MG, ITA Southwest Regional Champ

Big congratulations to sophomore Marcos Giron for winning the ITA Southwest Regional Qualfying this past weekend at UCI. Marcos did not drop a set in route to his championship. Marcos was unable to compete in this tournament last year because of the wrist he injured in All-Americans the tournament before. Great to see him off to a good start this year! The finals features him and his teammate and former roommate and Dennis Mkrtchian. With this win Marcos earns a bid into the prestigious ITA national indoors tournament in Flushing Meadows, NY.

Go bruins!

USTA ITA Regionals, UCI

Some of the bruins are competing at the University of California, Irvine this weekend in the USTA ITA Regional Individuals Tournament.

Singles:

-Redshirt Freshman Karue Sell fell in the first round

-Sophomore Dennis Novikov fell in the first round in his first match back from rehabbing his ankle that he hurt in a futures tournament in Irvine.

-Redshirt Freshman Ryoto Tachi began his collegiate carrear this weekend with a win over Miles Seeman of UCSB before losing to 7th seed Jon Brooklyn of Hawaii.

-Senior Warren Hardie won his first round match before losing in the round of 32 to 3 seed Roberto Quiorz of SC

-Sophomore Dennis Mkrtchian is into the round of 16 after Jordan Kepler of Cal Poly today 6-2 7-5. Dennis is seeded 11 in the tournament

-Sophomore Marcos Giron is also in the round of 16 today after a win over Sasha Gryaznov of UCSB.

Doubles:

-Warren and Dirk came back for an amazing win today over Axel Bouillin and Sasha Gryaznov of UCSB 8-6

They will play the number one seed of Max De Vroome and Roberto Quiroz of SC tomorrow morning at 9:30 am

-Dennis Novikov and Marcos Giron are the second seed in the tournament and advanced today Fitzgerald and Kalaydijian of the University of San Diego

They will play the fifth seed of Hanfmann and Johnson of SC tomorrow at 9:30 am