University of Memphis Athletics
Walker Advances to Doubles Semis at ITA Championships
Aug 12, 2003 | Men's Tennis
Aug. 12, 2003
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Rising senior Lee Taylor Walker took another step forward in his quest to defend his ITA National Summer Championships Doubles Crown from 2002. Walker and his doubles teammate for the tournament, LSU's Bryan Fisher, downed the Princeton duo of Hans Plukas and Shannon Morales, 8-2, in the first quarterfinal, Monday.
One of three seeded teams to advance to the semifinals, Walker and Fisher, the top seed for the tournament, will face the unseeded University of Virginia duo Rylan Rizza and Nick Meythaler in the first semifinal, Tuesday.
The winner of that match will face a Big 10 team as the Indiana team of Recht/Stone faces the duo of Martin/Zeder from Illinois, the No. 1 ranked collegiate team in the country at the end of 2002-03.
Walker is seeking to defend a portion of the doubles crown after teaming with Tennessee's Wade Orr last year to win the doubles title. Orr also won the men's singles title last year.
The ITA National Summer Championships, presented by the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), are the pinnacle of the ITA Collegiate Summer Circuit, which was played at 20 regional sites throughout the country last month. More than 14,000 men and women have competed in circuit events since it began in 1993. The singles and doubles champions from the ITA National Summer Championships earn wild cards into the first national tournaments of the 2003-04 college tennis season - the Icy Hot/ITA Men's and Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships in October (the finalists earn wild cards into the qualifying tournament).
