Oct. 9, 2008
TULSA, Okla. - Auburn's Tim Puetz and Alexey Tsyrenov combined to go 0-3 Tuesday in the first round of the main draw at the D'Novo/ITA All-American Championships.
Puetz was defeated by the No.11 seed Steven Moneke of Ohio State, 6-4, 6-0, in the first round of singles play. Tsyrenov fell to Stanford's Alex Clayton, the No. 4 overall seed in the tournament, 6-1, 6-4.
Tysrenov and Puetz then teamed up in doubles competition. The duo won three matches to move on to the main draw of 32 teams.
They took on Raony Carvalho and Christian Rojmar of Texas Tech but fell in a close 8-6 match.
Three other Tigers will hit the court Friday as Alex Stamchev, Milan Krnjetin and Powell Porter are set to compete at the North Florida Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla.