Charlottesville, Va. – After two days of play at the ITA Atlantic Regional Championships, Penn State men's tennis has two singles players and a doubles pair still competing in the tournament.
Gabriel Nemeth and Christos Antonopoulos will both see action in the round of 32 on Saturday. The pair of Nemeth/Alp Sentay will also compete in the round of 16 in the doubles bracket.
SINGLES
In the round of 62, No. 16 seed Nemeth defeated George Lovitt of Richmond, 7-6 (3), 6-3. He will face ODU's Younes Lalami in the round of 32.
Andrei Paduraru got the victory against Luis Janko of St. Joe's, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3 in consolation.
Noah Sutter won his consolation match against Jean Armstrong of Mount St. Mary's, 6-1, 6-4.
Chikaya Sato lost his match in the round of 64 to Derrick Thompson of Navy, 6-3, 6-2.
Sentay lost to Jake Dabek of Navy, 6-2, 6-3, in the backdraw.
No. 11 seeded Antonopoulos defeated Dimosthenis Taramonlis of Radford, 6-1, 6-0. He will see Nathan Perrone of St. Joe's in the next round of play.
Chris Kuhnle got the win against Romani Mayers of Howard in consolation competition, 6-0, 7-6 (7).
DOUBLES
Freshmen duo Paduraru/Sato defeated Sturgill/Emerson of Liberty, 9-8 (3), in the first round before losing to the top-seeded pair of MusitelliGriesse of ODU, 8-4.
Sutter/Kuhnle were defeated by VCU's Zgraggen/Cronje, 8-4. The pair went on to defeat Toth/Kim of Villanova, 8-4, in consolation.
The No. 2 seeded duo of Nemeth/Sentay defeated Erwin/Evans of Richmond, 8-6. They then went on to get the win against Taramonlis/Silva of Radford, 8-4. The pair will face ODU's Vidal/Lalami in the round of 16.
"Our senior duo of Nemeth and Antonopoulos played extremely well in singles today and got past some quality opponents. They both have seeded players tomorrow and need to be at their best level if they want to continue in the tournament. Sentay and Nemeth also beat two quality teams in doubles today. We finished today with four doubles wins and that will help the young players confidence heading into the spring."
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