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Nolan and Patten NCAA Doubles First Round Match to be Featured on Tennis Channel on Tuesday
05.19.2019 | Men's Tennis
UNC Asheville NCAA Packet
Doubles Bracket
ORLANDO, Fla. – Nationally fourth-seeded Oli Nolan and Henry Patten of UNC Asheville men's tennis will face Payton Holden and Ryan Seggerman of Princeton in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Doubles Championship at the USTA National Campus at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21.
The first round matchup will be played on court one and will be part of the television coverage of the championship on the Tennis Channel. Please visit HERE to see if your current provider carries the Tennis Channel and/or how to access.
UNC Asheville athletics recently caught up with men's tennis head coach Tom Hand to talk about the preparations for Nolan and Patten. Nolan and Patten were also featured by WLOS ahead of the NCAA Doubles Championship. Learn more HERE.
The winner of the match will advance to take on the winner of the Murkel Dellien-Marius Frosa (Wichita State) and Alexander Bakshi-Stefano Tsorotiotis (Oklahoma) match in the round of 16 on Wednesday, May 22.
You can follow all of the action live at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Doubles Championship HERE.
All matches at the championship will be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10- point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams.
The No. 4 national seed at the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Doubles Championship marks the first national seed in the history of Big South men's tennis. The Bulldog duo are just the second doubles pairing in the history of the league to earn a spot in the NCAA Doubles Championship according to conference records.
Nolan and Patten are currently ranked fourth nationally in the latest Oracle Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings. The duo was ranked No. 1 nationally for three consecutive polls early in the spring semester.
The duo was undefeated during the 2018-19 regular season. The doubles pairing went undefeated playing together during the fall and won three titles including the national championship victory at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships at the Surprise Tennis & Racquet Complex.
Nolan and Patten were a perfect 7-0 this spring en route to earning first-team all-league accolades. Patten was named the Big South Men's Tennis Player of the Year for the third straight year, while also being named the All-Academic Team for the third consecutive year. Nolan was also named to the All-Big South team in singles as well as doubles.
Patten will be participating in the NCAA Championships for the second straight year.
Patten last year became just the second player in Big South history to advance to the second round of the NCAA Men's Tennis Singles Championship with a thrilling 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Alex Lebedev of Notre Dame on May 23.
The win was the first win for the UNC Asheville men's tennis program in the NCAA Men's Tennis Singles Championship.
As a team, UNC Asheville men's tennis finished the 2019 spring campaign with an impressive 20-5 overall record. The Bulldogs were a perfect 10-0 in matches played at home at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown. UNC Asheville's 20 wins this past season was a program record.
To learn more about UNC Asheville men's tennis, please visit uncabulldogs.com.
Doubles Bracket
ORLANDO, Fla. – Nationally fourth-seeded Oli Nolan and Henry Patten of UNC Asheville men's tennis will face Payton Holden and Ryan Seggerman of Princeton in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Doubles Championship at the USTA National Campus at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21.
The first round matchup will be played on court one and will be part of the television coverage of the championship on the Tennis Channel. Please visit HERE to see if your current provider carries the Tennis Channel and/or how to access.
UNC Asheville athletics recently caught up with men's tennis head coach Tom Hand to talk about the preparations for Nolan and Patten. Nolan and Patten were also featured by WLOS ahead of the NCAA Doubles Championship. Learn more HERE.
The winner of the match will advance to take on the winner of the Murkel Dellien-Marius Frosa (Wichita State) and Alexander Bakshi-Stefano Tsorotiotis (Oklahoma) match in the round of 16 on Wednesday, May 22.
You can follow all of the action live at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Doubles Championship HERE.
All matches at the championship will be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10- point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams.
The No. 4 national seed at the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Doubles Championship marks the first national seed in the history of Big South men's tennis. The Bulldog duo are just the second doubles pairing in the history of the league to earn a spot in the NCAA Doubles Championship according to conference records.
Nolan and Patten are currently ranked fourth nationally in the latest Oracle Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings. The duo was ranked No. 1 nationally for three consecutive polls early in the spring semester.
The duo was undefeated during the 2018-19 regular season. The doubles pairing went undefeated playing together during the fall and won three titles including the national championship victory at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships at the Surprise Tennis & Racquet Complex.
Nolan and Patten were a perfect 7-0 this spring en route to earning first-team all-league accolades. Patten was named the Big South Men's Tennis Player of the Year for the third straight year, while also being named the All-Academic Team for the third consecutive year. Nolan was also named to the All-Big South team in singles as well as doubles.
Patten will be participating in the NCAA Championships for the second straight year.
Patten last year became just the second player in Big South history to advance to the second round of the NCAA Men's Tennis Singles Championship with a thrilling 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Alex Lebedev of Notre Dame on May 23.
The win was the first win for the UNC Asheville men's tennis program in the NCAA Men's Tennis Singles Championship.
As a team, UNC Asheville men's tennis finished the 2019 spring campaign with an impressive 20-5 overall record. The Bulldogs were a perfect 10-0 in matches played at home at the Asheville Racquet Club Downtown. UNC Asheville's 20 wins this past season was a program record.
To learn more about UNC Asheville men's tennis, please visit uncabulldogs.com.
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