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TULSA, Okla. -- One day after two Virginia Tech singles players failed to hold early leads and dropped their opening matches, the Hokies doubles combo of Patrick Daciek/Yoann Re cruised through both of their Tuesday qualifying doubles contests in the D’Novo All-American Men’s Tennis Championships. Tennis’ top collegiate players are participating in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) first national event of the 2009-10 tennis season and is being played at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

Daciek (So., Severna Park, Md.)/Re (Sr., Verdun, Quebec, Canada) defeated Piotr Banas/Javier Pulgar (Louisiana-Lafayette), 8-3, in their afternoon match, then knocked off Louis Cant/Antonio Laste (Mississippi State), 8-2, in the evening contest. The Tech duo will face the No. 4 seeds and 35th-ranked team of Matt Kecki/Jaak Poldma (Southern California) Wednesday at 3:30 ET with a win sending them into Thursday’s main draw. The match can be seen for free at http://www.tulsahurricane.com/livestats/m-tennis/TulsaTennis.html.

Re, ranked 35th nationally, will see his first singles action in the main draw which will begin on Thursday.

The tournament includes six rounds of pre-qualifying and qualifying singles and doubles tournaments with the pre-qualifying rounds completed over the weekend.

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