Freshman Seydina Andre leads three Seminoles into ITA Southeast Regional quarterfinals

Florida State men's tennis won 11 matches at the ITA Men's Southeast Regional Championship at Georgia Tech's Ken Byers Tennis Complex, and three Seminoles reached the quarterfinals of their draws, per seminoles.com.

Andre's run

True freshman Seydina Andre earned a spot in the main draw and won three straight singles matches to reach the quarterfinals: 6-1, 6-2 over Georgia Tech's Jonathan Irwanto, 6-3, 6-2 in the round of 32 and 6-4, 7-5 over UCF's Wissam Abderrahman. He lost in the quarterfinals to Georgia's Noah Johnston. Andre and Mikail Alimli also won a round-of-32 doubles match, 8-3.

Lyons and Rusher in doubles

Justin Lyons and Azariah Rusher beat Florida Atlantic's Jan Kusy and Lucca Acioly 8-4, then South Florida's Ashton McLeod and Guglielmo Verdese 8-6 to reach the doubles quarterfinals, where they lost 8-3. Lyons also won a singles match, 6-3, 6-3 over Mercer's Pablo Paternostro, to reach the main draw.

Other wins

Gabor Hornung and Oren Ezerzer each won two singles matches. Hornung's included an upset of South Florida's Verdese in the round of 64, and Ezerzer beat Florida Atlantic's Kusy 6-3, 6-4. Hornung and Ezerzer also won a doubles match together. Elias Sumann won twice in qualifying to reach the main draw, then won a three-setter in the round of 64.

Next

FSU hosts the ITA South Sectional Championships at the Speicher Tennis Center from Nov. 5 to 8, per the release.

Sources: seminoles.com