TEMPE, Ariz. – Men’s Tennis wrapped day two at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships.
Arizona kicked off the day with the first round of doubles. Freshman and sophomore duo Matthias Kask and Cole Stelse fell to Mikel Anderson and Nicola Cigna (ASU) in an 8-7(4) tiebreaker. Wildcat duos Sasha Rozin / Zoran Ludoski, Casper Christensen / Iñaki Cabrera-Bello and Filip Gustafsson / Oskar Jansson each have a bye and will begin in the round of 32 tomorrow.
In the round of 64 of singles play, Christensen defeated his opponent, Zach Stephens, 6-2, 6-2 to advance. Later that afternoon, Rozin took down Rithvik Krishna (UC Irvine) 6-4, 6-0. Also advancing to the round of 32 will be freshmen Zoran Ludoski, taking down Chris Papa (Pepperdine) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(6), and Oskar Jansson, who was victorious over Martin Vergara Del Puerto 6-2, 7-5.
Cabrera-Bello fell in singles play 6-3, 5-7, 4-6 to Sebastian Nothaft of Loyola Marymount. Kask fell 6-7(12), 3-6 to Linus Carlsson Halldin of Pepperdine after a 14 point breaker in the first set. Stelse lost his battle to Tanner Povey of ASU 4-6, 2-6, and Gustafsson fell to Diogo Morais of UCSB 4-6, 4-6. The Cats will continue play through the consolation draw.
Arizona will begin the second round of singles and doubles play Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. MST.
Saturday, October 19
Doubles, starting at 9 a.m.
Rozin/Ludoski vs. Loizas/Volonski (GCU)
Christensen/Cabrera-Bello vs. Willwerth/Ginat (ASU)
Gustafsson/Jansson vs. Vergara Del Puerto/Phillips ((ASU)
Singles, starting at 10 a.m.
Christensen vs. Josserand (SDSU)
Rozin vs. Brunkow (UCSB)
Jansson vs. Ballota (UCLA)
Ludoski vs. Rolland (UCSB)
Singles (Consol.)
Stelse vs. Kamyshev (Cal Poly)
Cabrera-Bello vs. Collins (Hawai’i)
Gustafsson vs. Brown (UCSB)
Kask vs. Papa (Pepperdine)
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