Georgia Tennis: Un-Ranked Oosterbaan Builds Resume at Cajun Classic
The fall tennis season is resume building time as collegiate players work to ascend the ITA rankings and to maintain rankings earned during the last year.
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Georgia tennis redshirt sophomore Paul Oosterbaan won a pair of matches to reach the quarterfinals of the Cajun Classic Thursday at Louisiana-Lafayette’s Cajun Courts.
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Oosterbaan defeated UL-Lafayette’s Arthur Libaud 6-4, 6-4 in his first match. Oklahoma State’s ITA 74th ranked Lucas Gerch fell to the Bulldog sophomore 6-3, 7-6.
The unranked Oosterbaan plays in the quarterfinal round against Ole Miss’ 44th ranked Stefan Lindmark , another resume building opportunity for the son of J. P. Oosterbaan, a player on the 1989 Michigan national champion basketball team. (Since you asked, no, Oosterbaan is not related to Michigan football legend Bennie Oosterbaan, the three time football, baseball and basketball Wolverine letterman from 1925-1927.)
“It was a good start to the tournament for Paul, and he played a couple of great matches,” said head coach Manuel Diaz told Georgiadogs.com.
Senior Nick Wood and freshman Emil Reinberg also won their opening round matches. Wood downed TCU’s Trey Daniel 6-4, 6-7, 6-4, and Reinberg beat Oklahoma State’s Julian Cash 6-4, 6-4. Wood and Reinberg failed on their oen resume building opportunities, the ITA 104 ranked Wood falling to LSU’s 91 ranked Justin Butsch and Reinberg falling to USC’s 61 ranked Max De Vroome, both by 6-1 scores in the third set.
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Walker Duncan dropped his first round match, but rebounded in the consolation draw with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over ULL’s Eric Perez.
“Emil had an impressive first match, and I was proud of the way Walker bounced back in his second match of the day.” Said Diaz. “Nick won his first match but let one slip away in the second round. Overall our guys competed well, and hopefully we can continue to improve as we move forward this weekend.”
At last weeks Oracle/ITA Masters Classic in Malibu, the Dawgs enjoyed resume building wins. Wayne Montgomery beat number 1-ranked Axel Alvarez of Oklahoma, and Austin Smith defeated number 14 ranked Ronnie Schneider of North Carolina, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.
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