Oct. 17, 2015 TOURNAMENT CENTRAL
MALIBU, Calif. - The Pepperdine men's tennis team will send one doubles pair to the semifinals of the USTA/ITA Southwest Regional Championship tomorrow after a commanding victory in the quarterfinals this Saturday at Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center.
Sophomore duo Pedro Iamachkine and Lautaro Pane are still in contention for the regional title and will head to the semifinals against Joseph Di Giulio and Karue Wiele Sell of UCLA tomorrow at 10 a.m. The pair defeated 7th-seed Trent Botha and Naoki Takeda of Arizona this morning with a telling 8-4 final decision.
Junior Guilherme Hadlich and freshman Gabriel Sidney also fought it out in doubles, falling just short with an 8-7 (1) final mark to No. 1 seed and nationally ranked No. 17 Jordan Angus and Philip Vittek out of San Diego.
Both men, along with Iamachkine, also competed in the singles side this afternoon, Hadlich in the main draw and Sidney in the back draw.
Hadlich won his first match of the main draw this morning, defeating Felix Schueller of Grand Canyon by an outstanding 6-2, 6-1 final decision. He then lost in a heart-breaking quarterfinal match-up against nationally ranked No. 42 Nicholas Crystal from USC, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
Iamachkine fell in his first singles match this morning, dropping 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to USC's Logan Smith.
Sidney competed in the consolation round of 16, winning his way to the semifinals against San Diego's Philip Vittek, to be played tomorrow at 10:45 a.m. First today, he best Grand Canyon's Rafael Lira, 6-2, 6-1, and then he continue his winning ways against Luca Marquard of UC Irvine with a 6-1, 6-3 final score.
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