2008 Woodie Awards
Tennis duo claims top doubles title at USC
Jacob Vannucci
Issue date: 10/18/07 Section: Sports
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A few weeks after claiming the singles title at UTC's Steve Baras Fall Classic, Badr Bouabdellah, a Casablanca, Morroco senior, joined Razvan Axente, a Braila, Romania senior, to win the doubles title at a tournament at the University of South Carolina.
The duo, which competed in the A-1 doubles flight at the USC Fall Invitational, edged out teams from host school USC, Arkansas and Louisville en route to their championship match against Wake Forest.
The Mocs took an 8-5 win in the championship match, facing off against Andrew Basseaux and Charles Sator of Wake Forest.
Another strong point for the Mocs was the play of Dutch freshman Rick van de Bovenkamp, who played in the B-3 singles flight.
After losing to Andrew Choi of Temple University in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, Bovenkamp beat Frederic Petrilli of the Citadel 6-1, 6-3 and Ryan Bernthal of Gardner-Webb by the same margin before losing to Carlos Marques of Landers.
Axente also had a strong outing at the tournament in the singles division, besting Guilherme Fonseca of Landers in a close match of three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, before beating Mickael Boyer of the College of Charleston 6-3, 6-1 in the A-2 singles flight.
However, Axente ended up falling to Sebastian Jacques of Virginia Tech 6-4, 6-2.
Other Mocs to win singles games included Bouabdellah and Pavel Vostikov, an Orenburg, Russia junior, as well as freshmen Robbie Diamond from Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Hasan Hameda of Memphis.
The Mocs will next see action at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southeast Regional Championships at the University of Kentucky.
Bouabdellah, Axente and junior Peter Sauska, Budapest, Hungary, will represent the Mocs at the tournament, where they will face some of the best competition in the Southeast in both singles and doubles play before finishing the fall season.
The duo, which competed in the A-1 doubles flight at the USC Fall Invitational, edged out teams from host school USC, Arkansas and Louisville en route to their championship match against Wake Forest.
The Mocs took an 8-5 win in the championship match, facing off against Andrew Basseaux and Charles Sator of Wake Forest.
Another strong point for the Mocs was the play of Dutch freshman Rick van de Bovenkamp, who played in the B-3 singles flight.
After losing to Andrew Choi of Temple University in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, Bovenkamp beat Frederic Petrilli of the Citadel 6-1, 6-3 and Ryan Bernthal of Gardner-Webb by the same margin before losing to Carlos Marques of Landers.
Axente also had a strong outing at the tournament in the singles division, besting Guilherme Fonseca of Landers in a close match of three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, before beating Mickael Boyer of the College of Charleston 6-3, 6-1 in the A-2 singles flight.
However, Axente ended up falling to Sebastian Jacques of Virginia Tech 6-4, 6-2.
Other Mocs to win singles games included Bouabdellah and Pavel Vostikov, an Orenburg, Russia junior, as well as freshmen Robbie Diamond from Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Hasan Hameda of Memphis.
The Mocs will next see action at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southeast Regional Championships at the University of Kentucky.
Bouabdellah, Axente and junior Peter Sauska, Budapest, Hungary, will represent the Mocs at the tournament, where they will face some of the best competition in the Southeast in both singles and doubles play before finishing the fall season.
