Sept. 23, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Junior David Tillem (Atlanta, Ga./The Weber School) advanced to the semifinals of the Georgetown Classic over the weekend, the furthest a Hoyas men's tennis player advanced in the singles draw. Tillem defeated James Madison's Jovan Milic, 2-6, 6-0, 6-1. In the next round Tillem was behind 4-1 in the third set before rallying to defeat Nick Savage-Pollock, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After dropping the first set, 6-3 Tillem took the next two sets, 6-4, 6-4 to defeat UMBC's Chris Meyer, before falling to Ugur Atalay of Georgetown Washington 6-3, 6-3 in the semi-finals. "I was pretty hard on David after the University of Virginia Tournament," Georgetown head coach Gordie Ernst said. "He competed really hard this weekend." Senior captain Adam Gross (Quogue, N.Y./Westhampton) advanced through his first two matches in straight sets, defeating George Diggs of Howard, 6-0, 6-4 before dispatching Erik Hannah of George Washington, 6-3, 7-5. Gross would finally fall to the eventual tournament champion. Freddi Voorman of UMBC. Freshman Mieszko Tomczyk (Brooklyn, N.Y./Hunter College H.S.) also advanced to the quarterfinals with victories over Howard's Michael Gee and UMBC's Logan Bricker, before falling to Ugur Atalay, who also defeated Tillem in the semifinals. After spending much of his summer as an intern with Goldman Sachs, senior Kenny Wong (Repulse Bay, Hong Kong/St. Paul's [N.H.]) fell in his first round match, but then worked his way through the back draw to win the other side. "Kenny Wong has the heart of 22 lions," Ernst said. "He worked at Goldman Sachs all summer and he's still working his way back into shape, but he went out there and competed hard." In doubles play graduate student Ned Samuelson (Belmont, Mass./Milton Academy) and Gross worked their way to the semifinals, defeating pairs from UMBC and George Washington before falling to the eventual champions Voorman and Savage-Pollock from UMBC.
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