BATON ROUGE, La. –  San Diego Men's Tennis rebounded from a shaky start at the Battle in the Bayou hidden duals over the weekend, racking up several wins over highly-ranked opponents.
 
At tournament's end on Sunday, the Toreros topped No. 8 Columbia 6-3 between all of the day's singles and doubles matches. It was a positive ending for the Toreros that had come short the previous days.
 
The headlining win of the weekend came from Iiro Vasa and Stian Klaassen who topped ITA No. 21 duo Michael Zheng and Hugo Hashimoto 6-3. Vasa and Klassen also earned singles wins over top-100 Lions opponents.  
 
After sweeping the doubles matches to start the tournament Friday, the Toreros fell in each singles match for a grand score of 2-4 against LSU. USD split a singles and doubles match with Tulane while Stian Klaassen also fell in singles to defending national champion at TCU and ITA top-40 player Lui Maxted on day one.
 
On the second day of the tourney, the Toreros saw improved results, however narrowly falling to national No. 7 Tennessee, 2-4. USD also dropped two of three matches to Tulane. Klaassen again fell at No. 1 singles, this time to ITA No. 10 Shunsuke Mitsui.

Next Up
The Toreros will take their shot at one last attempt to qualify for the NCAA Individual Championships, Nov. 7-10 at the ITA West Sectional Championships in Malibu, Calif.. Oliver Tarvet (Singles and Doubles) and Stian Klaassen (Doubles) have already punched their tickets with the titles at the ITA All-American Championships in September.
 
Results
Friday, Nov. 1
 
San Diego 2, LSU 4
 
Doubles
Stian Klaassen/Blake Kasday (USD) def. Brock Anderson/Andrej Loncarevic (LSU) 6-3
Neo Niedner/Nikhil Niranjan (USD) def. Rudy Ceccon/Alessio Vasquez (LSU) 6-1
Iiro Vasa/Adrien Berrut (USD) def. Luka Petrovic/Luc Hoeijmans (Tulane), 7-4(3)
 
Singles
Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Stain Klaassen (USD) 6-1, 6-1
Julien Penzlin (LSU) def. Iiro Vasa (USD) 6-3, 6-3
Alessio Vasquez (LSU) def. Neo Niedner (USD) 6-1, 7-5
Brock Anderson (LSU) def. Blake Kasday (USD) 6-2, 7-6(4)
Andrej Loncarevic (LSU) def. Nikhil Niranjan (USD) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
Luc Hoeijmans (Tulane) def. Adrien Berrut (USD) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
 
Saturday, Nov. 2
 
San Diego 3, Tennessee 4
 
Doubles
Shunsuke Mitsui/Alan Jesudason (Tenn.) def. Iiro Vasa/Adrien Berrut (USD) 6-2
Stian Klaassen/Blake Kasday (USD) def. Alejandro Moreno/James Newton (Tenn.) 6-3
Maxim Kalinin/Steven Rice (Tulane) def. Neo Niedner/Nikhil Niranjan (USD) 7-6(5)
 
Singles
Shunsuke Mitsui (Tenn.) def. Stian Klaassen (USD) 6-0, 6-2
Ian Cruz (Tenn.) def. Adrien Berrut (USD) 6-0, 6-3
Blake Kasday (USD) def. Maxim Kalinin (Tulane) 6-1, 6-4
Iiro Vasa (USD) def. Jose Garcia (Tenn.) 6-0, 7-6(7)
Steven Rice (Tulane) def. Nikhil Niranjan (USD) 6-2, 6-2
Alejandro Moreno (Tenn.) def. Neo Niedner (USD) 6-4, 7-6(5)
 
Sunday, Nov. 3
 
Doubles
Iiro Vasa/Stian Klaassen (USD) def. Hugo Hashimoto/Michael Zheng (Columbia), 6-3
Neo Niedner/Nikhil Niranjan (USD) def. Jordan Chang/Sachin Palta (Columbia), 6-4
Adrien Berrut/Blake Kasday (USD) def. Jayden Templeman/Thanaphat Boosarawongse (Columbia), 7-6 (4)
 
Singles
Stian Klaassen (USD) def. Hugo Hashimoto (Columbia) 6-4, 6-0
Sachin Palta (Columbia) def. Adrien Berrut (USD) 6-2, 6-4
Iiro Vasa (USD) def. Nicolas Kotzen (Columbia) 7-6(7), 6-0
Neo Niedner (USD) def. Thanaphat Boosarawongse (Columbia) 7-5, 6-3
Andrew Kotzen (Columbia) def. Nikhil Niranjan (USD) 6-1, 6-4
Jung Hee You (Columbia) def. Blake Kasday (USD) 7-4, 6-3