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Thursday Regional Recap: Elliott Yee upsets Pennington, Dzulynsky over Spec, Surat over Krickovic

by | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog

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Several regionals opened up today and it didn’t take long for a few upsets to take place with the #1, #6, and #7 seeds getting beat in the 1st round of the Ohio Valley Regional in Knoxville.

Indiana senior Elliott Yee pulled off the biggest upset when he beat the #1 seed Kentucky’s Beck Pennington 6-3, 6-4 in the 1st round. This was also a Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) upset as well with Yee having a 11.91 UTR while Pennington’s is 13.71.

Purdue junior Ricky Medinilla (12.66) upended the #6 seed Vanderbilt’s Rhys Johnson (13.35) 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 in the 1st round and Austin Peay junior Aaron Jumonville (12.29) knocked out the #7 seed Indiana’s Daniel Bednarczyk (13.05) 7-5, 7-6(6).

The #1 seed in the Central Regional (Fayetteville, AR) also got upset as Nebraska’s Andrew Dzulynsky (12.18) took out #1 Minnesota’s Matic Spec (14.03) 6-4, 6-4 in the 2nd round. All other seeds players advanced to the 3rd round in Fayetteville.

The #1 seed in the Southern Regional (Tuscaloosa, AL) went down as Southern Mississippi’s Tarun Surat (12.42) upset the #1 seed Auburn’s Marko Krickovic (13.50) 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 in the 2nd round of play. The other high seed to lose was the #3 seed LSU’s Tam Trinh (12.88) as he fell to Tulane’s Tyler Schick (12.97) 6-2, 6-1.

The seeds faired pretty well on the opening day of the Southwest Regional in Malibu though the #3 seed San Diego’s Filip Vittek (13.51) lost to UCSB’s Anders Holm (13.08) 7-6(5), 6-4. The rest of the opening day results are below.

Singles – Round of 128

  • David Laser (USC) def. Scotland Garapedian (Pepperdine), 6-2, 6-1
  • Justin Aghavani (UC Irvine) def.Michael Guzman (UCLA), 6-1, 6-3
  • Kalman Boyd (USC) def. Karl Enander (Cal Poly), 6-3, 6-3
  • Cody Rakela (UCSB) def. Jonathan Hammel (UC Irvine), 6-2, 7-6 (2)
  • Jack Jaede (USC) def. Logan Hall (Pepperdine), 6-1, 6-1
  • Miles Seemann (UCSB) def. Joakim Pinola (Hawai’i), 6-1, 6-2
  • Austin Rapp (UCLA) def. Rafael Lira (Grand Canyon), 6-2, 6-0
  • Joshua Ortlio (Cal Poly) def. Tanner Smith (USC), Withdraw
  • Andrew Riminton (UCSB) def. Max Cressy (UCLA), Did Not Play
  • Robbie Bellamy (USC) def. Jamie Thoro (LMU), 6-0, 6-0
  • Igor Kolaric (Hawai’i) def. James Ponwith (San Diego), 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
  • Srevas Kolachalam (Cal Poly) def. Gregoire Balenci (Grand Canyon), 6-2, 6-0
  • Joat Farah (LMU) def. Raul De LaTorre (San Diego State), 7-6 (6), 1-6, 6-2
  • Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA) def. Luca Marquard (Irvine), 6-3, 7-6 (TB not marked – will update)
  • Jake DeVine (USC) def. Adrian Legarreta (Grand Canyon), 6-2, 7-6 (2)
  • Oliver Sec (UCSB) def. Trent Botha (Arizona), 7-6 (4), 6-4
  • Ryoto Tachi (UCLA) def. Gabriel Sidney (Pepperdine), 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1
  • Tyler Pham (UC Irvine) def. Henry Ji (USC), 2-6, 6-4, 6-1
  • Luke Bohuslav (LMU) def. Marcel Chan (Hawai’i), 6-3, 6-2
  • Axel Damiens (Cal Poly) def. Jonas Meinzer (San Diego State), 7-5, 6-2
  • Tom Hill (Pepperdine) def. Nikolai Storch (Hawai’i), 6-0, 6-2
  • Vatsal Bajpai (UC Irvine) def. Chase Masciorini (UCSB), 6-4, 6-0
  • Jason Jaruvang (Arizona) def. Santiago Cevallos (San Diego State), 6-3, 7-6(6)
  • Lukas Moenter (LMU) def. Alexandros Araouzos (San Diego), 6-1, 6-1
  • fGuilherme Galvao (Pepperdine) def. Spencer Travallino (Hawai’i), 7-5, 7-6 (3)
  • Marko Goles Babic (San Diego State) def. Pratt Keerasuntonpong (San Diego), 6-2, 6-2
  • Sander Gjoels-Andersen (San Diego State) def. Alexander Bourgeois (LMU), 6-3, 6-3
  • Anders Holm (UCSB) def. Ruben Blattner (Hawai’i), 6-4, 6-0
  • Lautaro Pane (Pepperdine) def. Alexander Roggenkamp (Grand Canyon), 6-4, 6-2
  • Thibault Forget (USC) def. Riley Scott (UCSB), 6-3, 6-1
  • Teague Hamilton (UCSB) def. Meidy Chazeau (Grand Canyon), 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
  • Timothy Tan (Cal Poly) def. Justin Cvitanovic (Grand Canyon), 6-4, 6-2
  • Romain Kalaydjian (San Diego) def. Connor Farren (USC), 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5)


