SAN DIEGO — San Diego men's tennis will send three Toreros to the ITA West Sectional Championships in Tempe, Ariz., and five to the SoCal Intercollegiates which will be hosted by the Toreros at the Hogan Tennis Center, with both events running Nov. 5-8.
Adrien Berrut, Manvydas Balciunas and Vincent Marysko will compete at West Sectionals hosted by ASU at the Whiteman Tennis Center. Lambert Ruland, Luc Wieland, Botond Nagy, Tiger Semler and Timothe Barthes will play in the SoCal Intercollegiates at the Hogan Tennis Center.
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ITA WEST SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: TEMPE, ARIZ.
Three Toreros will compete in the ITA Sectional Championships at the Whiteman Tennis Center in Tempe, Ariz., from Nov. 5-8.
Adrien Berrut: Berrut is coming off the Southwest Regional semifinal run. He also reached the singles quarterfinals at the Battle in the Bay on Oct. 2, beating Arizona 6-3, 6-4 and Michigan State 6-4, 6-3. At the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, he teamed with Ruland to win two doubles matches and reach the quarterfinals.
Manvydas Balciunas: Balciunas won his opening singles match at the All-American Championships 6-3, 6-1, then took a three-set loss to Clemson and responded with a 7-5, 6-0 win in the consolation bracket. He went on to the doubles semifinals with Marysko at the Southwest Regional.
Vincent Marysko: Marysko won both of his opening-round singles matches at the Southwest Regional in tiebreakers and reached the round of 16. He and Balciunas then reached the doubles semifinals.
SOCAL INTERCOLLEGIATES: HOGAN TENNIS CENTER
Five Toreros will compete in the SoCal Intercollegiates at the Hogan Tennis Center from Nov. 5-8.
Lambert Ruland: Ruland and Berrut reached the doubles quarterfinals at both the All-American Championships and the Southwest Regional, winning four matches in all.
Luc Wieland: Wieland and Berrut won in the doubles round of 16 at the Battle in the Bay, then lost 8-7 (7-4) in the quarterfinals. He later teamed with Nagy to reach the Southwest Regional doubles quarterfinals.
Botond Nagy: Nagy and Baena went 3-0 in doubles at the San Diego Veterans Tennis Classic (Oct. 2-4), winning by scores of 7-5, 7-5 and 6-4. He won a qualifying match at the Southwest Regional to reach the main draw and then reached the doubles quarterfinals with Wieland.
Tiger Semler: Semler will make his debut in fall play for the Toreros at home.
Timothe Barthes: Barthes played doubles with Baena at the Southwest Regional, falling in the round of 64.
LAST TIME OUT: BERRUT REACHES SINGLES SEMIFINALS AT ITA SOUTHWEST REGIONAL
Berrut won four straight singles matches at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships (Oct. 15-19 in Malibu) before falling in the semifinals. He beat Arizona in three sets, ASU 6-2, 6-2 and UCLA 6-2, 6-1, then outlasted another UCLA opponent 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 in the quarterfinals. Pepperdine ended the run 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Balciunas and Marysko won three doubles matches and reached the semifinals, beating Arizona 8-2 and ASU 8-4 before dropping a 3-6, 6-3, [10]-[7] decision to Pepperdine.
Berrut and Ruland and Nagy and Wieland both reached the doubles quarterfinals. Berrut and Ruland won 8-4 and 8-5 before falling 8-6 to SDSU, and Nagy and Wieland won 8-4 twice before losing 8-5 to Pepperdine.
Marysko won his first two singles matches in straight-set tiebreakers 7-6, 7-6 over Arizona and 7-6, 7-6 over Arizona to reach the round of 16, while Balciunas beat UCLA 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 in the round of 64. Nicolas Baena and Nagy both came through qualifying to reach the main draw.