No. 43 Oregon came within a single point of clinching the match against No. 53 Pepperdine (3-0) on Saturday, but the Waves came back and won four singles matches in a row to take down the Ducks 4-3.
Oregon’s Cormac Clissold and Daan Maasland, in their first doubles match of the season together in the No. 2 position, defeated Pepperdine’s Stefan Menichella and Tom Hill, 6-3.
Pepperdine brought the day to a 1-1 tie on court one, following a win by Guilherme Hadlich and Rakshay Thakkar over Oregon’s Kevin Farin and Jayson Amos, 6-3. The Ducks locked up the doubles point when the No. 3 duo of Simon Stevens and Daniel Sardu defeated Lautaro Pane and Pedro Iamachkine, 6-4.
The Ducks started ahead singles, after Stevens beat the Waves’ Hill 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, and Sardu managed at 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win. Pepperdine went on to win the next four matches and ultimately the day.
Oregon will compete again in two days at UC Santa Barbara on Monday, March 2 at 1 p.m.
Final Results:
Doubles:
1. Hadlich/Thakkar (PEP) def. Farin/Amos (ORE) 6-3
2. Clissold/Maasland (ORE) def. Menichella/Hill (PEP) 6-3
3. Stevens/Sardu (ORE) def. Pane/Iamachkine (PEP 6-4
Order of Finish: 2, 1, 3
Singles:
1. Stefan Menichella (PEP) def. Daan Maasland (ORE) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
2. Guilherma Hadlich (PEP) def. Kevin Farin (ORE) 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3
3. Daniel Sardu (ORE) def. Rakshay Thakkar (PEP) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
4. Simon Stevens (ORE) def. Tom Hill (PEP) 7-6 (8-6), 6-1
5. Pedro Iamachkine (PEP) def. Jayson Amos (ORE) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5
6. Luca Marquard (PEP) def. Cormac Clissold (ORE) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
Order of Finish: 4, 3, 1, 6, 5, 2