MALIBU, Calif. - No. 24 Pepperdine men's tennis earned another pair of West Coast Conference (WCC) weekly awards, as announced today by the conference.
 
Gustavo Ribeiro de Almeida earned Freshman of the Week honors, while Lasse Poertner and Aleksa Pisaric claimed Doubles Team of the Week.
 
Poertner and Pisaric teamed up to take down Stanford's Jagger Leach and Alex Chang (6-3), helping the Waves win the doubles point and secure a 4-0 victory over the No. 4-ranked Cardinals last Friday. The duo then turned around and defeated UCLA's Aadarsh Tripathi and Spencer Johnson on Saturday by a final of 6-3.
 
Almeida was part of a doubles team with Maxi Homberg that handled business against Stanford's Alexander Razeghi and Mark Krupkin by a final of 6-2. Almeida also defeated UCLA's  Tripathi in a pair of sets on Saturday (7-5, 6-4) to get the Waves on the board.
 
West Coast Conference Weekly Awards (Feb. 10)
Singles – Max Wuelfing, Sr., LMU
Doubles - Aleksa Pisaric, So., and Lasse Poertner, So., Pepperdine
Freshman - Gustavo Ribeiro de Almeida, Fr., Pepperdine
 
The Waves return to action on the road this Friday at 1:30 p.m. PT against No. 21 USC.
 
ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN'S TENNIS
Pepperdine men's tennis has a longstanding tradition of success, highlighted by an NCAA Championship in 2006 which came 54 years after its first NAIA Championship in 1952. Robbie Weiss recorded the program's first NCAA singles championship in 1988 after the program saw doubles national championships in 1984 and 1985. 44-time WCC Champions, Pepperdine has reached 40 NCAA Tournaments and six NCAA Regionals in its history with 53 total All-Americans.
 
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