Oct. 6, 2009

TULSA, Okla. - UNLV players lost both of their singles matches along with a round of doubles on Tuesday to end play in the qualifying rounds of the D'Novo ITA Men's All-American Tennis Championships at the Case Tennis Center.

Senior Luca Barlocchi started strong but eventually fell to sixth-seeded Tim Puetz of Auburn 1-6, 6-2, 6-0. Sophomore Mehdi Bouras was ousted by Neal Skupski of LSU by the score of 6-3, 6-3.

The duo later teamed up to play doubles but UNLV was downed 8-3 by Ionut Belelev and Andrei Daescu of Oklahoma.

Next up for the men's program is the ITA Regional, which will get underway at the Darling Tennis Center in Las Vegas on Oct. 21.