PALO ALTO, California – The #20 Pepperdine men's tennis program got off to a fast start and held off a late Georgia Tech charge on Monday afternoon, defeating the Yellow Jackets 4-1 at the Taube Family Tennis Center for its first win of the season in the Waves' final match of the ITA Kick-Off event.
Pepperdine (1-2) opened doubles with a 6-2 win on court two thanks to
Maxi Homberg (Freising, Germany) and
Eero Vasa (Turku, Finland). With Georgia Tech (5-2) holding a match point on court one,
Pietro Fellin (Milan, Italy) and
Eric Hadigian (Sacramento, Calif.) secured the doubles point for the Waves with a 6-3 win on court three.
The Waves kept the pressure on in singles, winning five first sets, but the Yellow Jackets fought back to stay in it. Homberg earned a 6-1, 7-5 win on court four over Rohan Sachdev, but GT answered with a straight-set win of their own on court one to cut the Waves' lead to 2-1. Fellin won a 6-2, 6-4 decision on court six over Elias Shokry to give Pepperdine a commanding 3-1 lead, and Vasa finished GT off by defeating Keshav Chopra 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 on court three to give the Waves a 4-1 win.
RESULTS
DOUBLES
#34
De Jonge/Zeitvogel vs. Martin/McDaniel 4-5 unfinished
Homberg/Vasa def. Chopra/Shokry 6-2
Fellin/Hadigian def. Sachdev/McKinney 6-3
Order of finish: 2, 3
SINGLES
#72 Martin def. #31
De Jonge 6-3, 6-2
#94
Zeitvogel vs. McDaniel 6-4, 5-7, 0-1 unfinished
Vasa def. Chopra 6-1, 2-6, 6-3
Homberg def. Sachdev 6-1, 7-5
Hadigian vs. Shokry 7-5, 1-6, 3-3 unfinished
Fellin def. Bauer 6-2, 6-4
Order of finish: 4, 1, 6, 3*
NEXT UP: Pepperdine stays on the road next weekend, visiting Arizona on Friday, February 3 at 11 a.m. PT and Arizona State on Sunday, February 5 at 12 p.m. PT.
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