Mississippi State tennis player Giovanni Oradini won his first match Wednesday to start the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Oradini, ranked No. 24, waited out a rain delay of more than three hours and beat TCU’s 86th-ranked Luc Fomba 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Oradini will face No. 29 Gabriel Decamps of UCF in the next round at a time to be determined Thursday. He is the only Bulldog competing at the event.
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