benjamin Carlotti, North Carolina
57 Kiril Dimitrov, Duke
58 Nate Schnugg, Georgia
59 Jason Pinsky, Pennsylvania
60 Thomas Liversage, San Diego
61 Dominik Mueller, Baylor
62 Roy Sichel, Charlotte
63 Marc Spicijaric, Illinois
64 Jamie Hunt, Georgia
65 Dominic Inglot, Virginia
66 Brett Helgeson, Notre Dame
67 Ricardo Soriano, Tulsa
68 Jack Baker, South Alabama
69 Davey Sandgren, Tennessee
70 Jean-Yves Aubone, Florida State
71 Matt Brooklyn, Arizona State
72 Milan Mihailovic, Texas at Austin
73 Olivier Sajous, Florida Atlantic
74 Nick Cromydas, Vanderbilt
75 Claudio Christen, Arizona
76 Marc Rocafort, Middle Tennessee State
77 Chris Clayton, Harvard
78 Denes Lukacs, Baylor
79 Pedro Campos, South Carolina
80 Luis Diaz Barriga, Texas at Austin
81 Ralph Knupfer, Rice
82 Peter Capkovic, Princeton
83 Philip Therp, UC Santa Barbara
84 Chris Racz, Tennessee
85 Alexandru Cojanu, William and Mary
86 Christoph M?ller, Rice
87 Jeremy Sonkin, Wisconsin, Madison
88 Andrei Daescu, Oklahoma
89 Matthias Wellermann, Mississippi
90 Will Ward, Kentucky
91 Nestor Briceno, Florida
92 Mike Sroczynski , Michigan
93 Sinisa Markovic, Texas Tech
94 Dalibor Pavic, Drake
95 Jonas Berg, Mississippi
96 Kellen Damico, Texas
97 Mathieu Thibaudeau, Alabama
98 Amrit Narasimhan, Memphis
99 Sanam Singh, Virginia
100 Albert Larregola, Virginia Tech
101 Nolan Polley, Wisconsin, Madison
102 Lukas Marsoun, Auburn
103 Maor Zirkin, Drake
104 Justin Kronauge, Ohio State
105 Clint Bowles, Florida State
106 Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, Washington
107 Stefan Hardy, North Carolina
108 John-Patrick Smith, Tennessee
109 Dylan Arnould, Duke
110 Matt Brown, Baylor
111 Alex Clayton, Stanford
112 Jaak Poldma, Southern California
113 Jordan Rux, Baylor
114 Reid Carleton, Duke
115 Omer Abramovich, College of Charleston
116 Andrew Piotrowski, Southern California
117 Dmytro Petrov, Oklahoma State
118 Ed Corrie, Texas
119 Michael Shabaz, Virginia
120 Drew Eberly, Ohio State
121 Dadamo, Jeff, Florida
122 Damon Gooch, Elon
123 Hamui, Johnny, Florida
124 Jason Jung, Michigan
125 Jason McNaughton, Southern California
125 T Kean Feeder, Boise State
125 T James Lemke, Pepperdine
125 T Robert Farah, Southern California
125 T Jay Weinacker, North Carolina St.

Insufficient Data (players in final 2007 rankings not competing in the Fall):
Luis Flores, The Georgia
Lars Poerschke, Baylor
Kaden Hensel, Tennessee
Ivan Bjelica, Mississippi State
Bobby Cameron, Tennessee, Knoxville
Ruben Gonzales, Illinois

Doubles 
1 Somdev Devvarman/Treat Huey, Virginia
2 Matt Bruch/Blake Muller, Stanford
3 Nicolas Delgado/Pedro Graber, Virginia Tech
4 Dimitar Kutrovsky/Josh Zavala, Texas
5 Matt Thibaudeau/Dan Buikema, Alabama
6 Ryan Rowe/Marc Spicijaric, Illinios
7 Drew Eberly/Justin Kronauge, Ohio State
8 Greg Ouellette/Tyler Hockwalt, Florida
9 Colt Gaston/James Cluskey, LSU
10 bojan szumanski/christian rojmar, Texas Tech
11 Alex Cojanu/Keziel Juneau, William & Mary
12 Blake Strode/Colin Mascall, Arkansas
13 David Goulet/Dylan Arnould, Duke
14 Nick Rinks/Adam Monich, Michigan State
15 Federico Chavarria/Andrei Daescu, Oklahoma
16 Mariusz Adamski/Cory Parr, Wake Forest
17 Travis Helgeson/Nate Schnugg, Georgia 
18 Lenny Gullan/David Stone, North Carolina
19 Matko Maravic/Mike Sroczynski, Michigan
20 Erling Tveit/Jonas Berg, Mississippi
21 Robert Farah/Kaes Van’t Hof, Southern California
22 Cosmin Cotet/Kriegler Brink, TCU
23 Adam Holmstrom/Niklas Persson, Denver
24 Dominic Inglot/Houston Barrick, Virginia
25 Steven Moneke/Bryan Koniecko, Ohio State
26 Sam Chang/Maciek Sykut, Florida State
27 Zach Ganger/Miron Mann, Utah
28 David Galic/Denes Lukacs, Baylor
29 Nick Cavaday/Jay Weinacker, North Carolina State
30 Luke Shields/Clancy Shields, Boise State
31 Bryan Norville/Alex Birchmeier, Western Michigan
32 Sheeva Parbhu/Andrew Roth, Notre Dame
33 Pierre Mouillon/Geoff Chizever, California
34 Oleksandr Nedovyesov/Dmytro Petrov, Oklahoma State
35 Maor Zirkin/Dalibor Pavic, Drake
36 Michael James/Adam Slagter, Penn State
37 Ralph Knupfer/Christoph Mueller, Rice
38 Sasha Ermakov/Ashwin Kumar, Harvard 
39 Jakob Klaeson/Robbye Poole, Mississippi
40 Ross Cunningham/Andy Connelly, Tulsa
41 Will Ward/Bruno Agostinelli, Kentucky
42 Jamie Hunt/Christian Viutlli, Georgia 
43 Ivan Puchkarov/Nathan Byrnes, Oklahoma State
44 Ryan Preston/Vijay Paul, Vanderbilt
45 Danny Dossetor/James Eason, Citadel
46 Jesse Tarr/Mike Smith, James Madison
47 Damon Gooch/Mason Schermerhorn, Elon
48 Andreas Weber/Sascha Heinemann, Hawaii 
49 Piotr Dilaj/Steve Robertson, Boise State
50 Saurabh Kohli/Chris Lee, Brown
51 Ricardo Soriano/Arnau Brugues, Tulsa
52 Martin Sayer/Zachary Watson, Radford
53 Billy Mertz/Javier Bes, Alabama
54 Alex Skrypko/Robin Fahgen, SMU
55 Bassam Beidas/James Lemke, Pepperdine 
56 Marek Sramek/Jack Baker, South Alabama
57 Mike Beatty/Matt Bain, Texas A&M
58 Moritz Starke/David Gonzalez, Pacific
59 Robert Hodel/R.J. Nagel, South Alabama
60 Mohamed Abid/Harel Srugo, UCLA