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10th ANNUAL USTA/URSULA BECK PRO TENNIS
CLASSIC
DECATUR, IL – The USTA has awarded wild card entries to three
area tennis players for the 10th annual USTA/Ursula
Beck Pro Tennis Classic. University of Illinois Men’s Tennis
member Roy Kalmanovich received the men’s single wild card while
fellow teammate Marek Czerwinski and his partner Sean Ragee-Nelson
received the men’s double wild card. Kalmanovich, a sophomore
from Farmington, Massachusetts, defeated Wake Forest
All-American Todd Paul in the first round of the ATP Pilot Penn
in New Haven and was a member of the New England USTA Junior
Davis Cup team. U of I sophomore, Czerwinski, captured the
Florida state doubles title as a junior and was a finalist as a
senior, also during his junior play he was ranked No. 32
nationally in Boys 16s and reached as high as No. 13 in the
nation in Boys 18s. Czerwinski’s doubles partner Sean Ragee-Nelson,
a senior at Western Illinois University, is a Decatur, IL native
and has served as a tennis instructor this summer for the
Decatur Park District. The 2008 Men’s $10,000 Futures event will
begin with first round play on Tuesday, July 29 and conclude on
Sunday, August 3.
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