Nov. 8, 2002
SAN DIEGO - San Diego State's Ryan Redondo and Oliver Maiberger lost in tonight's men's doubles semifinals at the Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, the second of three national championships for collegiate tennis this season.
Redondo and Maiberger fell to Old Dominion's Zoltan Csandi and Isak Van der Merwe 9-7 in tonight's semis. They were attempting to become the first men to ever repeat as doubles champions at the Omni Hotels Intercollegiates.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, the nation's premier collegiate indoor tennis tournaments for Division I men and women, are presented by The Dallas Morning News and hosted by SMU at the Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch.
The Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships feature a 32-player singles field and 16-team doubles field for men and women, including: qualifiers from Omni Hotels Regional Championships held across the country during October, the Omni Hotels National Small College champions, the winners of the Icy Hot/ITA Men's and Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships and at-large and wild card selections made by the ITA National Tournament Committee. Overall, more than 10,000 players from nearly 600 schools participate annually in the Omni Hotels Regional and National Intercollegiate Championships.
Maiberger, who also qualified for the singles championship, lost in Thursday's first round to Sebastian Fitz of Auburn-Montgomery, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3