{"id":551720,"date":"2026-03-20T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:01:11","slug":"lions-roar-past-warriors-improve-to-11-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551720\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Roar Past Warriors, Improve to 11-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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LOS ANGELES\u00a0\u2014\u00a0LMU men’s\u00a0tennis rallied from an early deficit to defeat Hawaii 4-2 Thursday at the LMU Tennis Center, improving the Lions to 11-1 on the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Lions dropped the opening doubles match in No. 3\u00a0doubles, where Cyrus Ahmad<\/a> and Darius Tamaddon<\/a>\u00a0fell to Adriano\u00a0Dzhenev\u00a0and Kent Mueller, 6-1.\u00a0The Lions\u00a0responded quickly, however, as Cesar Cruz<\/a> and Emil Kindhult<\/a>\u00a0evened things out in\u00a0No. 2 Doubles with a 6-4 victory over Toa Maeda and Azuma Visaya.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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With the doubles point on the line, Alex Padro\u00a0Parra\u00a0and Max Wuelfing<\/a> delivered in No. 1 Doubles. After back-to-back double faults in the tiebreaker, Padro collected himself and put away a beautiful crosscourt winner to go ahead 6-4 in the breaker, and the pair closed out the set 7-6 (7-4) over Timothy Li and Kosuke Nakanishi to give LMU the doubles point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The momentum swung Hawaii’s way to open singles play. In No. 3 Singles, Nakanishi dispatched\u00a0Kindhult\u00a06-4, 6-4, while Azuma Visaya rolled past Wuelfing 6-4, 6-3 in No. 1 Singles to push the Warriors ahead, 2-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Padro\u00a0Parra\u00a0steadied the Lions in No. 4 Singles, rallying past\u00a0Dzhenev\u00a0after dropping the opening set. After falling 6-3 in the first, Padro stormed back to take the second 6-2 and the third 6-1 to knot the match at two apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Kuba\u00a0Hrynkiewicz\u00a0kept the momentum going in No. 5 Singles, edging Kent Mueller in three sets.\u00a0Hrynkiewicz\u00a0took a tightly contested first-set tiebreak 7-6 (7-3) before closing out the match 6-3 in the second to put LMU on the doorstep at 3-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Cruz clinched the victory in No. 2 Singles, delivering a gutsy performance against Li. After stealing a tense first-set tiebreak 7-6 (8-6), Cruz closed out the match 6-4 in the second to seal the 4-2 final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The match on court six between Tristan Messerli<\/a> and Hawaii’s Hikaru Takahashi was left unfinished with the outcome already decided.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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LMU returns to action\u00a0on Tuesday, March 24 against Dartmouth with the match scheduled to kick off at noon (PT).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next Match: Dartmouth 3\/24\/2026 | 12:00 PM Mar. 24 (Tue) \/ 12:00 PM …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-551720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551720","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=551720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}