Oregon senior Sven Swinnen found success in the first round of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Indoor Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich., by defeating Mark Van Elden of Oklahoma State, 2-6, 7-6, 5-3 (ret) Thursday.
With the victory over 13th-ranked Van Elden, Swinnen has improved his fall season record to 7-2.
“Sven did another outstanding job of battling back,” Oregon assistant coach Ross Duncan said. “He wore down Van Elden after the first set and came away with a huge win.”
In the round of 16, the 12th ranked Swinnen will face No. 59 Arnaud Lecloerec of Virginia Commonwealth today.
Last week, Swinnen became the first
Oregon men’s player to win a regional event, when he won the Wilson/ITA West Regional in Berkeley, Calif.
On the women’s side, eighth-ranked Daria Panova fell in the first round of the tournament to USC’s Nicole Leimbach, 6-4, 6-2.
Panova drops to the consolation round today and will face TCU’s Helena Besovic. Besovic was defeated by No. 1 seed Audra Cohen of Northwestern.
It is Panova’s second-consecutive loss after being bounced from the regional tournament in the third round by Stanford’s Whitney Deason.

[email protected]