{"id":192515,"date":"2025-10-06T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192515\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:40:08","slug":"mens-tennis-enjoys-strong-final-day-at-river-city-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192515\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Enjoys Strong Final Day at River City Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colleges.wearecollegetennis.com\/Competitions\/ITA\/Tournaments\/draws\/A8F0B5D5-60FF-49C1-88B8-B18D3AAC02B5\/35DDE638-E4A4-4033-BFD6-A3DA450845B5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DRAWS<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRICHMOND, Va. \u2013 The Bucknell men&#8217;s tennis team saved its best for last at Richmond&#8217;s River City Open, going 5-1 in completed singles matches and 3-0 in doubles on the final day of the round-robin tournament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNo. 43 <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/amar-tahirovic\/10480\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10480\" target=\"_blank\">Amar Tahirovic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/adam-stavrakas\/10479\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10479\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Stavrakas<\/a> both won singles matches for the third straight day. Tahirovic defeated James Madison&#8217;s Esteve Agusti 6-4, 6-1, and Tahirovic clipped Navy&#8217;s Nathan Nguyen 7-6, 6-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/brendan-mcdonald\/10477\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10477\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan McDonald<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shiv-singh\/10483\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10483\" target=\"_blank\">Shiv Singh<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nelson-alapi\/10481\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10481\" target=\"_blank\">Nelson Alapi<\/a> also won their matches on Sunday. McDonald capped off a 2-1 weekend with a 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over Dylan Chou of William &amp; Mary. The sophomore duo of Singh and Alapi both defeated opponents from Navy in straight sets, and they also teamed up to beat the Midshipmen&#8217;s Kai Edwards and Zack Giertz 6-0 in doubles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTahirovic and McDonald beat JMU&#8217;s Agusti and Guv LIbal 6-2, and Stravrakas paired with <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/oscar-bain-moreno-de-vega\/10474\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10474\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Bain Moreno de Vega<\/a> for a 6-1 win over Navy&#8217;s Zachary Quattro and Ethan Garcia.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNext up are the ITA Regional Championships Oct. 16-19 at Princeton.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRAWS \u00a0 RICHMOND, Va. \u2013 The Bucknell men&#8217;s tennis team saved its best for last at Richmond&#8217;s River&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-192515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}