Friday, February 17
Pasadena, CA
3:00 PM
UC Santa Cruz Athletics
3
at
6
Caltech
Senior Sam Hall won his second dual singles match of the Spring
Men's tennis pushes 16th-ranked Caltech to limit in 6-3 loss
2/17/2023 6:00:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Hall wins at both double and singles
PASADENA - No. 39 UC Santa Cruz opened their three-match roadtrip with a 6-3 loss to 16th-ranked Caltech.
The duo of Sam Hall and Andre Mardirossian opened the Dual with an 8-5 at No. 2 doubles. However, the Beavers pulled out the next two matches to have a 2-1 lead going into Singles. Straight-set victories by Praneet Varade and Hall tied the match at 3-3. After the Beavers won another to take a 4-3 lead, the last two matches went extra. Lucas Chen forced long rallies from Caltech's Kyle McCandless, the 19th-ranked player in the West Region. McCandless however came back to win 6-4, 6-4. The final match at No. 2 Singles also went long before Ishaan Kannan edged Mardirossian 6-1, 1-6, 4-6.
UC Santa Cruz (2-2) continues the Los Angeles excursion with a matchup at ninth-ranked Pomona-Pitzer on Saturday.
Team Stats
#1 Doubles Match
#2 Doubles Match
#3 Doubles Match
Order of Finish:
2,3,1
#1 Singles Match
12
64
Kyle McCandless / 0 [CALTECH]
76
#2 Singles Match
123
614
Ishaan Kannan / 0 [CALTECH]
166
#3 Singles Match
12
66
Andrew Zabelo / 0 [CALTECH]
02
#4 Singles Match
12
00
Daniel Wen / 0 [CALTECH]
66
#5 Singles Match
12
66
Victor Li / 0 [CALTECH]
20
#6 Singles Match
12
23
Rishi Gundakaram / 0 [CALTECH]
66
Order of Finish:
4,5,3,6,1,2
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