Owls Open Strongly at Fall Challenge
10/27/2022 9:26:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Win six of eight matches on Thursday
In Brief: Rice won four of six singles matches and both doubles matches on the first day of the 2022 Rice Fall Challenge at the George R. Brown Tennis Center.
The Details: The format of the Fall Challenge matches teams in both singles and doubles each day while not facing the same team in both. Facing BYU in singles, Rice picked up straight-set wins by Yasha Zemel, Kabeer Kapasi and Eduardo Morais while Trinity Grear won in three sets. Kapasi and Zemel combined on a doubles win over Texas A&M Corpus Christi as did Grear and Wes Barnett.
Rice Fall Challenge
10/27-30/2022 at Houston, Texas (George R. Brown Tennis Center)
Singles competition
Yasha Zemel def. Wally Thayne (BYU) 6-4, 6-4
Mateo Vereau (BYU) def. Emir Sendogan 7-6, 7-6
Trinity Grear def. Dominik Jakovljevic (BYU) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
Zach Fuchs (BYU) def. Wes Barnett 6-1, 6-3
Kabeer Kapasi def. Redd Owen (BYU) 6-3, 6-1
Eduardo Morais def. Alex Lin (BYU) 6-2, 6-4
Doubles competition
Wes Barnett/Trinity Grear def. Tomas Quesada Perez/Avery Zavala (Texas AM Corpus Christi) 8-5
Kabeer Kapasi/Yasha Zemel def. Ulysse Bertrand/Nathan Schwartz (Texas AM Corpus Christi) 8-5
Zach Fuchs/Wally Thayne (BYU) def. Liam Krall/Alex Stafford (SMU) 8-5
Brigham Andrus/Mateo Vereau (BYU) def. Tomás Pinho/Garrett Skelly (UTSA) 8-4
Alex Lin/Dominik Jakovljevic (BYU) def. Blaine Hovenier/Kyle Sillman (SMU) 8-7
Brian Chen/Redd Owen (BYU) def. Miguel Alonso/Danijal Muminovic (UTSA) 8-4
Liam Krall/Alex Stafford (SMU) def. Tomás Pinho/Garrett Skelly (UTSA) 8-5
Blaine Hovenier/Kyle Sillman (SMU) def. Miguel Alonso/Danijal Muminovic (UTSA) 8-7
Up Next: Rice and Texas A&M Corpus Christi will each send two doubles teams into action vs BYU while two doubles teams from UTSA and SMU will face off at 10 a.m. Singles action is slated to start at 1 p.m. with eight singles matches featuring BYU against Corpus and UTSA while SMU and Rice will battle in four singles matches. Play continues through Sunday at the George R. Brown Tennis Center.
The Details: The format of the Fall Challenge matches teams in both singles and doubles each day while not facing the same team in both. Facing BYU in singles, Rice picked up straight-set wins by Yasha Zemel, Kabeer Kapasi and Eduardo Morais while Trinity Grear won in three sets. Kapasi and Zemel combined on a doubles win over Texas A&M Corpus Christi as did Grear and Wes Barnett.
Rice Fall Challenge
10/27-30/2022 at Houston, Texas (George R. Brown Tennis Center)
Singles competition
Yasha Zemel def. Wally Thayne (BYU) 6-4, 6-4
Mateo Vereau (BYU) def. Emir Sendogan 7-6, 7-6
Trinity Grear def. Dominik Jakovljevic (BYU) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
Zach Fuchs (BYU) def. Wes Barnett 6-1, 6-3
Kabeer Kapasi def. Redd Owen (BYU) 6-3, 6-1
Eduardo Morais def. Alex Lin (BYU) 6-2, 6-4
Doubles competition
Wes Barnett/Trinity Grear def. Tomas Quesada Perez/Avery Zavala (Texas AM Corpus Christi) 8-5
Kabeer Kapasi/Yasha Zemel def. Ulysse Bertrand/Nathan Schwartz (Texas AM Corpus Christi) 8-5
Zach Fuchs/Wally Thayne (BYU) def. Liam Krall/Alex Stafford (SMU) 8-5
Brigham Andrus/Mateo Vereau (BYU) def. Tomás Pinho/Garrett Skelly (UTSA) 8-4
Alex Lin/Dominik Jakovljevic (BYU) def. Blaine Hovenier/Kyle Sillman (SMU) 8-7
Brian Chen/Redd Owen (BYU) def. Miguel Alonso/Danijal Muminovic (UTSA) 8-4
Liam Krall/Alex Stafford (SMU) def. Tomás Pinho/Garrett Skelly (UTSA) 8-5
Blaine Hovenier/Kyle Sillman (SMU) def. Miguel Alonso/Danijal Muminovic (UTSA) 8-7
Up Next: Rice and Texas A&M Corpus Christi will each send two doubles teams into action vs BYU while two doubles teams from UTSA and SMU will face off at 10 a.m. Singles action is slated to start at 1 p.m. with eight singles matches featuring BYU against Corpus and UTSA while SMU and Rice will battle in four singles matches. Play continues through Sunday at the George R. Brown Tennis Center.
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