BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Virginia Tech men’s tennis player Patrick Daciek won his singles match on Sunday to advance to the quarterfinals of the ITA/USTA National Summer Championships at the Indiana University Varsity Tennis Center. This is the ninth straight year IU is serving as tournament host.

Daciek (Jr., Severna Park, Md.), a 5-8 seed, won two matches on Saturday after receiving a first round bye to advance to Sunday’s Round of 16. He defeated Jordan Smith (Memphis), 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (4), Sunday to advance to Monday’s 9 a.m. quarterfinal against Anderson Reed (Florida State). Will Beck (Sr., Potomac, Md.) also won his first two matches, but lost, 6-4, 6-7, 1-0 (10), against Daniel Whithead (Texas), a 5-8 seed. The Tech duo, seeded No. 4 in doubles, lost their opening match, 8-6, later on Sunday against Jamison Clark (Vincennes)/Reid Garlock (DePauw)

Two members of the Tech women’s team are also participating in the event. Holly Johnson (Sr., Tallahassee, Fla.) and Martha Blakely (Jr., Reading, Pa.) were 9-16 seeds, however both were upset in their first round Saturday matches. Johnson bounced back to outlast Mallory Weber (Missouri), 6-2, 1-6, 1-0 (9), later in the day in the consolation round, while Blakely dropped her match. Johnson was eliminated Sunday with a, 6-3, 6-3, loss to Kelsey Haviland (Ohio State). The Tech pair, seeded No. 4 in doubles, dropped a 9-7 decision Sunday evening versus Chelcie Abajain/Breanne Smutka (Illinois) in Sunday’s opening round of doubles competition.

The ITA/USTA National Summer Championships are the pinnacle of the ITA Collegiate Summer Circuit, which was played at 32 regional sites throughout the country last month. A total of 2,965 players participated in ITA Summer Circuit events this year, falling just short of 2009’s record-breaking mark of 2,976.

Nearly 30,000 men and women have competed in ITA Summer Circuit events since it began in 1993. The circuit provides college (and junior and alumni) players the opportunity to compete in organized events virtually year round. Although the primary focus of the circuit is to provide incoming freshman and collegiate players the chance to compete in the summer months, for NCAA compliance purposes, the events within the ITA Summer Circuit are categorized as “open”; therefore anyone is eligible to compete in these events as long as he/she is a current ITA member.

New in 2010 is the addition of the Mid-Atlantic Circuit as well as a fourth site (New Mexico) in the Mountain Circuit. The ITA Summer Circuit is currently made up of eight regional circuits (East, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Central, Mountain, Southwest and West) and all eight regions consist of four consecutive open tournaments played during the month of July, leading up to the August 7-11 ITA/USTA National Summer Championships in Bloomington, Indiana.

The singles and doubles champions from the ITA/USTA National Summer Championships earn wild cards into the first national tournaments of the 2010-11 collegiate tennis season - the D’Novo Men’s and Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships in early October.

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