{"id":242665,"date":"2025-10-26T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242665\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:01:10","slug":"mamalat-and-samardzic-capture-big-south-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242665\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamalat and Samardzic Capture Big South Doubles Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ROCK Hill, S.C. \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0Presbyterian&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/david-mamalat\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">David Mamalat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matija-samardzic\/7883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7883\" target=\"_blank\">Matija Samardzic<\/a> captured the Big South Doubles Championship at the Big South Individual Championship at the Rock Hill Tennis Center in Rock Hill, S.C. on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>With the doubles title, the Blue Hose doubles tandem earned the league&#8217;s automatic bid to the ITA Conference Masters Championships, being played in San Diego, California, November 6-9.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mamalat_and_Samardzic3.jpg\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"2000\"\/>\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDOUBLES CHAMPIONS&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn Sunday&#8217;s championship match, Mamalat and Samardzic defeated Longwood&#8217;s Timeo Puech and Daniel Borisov, 8-5, to win the title.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn Saturday&#8217;s semifinals, Mamalat and Samardzic defeated Gardner-Webb&#8217;s Kaua Lopes Cressoni and Boyd Schreiber, 8-6, to advance to the finals.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn Friday&#8217;s quarterfinals, they beat UNC Asheville&#8217;s Griffin Lovern and Cian Ingles, 8-6.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nUp Next<br \/>\nPresbyterian travels to Spartanburg, S.C., to play in the Wofford College Clash next weekend, October 31-November 2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSingles (October 24-25)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/david-mamalat\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">David Mamalat<\/a> (PC) defeated Alejandro Uribe (Longwood), 6-3, 6-2 \u2013 Main Draw<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/david-mamalat\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">David Mamalat<\/a> (PC) lost to Will Pellegrini (Bryant) 6-3, 6-3 \u2013 Main Draw<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matija-samardzic\/7883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7883\" target=\"_blank\">Matija Samardzic<\/a> (PC) lost to Will Pellegrini (Bryant) 6-4, 6-3 \u2013 Main Draw<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/daksh-prasad\/7877\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7877\" target=\"_blank\">Daksh Prasad<\/a> (PC) lost to Timeo Puech (Longwood) 6-4, 6-4 \u2013 Main Draw<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matija-samardzic\/7883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7883\" target=\"_blank\">Matija Samardzic<\/a> (PC) lost to Alejandro Uribe (Longwood) 6-3, 6-4 \u2013 Consolation Draw<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/daksh-prasad\/7877\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7877\" target=\"_blank\">Daksh Prasad<\/a> (PC) lost to Daniel Borisov (Longwood) 6-3, 7-5 \u2013 Consolation Draw<\/p>\n<p>Doubles (October 24-26)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/david-mamalat\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">David Mamalat<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matija-samardzic\/7883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7883\" target=\"_blank\">Matija Samardzic<\/a> (PC) def. Griffin Lovern\/Cian Ingles (AVL) 8-6 \u2013 Main Draw<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/david-mamalat\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">David Mamalat<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matija-samardzic\/7883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7883\" target=\"_blank\">Matija Samardzic<\/a> (PC) def. Kaua Lopes Cressoni\/Boyd Schreiber (GWU) 8-6 \u2013 Main Draw Semifinals<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/david-mamalat\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">David Mamalat<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matija-samardzic\/7883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7883\" target=\"_blank\">Matija Samardzic<\/a> (PC) def. Timeo Puech\/Daniel Borisov (Longwood) 8-5- Championship match<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/daksh-prasad\/7877\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7877\" target=\"_blank\">Daksh Prasad<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/victor-mayer\/7881\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7881\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Mayer<\/a> (PC) lost to Timeo Puech\/Daniel Borisov (Longwood) 8-4 \u2013 Main Draw<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/daksh-prasad\/7877\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7877\" target=\"_blank\">Daksh Prasad<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gobluehose.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/victor-mayer\/7881\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7881\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Mayer<\/a> (PC) lost to Dan Baquero\/Miguel Angel Machado (Bryant) 8-3 \u2013 Consolation Draw<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; ROCK Hill, S.C. \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0Presbyterian&#8217;s David Mamalat and Matija Samardzic captured the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-242665","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\/242665","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=242665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}