It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Day two at the NCAA singles championships saw one of the Stanford men’s tennis team’s All-Americans play in his final collegiate singles match while another gained All-American status for the first time.

Senior All-American and eight-ranked David Martin bowed out in the second round while freshman KC Corkery advanced to the third round by destroying Kentucky’s Jesse Witten, last year’s finalist.

Any player who reaches the third round of NCAAs earns the title of All-American.

“That was the nice thing about KC’s win,” associate head coach John Whitlinger said. “Now we have three All-Americans — Dave, [Scott] Lipsky and KC.

“It’s pretty cool to get All-American status as a freshman. It’s great for our program and KC feels good about it. He had to earn it. He had to beat a very good player to get it.”

The 49th ranked Corkery dropped only one game to No. 9 Witten, posting a surprisingly easy 6-1, 6-0 victory.

“KC just played great,” Whitlinger said. “He controlled the points, he stayed with what he could do, worked the ball and didn’t give Witten any chance to get back into the match.

Next up for Corkery will be an even more daunting task — taking on No. 2 Benedikt Dorsch from Baylor.

“It’ll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow,” Whitlinger said. “I’ve seen Dorsch play some great tennis. He’s been ranked No. 1 and No. 2 for the majority of the year. Dorsh hits a much heavier ball than Witten, so it’ll be a tough one.”

No. 8 Martin was upset 6-1, 6-3 by San Diego State’s Oliver Maiberger.

“Maiberger is tough match-up for Dave,” senior All-American Lipsky said. “He struggles against guys like Maiberger who make a lot of balls and don’t attack.”

“Dave got to a little bit of a slow start,” Whitlinger said. “He

almost got back into it, but Maiberger played a very good match.”

The NCAA doubles tournament also got underway yesterday. Lipsky and Martin, the No. 4 seeds, defeated New Mexico’s 27th ranked Brent Salazar and Ryan Stotland 7-6, 6-2 in the opening round.

“Dave and Lip played okay,” Whitlinger said. “The first set they weren’t returning very well.

“You give the opponents more confidence the longer you let them stay in the match. Then anything can happen in a tiebreaker. Luckily, Dave and Lip won the breaker and started rolling after that.”

Today Lipsky and Martin take on the winner of the match between Old Dominion’s Zoltan Csanadi and Izak Van der Merwe and Georgia’s Nicholas Boeker and Bo Hodge.