Marcelo Arevalo Advances to Wimbledon’s Main Draw in Doubles
6/28/2016 8:29:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Former University of Tulsa tennis athlete Marcelo Arevalo and his teammate Roberto Maytin advanced to the Main Draw of doubles competition at Wimbledon on Monday.
Arevalo, from El Salvador, and Maytin, from Venezuela, won their second round qualifying match against Rameez Junaid (Australia) and Austin Krajicek (USA) by a score of 6-3, 6-4 in a match that lasted 55 minutes. In first round action the team of Arevalo and Maytin defeated Yan Bai (China) and Dino Marcan (Croatia), 7-5, 6-4.
The duo will face the doubles team of Konstantin Kravhcuk (Russia) and Denys Molchanov (Ukraine) either Wednesday or Thursday in the Main Draw. The order of play has not yet been announced.
Arevalo has an ATP doubles ranking of 123 and a singled rank of 218 in the World.
Arevalo played two seasons at Tulsa (2009-11) before turning professional. He was named the Conference USA Player of the Year and the ITA Region Player to Watch following his sophomore season of 2010-11. Arevalo was also the C-USA Freshman of the Year and earned first team all-conference honors in both of his seasons with the Golden Hurricane.
In singles action at Wimbledon, Arvelo won his first round qualifying match with a 6-4, 7-6 (3) victory over Constant Lesiteene of France, but dropped his second round match against Matthew Barton of Australia, 6-3, 6-4.
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