Pepperdine Opens Season with 5-0 Win

Saturday, January 18

Malibu, Calif.

2:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

Santa Clara

Photo by: Kat Perry

1/18/2020 7:18:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine men's tennis team opened the 2020 dual season with a 5-0 blanking of West Coast Conference opponent Santa Clara on Saturday afternoon.

RESULTS
Pepperdine – 5, Santa Clara – 0
DOUBLES
1. Rico,Enrique Luque/Zeitvogel,Tim (PEPPM) def. No. 52 Vasileios Iliopoulos/Arthur Neuhaus (SCU) 6-3
2. Summaria,Corrado/Fellin, Pietro (PEPPM) vs. Mann Shah/Nick Cmager (SCU) 5-3, unfinished
3. Oetzbach,Adrian/Shelton,Robert (PEPPM) def. Jesus Barajas/Santiago Hinojosa (SCU) 6-3
Order of finish: 1, 3

SINGLES
1. #38 Summaria,Corrado (PEPPM) def. Jesus Barajas (SCU) 6-1, 6-1
2. Oetzbach,Adrian (PEPPM) vs. Arthur Neuhaus (SCU) 6-4, 3-1, unfinished
3. Rico,Enrique Luque (PEPPM) vs. Vasileios Iliopoulos (SCU) 6-3, 1-1, unfinished
4. Zeitvogel,Tim (PEPPM) def. Mann Shah (SCU) 6-1, 6-2
5. Shelton,Robert (PEPPM) def. Santiago Hinojosa (SCU) 6-2, 6-1
6. Fellin, Pietro (PEPPM) def. Nick Cmager (SCU) 6-2, 6-1
Order of finish: 1, 5, 6, 4

RECAP
In doubles action, the pair of Enrique Luque Rico and Tim Zeitvogel defeated the 52^nd-ranked doubles team in the country in Iliopoulos and Neuhaus 6-3 to take the first doubles match of the day. Adrian Oetzbach and Robert Shelton followed suit, beating Barajas and Hinojosa 6-3 to clinch the point for the Waves.

No match went into three sets in singles, as #38 Corrado Summaria took the first win in a 6-1, 6-1 battle over Barajas to put Pepperdine up 2-0 on the day. Next to finish was Shelton, who achieved his first dual singles win of his collegiate career over Hinojosa 6-2, 6-1.

It was Pietro Fellin who clinched the match point, as he defeated Cmager 6-2, 6-1, but was immediately followed by Zietvogel who won 6-1, 6-2 over Shah on court four.

UP NEXT
The Waves take on San Francisco and Sacramento State in a Malibu Sunday double-header, with Pepperdine taking on the Dons at noon and then the Hornets at 5 p.m. at Ralphs-Straus.