Singles – Round of 64

  • Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (UCSB) def. David Laser (USC), 6-1, 6-0
  • [11] Jordan Angus (San Diego) def. Srevas Kolachalam (Cal Poly), 6-1, 6-2
  • [1] Naoki Takeda (Arizona) def. Igor Kolaric (Hawai’i), 3-6, 6-0, 6-0
  • Morgan Mays (UCSB) def. Justin Agbavani (UC Irvine), 6-4, 7-6 (2)
  • [7] Hendrik Jebens (San Diego State) def.Kalman Boyd (USC), 6-3, 6-4
  • Stefan Menichella (Pepperdine) def. Cody Rakela (UCSB), 6-1, 6-2
  • Mitchell Maroscher (Grand Canyon) def. Jack Jaede (USC), 6-3, 7-5
  • Pedro Iamachkine (Pepperdine) def. Jake DeVine (USC), 7-5, 1-6, 7-5
  • [12] Errol Smith (LMU) def. Miles Seemann (UCSB), 6-3, 6-4
  • Logan Smith (USC) def. Joseph Di Giulio (UCLA), 6-3, 6-7 (7), 7-5 (5)
  • [5] Max de Vroome (USC) def. Austin Rapp (UCLA), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
  • Garrett Auproux (Cal Poly) def. Oliver Sec (UCSB), 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
  • [9] Sebastian Heim (UC Irvine) def. Joshua Ortlio (Cal Poly), 7-5, 7-6 (8)
  • Rvoto Tachi (UCLA) def. Felix Albert (Hawai’i) 6-2, 6-0
  • Kai Wehnelt (Hawai’i) def. Andrew Riminton (UCSB), 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (3)
  • Robbie Bellamy (USC) def. [14] Joshua Page (San Diego) 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)
  • Tyler Pham (UC Irvine) def. Milen Ianakiev (San Diego State), 6-2, 6-1
  • Nathan Eshmade (UCSB) def. Luke Bohuslav (LMU), 6-2, 6-1
  • [16] Harry Busby (Arizona) def. Axel Damiens (Cal Poly), 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
  • Thibault Forget (USC) def. Cristobal Rivera (LMU), 6-2, 6-3
  • [4] Martin Redlicki (UCLA) def. Tom Hill (Pepperdine), 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
  • Corey Pang (Cal Poly) def. Vatsal Bajpai (UC Irvine), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
  • [10] Guilherme Hadlich (Pepperdine) def. Jason Jaruvang (Arizona), 6-4, 6-1
  • Felix Schueller (Grand Canyon) def.Lukas Moenter (LMU), 4-6, 6-2, 6-0
  • Frederik Gelbrich (San Diego State) def. Guilherme Galvao (Pepperdine), 6-1, 6-0
  • [13] Karue Wiele Sell (UCLA) def. Teague Hamilton (UCSB), 6-2, 6-0
  • Marko Goles Babic (San Diego State) def. Timothy Tan (Cal Poly), 6-4, 6-3
  • [2] Nicholas Crystal (USC) def. Sander Gjoels-Andersen (San Diego State), 6-3, 6-4
  • Logan Staggs (UCLA) def. Joat Farah (LMU), 7-6 (2), 3-6, 7-6 (4)
  • Anders Holm (UCSB) def. [3] Filip Vittek (San Diego), 7-6(5), 6-4
  • Benjamin Donovan (Cal Poly) def. Lautaro Pane (Pepperdine), 6-3, 6-4
  • Romain Kalaydjian (San Diego) def. Nico Mertens (UC Irvine), 6-2, 6-4

First round play gets started on Friday in the Atlantic, Carolina, and Southeast Regionals.  For draws of all regionals check out my post from Wednesday.