Pepperdine University
UC Santa Barbara
#21 Waves Blank #61 UC Santa Barbara, 7-0
1/22/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Jan. 22, 2011
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. - The #21 Pepperdine men's tennis team blanked #61 UC Santa Barbara, 7-0, in today's dual-season opener held at North Ranch Country Club. The Waves have now won the last three-consecutive season starting contests.
Sebastian Fanselow (Essen, Germany) and Jenson Turner (Woodland Hill, Calif./Campbell Hall HS) struck first in doubles, picking up an 8-1 win over Philip Therp and Evan Jergensen.
Pepperdine had to work hard to secure the doubles point, however, as both remaining Wave tandems struggled to break the Gauchos' serve. Alex Llompart (Carolina, Puerto Rico) and Alfredo Moreno (Queretaro, Mexico) clinched the point after outscoring Mathieu Forget and Benjamin Recknagel 7-4 in the tiebreaker.
Hugh Clarke (Brisbane, Australia) and Finn Tearney (Wellington, New Zealand), who are ranked #35 in the Campbell/ITA collegiate doubles rankings, faced off with Taylor Chavez Goggin and Alex Konigsfeldt in the No. 1 doubles spot. The Pepperdine pair went up a break at 6-5, thanks in part the solid serve returns, but couldn't seal the match as the Gauchos got their first break to tie the score at seven games all. Two games later, the duos found themselves in a tiebreaker situation.
Clarke and Tearney owned the tiebreaker, sprinting to a 6-0 lead. UCSB erased one match point following a Pepperdine double fault, but the Waves quickly rebounded and tallied the seventh point with a forced Gaucho error.
Pepperdine carried the momentum into singles, winning all six matches. Moreno finished first, playing at No. 5 singles slot, topping Max Glen, 6-4, 7-6. Llompart gave the Waves a 3-0 lead after delivering a 6-2, 7-5 victory against Recknagel. Llompart currently sits at #40 in the singles rankings.
Turner clinched the dual for Pepperdine, after beating Taylor Chavez Goggin in two sets, while Mousheg Hovhannisyan (North Hollywood, Calif./Continental Academy) finished just moments later after slipping past Therp 7-5, 7-6.
Playing No. 1 singles, Tearney found himself going game-for-game with Forget. After taking the first set in the tiebreaker, the #112-ranked sophomore posted a 6-4 score in the second.
Fanselow also found himself in a close match, winning set one versus Konigsfeldt 6-4, before suffering a 7-5 defeat in the second. The #14-ranked Fanselow prevailed in the third and deciding frame 6-4.
The Waves continue this weekend's action tomorrow for a noon dual at UC Irvine.
#21 Pepperdine 7, #61 UC Santa Barbara 0
Doubles
No. 1 #35 Finn Tearney/Hugh Clarke def. Chavez Goggin/Konigsfeldt, 9-8 (1)
No. 2 Alex Llompart/Alfredo Moreno def. Forget/Recknagel, 9-8 (4)
No. 3 Sebastian Fanselow/Jenson Turner def. Therp/Jurgensen, 8-1
Order of Finish: 3, 2, 1
Singles
No. 1 #112 Finn Tearney def. Mattieu Forget, 7-6 (5), 6-4
No. 2 #14 Sebastian Fanselow def. Alex Konigsfeldt, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
No. 3 #40 Alex Llompart def. Benjamin Recknagel, 6-2, 7-5
No. 4 Jenson Turner def. Taylor Chavez Goggin, 6-4, 7-6 (2)
No. 5 Alfredo Moreno def. Max Glenn, 6-4, 7-6 (2)
No. 6 Mousheg Hovhannisyan def. Philip Therp, 7-5, 7-6 (4)
Order of Finish: 5, 3, 4, 6, 1, 2
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