Sept. 23, 2008

LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech men's tennis doubles team of Michael Breler and Sinisa Markovic fell, 6-4, 6-4, to the duo of Michael McClune and Stephen Amritraj in the first round of the $50,000 Lubobock Challenger's main draw Tuesday at Tech's McLeod Tennis Center.

Markovic and Breler would go up 3-0 early in the first set, before surrendering five-straight games. The Red Raiders were tied 3-3 in the second set but would drop three of the next four games to close the match.

Tech's two other doubles teams will both be in action Wednesday, beginning at around 4 p.m., as David Gonzalez and Gonzalo Escobar will face the draw's top-seeded team of Dusan Vemic and Alex Bogomolob Jr. Christian Rojmar and Raony Carvalho will face Todd Widom and Jesse Witten in the second round of the main draw.

For more information on the $50,000 Lubbock Challenger, please visit www.atptennis.com or www.lubbockchallenger.com.