DAVIS, Calif. - Nevada Men's Tennis wrapped a weekend of fall tennis action at the UC Davis Invitational Sunday.
The Wolf Pack's weekend was highlighted by the doubles tandem of Masato Kano and
Sebastiano Cressi winning its first two matches of Flight B to reach the final. After victories of 8-5 and 8-7 (1) over pairs from Menlo College and Santa Clara, respectively, Kato and Cressi's run was stopped with an 8-4 defeat in the final to Mahir Khurana and Derek Hafiz of Sacramento State.
The Wolf Pack returns to action at the ITA Mountain Regional Championships in Las Vegas, set for Oct. 15-20.
Nevada Results
Singles
Flight A
R16 - Luca Lemaitre Vilchis (SCU) def.
Nicolas Recoura (NEV) 6-2, 7-5
Flight B
R16 - Robin McAlpine (Menlo) def.
Sebastiano Cressi (NEV) 6-4, 6-2
Greg Valente (NEV) def. Derek Hafiz (CP) 6-0, 6-2
QF - Oscar Rashez (GON) def. Valente 7-5, 7-6 (5)
Flight C
R16 - Francisco Duran (SMC) def. Masato Kano (NEV) 6-2, 6-2
Saturday Consolation
Cressi (NEV) def. Doni Gashi (SAC) 6-0, 6-1
Kato (NEV) def. Vadim Francois (WJ) 6-2, 6-3
Recoura (NEV) def. David Dai (SAC) 4-6, 6-1, 1-0 (5)
Sunday Consolation
Winston Wooin Lee (CAL) def. Valente (NEV) 6-1, 6-2
Recoura (NEV) def. Freddie Healey (SAC) 6-1, 6-2
Adryan Ballestero (SAC) def. Kato (NEV) 6-4, 6-7 (6), 1-0 (8)
Cressi (NEV) def. Justin Powell (SAC) 6-4, 6-2
Doubles
Flight A
R16 - Aney/Lee (CAL) def. Recoura/Valente (NEV) 8-5
Flight B
QF - Kato/Cressi (NEV) def. Espinosa Navarro/Valdivieso (Menlo) 8-5
SF - Kato/Cressi (NEV) def. Khurana/Hafiz (SCU) 8-7 (1)
Final - Duris/Whitehead (SAC) def. Kato/Cressi (NEV) 8-4
Saturday Consolation
Eliscu/Seetso (CP) def. Recoura/Valente (NEV) 8-6