ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Members of the Washington University in St. Louis men's tennis team claimed both the singles and doubles titles in the top brackets at the WTN Open at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center on Sunday. Both were an all-WashU matchups.
Singles
Flight 1
In the all-WashU final, sophomore
Jeremy Sieben bounced back after dropping the first set to defeat first-year
Jerry Han, 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (4) to win the Flight 1 bracket.
Flight 2
Senior
Nathan Tam fell in a hard battle against Maksim Chernogorov, 6-0, 6-2 in the final of the bracket.
Flight 4
Sophomore
Hans Deng dropped his first set in the final and was down a break in the second before retiring from the match, 6-0, 1-0.
Doubles
Flight A
Sieben and first-year
Jonah Becker took down Luca Morbioli and Lorenzo Biava 8-3 to reach the final. In the other half of the bracket, Tam and junior
Drew Koval picked up an 8-3 win over Heitor Souto and Lukas Pieringer.
In the final, Koval and Tam toughed out an 8-6 win over Sieben and Becker to claim the title.
Flight B
Sophomore
Ethan Wu and first-year
Yuanye Ma dropped their semifinal match, 8-3, against Ruslan Anurev and Samuel Sanchez. The other half saw senior
Daniel Radke and sophomore
Spencer Yamamoto fall to Chernogorov and Michel Delaloye, 8-3, the semifinals.
WashU wrapped up its fall action with the WTN Open and kicks off the spring portion of their schedule on Saturday, Jan. 30 against Wisconsin-Whitewater. The match is scheduled for a 5 p.m. start at the Chesterfield Athletic Center.
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