Hodge Reaches Quarterfinals At SEC Indoor Championship

January 18, 2003 | Men's Tennis

Jan. 18, 2003

NORCROSS, Ga. - Junior Bo Hodge came back from one-set deficits in a pair of matches to advance to the singles quarterfinals at the 2003 Southeastern Conference Coaches' Indoor Championship at the Racquet Club of the South in Norcross Thursday. Action begins at 8 a.m. on Saturday, with Hodge scheduled to take the court at 9:30 a.m.

Hodge, who is the eighth seed in the tournament and ranked No. 25 in the ITA Rankings, needed three sets in both his matches to advance to the quarterfinals. In his Round of 32 match, the Athens native topped Kentucky's Evan Austin 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, and later defeated Claes Lindholm of Ole Miss 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Senior Nicolas Boeker defeated Jason Hazely of LSU, 7-5 (5), 6-2 in the Round of 32, which set up a match with third-seeded Bobby Reynolds of Vanderbilt. Reynolds won the first set, but Boeker battled to take the second. In the end, the Commodore was too tough, as Boeker fell 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.