Pepperdine Defeats Penn To Close Weekend

Sunday, March 5

San Diego, Calif.

2:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

Penn

Photo by: Charlie Blake

3/5/2023 4:57:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: By Athletic Communications

SAN DIEGO, California – The Pepperdine men's tennis program won its fourth consecutive match and capped a successful week with a 4-1 win over Penn on Sunday afternoon at the Hogan Tennis Center.

Pepperdine (5-5) took leads on all three courts to begin doubles. Linus Carlsson Halldin (Stockholm, Sweden) and Pietro Fellin (Milan, Italy) took court three 6-1 to open the scoring. The Waves wasted no time clinching the doubles point from Penn (5-5), as Maxi Homberg (Freising, Germany) and Eero Vasa (Turku, Finland) won 6-3 on court two to give Pepperdine an early lead heading into singles.

Although the Waves only won two first sets to open singles, those two first set winners gave Pepperdine a 3-0 lead after Fellin defeated Baylor Sai 6-2, 7-5 on court six and Eric Hadigian (Sacramento, Calif.) took down Harsh Parikh 6-3, 6-3 on court four. Soon after, Penn earned their first point with a three-set win on court five.

The remaining three courts all went to third sets. Pepperdine took control in all three, as #61 Daniel De Jonge (Vlissingen, Netherlands) closed out the match with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory on the top court over #66 Edoardo Graziani.

RESULTS

DOUBLES

#36 De Jonge/Zeitvogel vs. #3 E. Graziani/Zhu 5-3 unfinished
Homberg/Vasa def. M.Graziani/Gupta 6-3
Carlsson Halldin/Fellin def. Lim/Sai 6-1

Order of finish: 3, 2

SINGLES

#61 De Jonge def. #66 E. Graziani 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
#124 Zeitvogel vs. Gupta 5-7, 6-1, 4-2 unfinished
Vasa vs. Zhu 2-6, 6-4, 5-4 unfinished
Hadigian def. Parikh 6-3, 6-3
M. Graziani def. Homberg 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
Fellin def. Sai 6-2, 7-5

Order of finish: 6, 4, 5, 1*

NEXT UP: Pepperdine will be back in action on Saturday, March 11 as the Waves host Oklahoma. First serve is scheduled for 2 p.m.

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