Cal Falls To No. 16 Florida State, 5-2

Yuta Kikuchi won in doubles and singles on Sunday in Hawaii.

MTEN1/8/2023 5:37 PM | By: Cal Athletics

HONOLULU – Despite winning the doubles point and getting a singles victory from Yuta Kikuchi, the California men’s tennis team fell to No. 16 Florida State, 5-2, in the Golden Bears’ dual-match opener on Sunday at the UH Tennis Complex.
 
Cal opens 2023 with a 0-1 record, while FSU is now 2-0.
 
In doubles, the pair of Kikuchi and Phillip Hjorth defeated Andreja Petrovic and Loris Pourroy on court three, 6-2. With Cal’s Siddhant Banthia and Carl Emil Overbeck close to winning on court one – the Bears were serving at match point – Ryder Jackson and Lucas Magnaudet beat FSU’s Maks Silagy and Joshua Dous-Karpenschif, 6-3, on court two to clinch the doubles point.
 
Kikuchi, playing at court-two singles, knocked off Pourroy, 6-1, 7-5. But FSU won the remaining five singles matches to beat the Bears.
 
Cal next plays in the one-day Hawaii Invitational, with the Bears battling players from Duke and host Hawaii starting at 10 a.m. HST on Monday at the UH Tennis Complex.
 
No. 16 Florida State (2-0) def. California (0-1), 5-2
Jan. 8, 2023, in Honolulu, Hawaii
Uh Tennis Complex
 
Doubles
1. Siddhant Banthia/Carl Emil Overbeck (Cal) vs. Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc/Barnaby Smith (FSU), 5-4 Unfinished
2. Ryder Jackson/Lucas Magnaudet (Cal) def. Maks Silagy/Joshua Dous-Karpenschif (FSU), 6-3*
3. Phillip Hjorth/Yuta Kikuchi (Cal) def. Andreja Petrovic/Loris Pourroy (FSU), 6-2
 
Order of Finish – 3, 2*
*Clinched the doubles point
 
Singles
1. No. 12 Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc (FSU) def. No. 52 Ryder Jackson (Cal), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
2. Yuta Kikuchi (Cal) def. Loris Pourroy (FS), 6-1, 7-5
3. Andreja Petrovic (FSU) def. Siddhant Banthia (Cal), 6-4, 7-6(6)
4. No. 24 Youcef Rihane (FSU) def. Carl Emil Overbeck (Cal), 6-1, 6-4
5. No. 53 Jamie Connel (FSU) def. Derrick Chen (Cal), 7-5, 7-6 (3)
6. Joshua Dous-Karpenschif (FSU) def. Lucas Magnaudet (Cal), 6-4, 7-5