SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. \u2014 Nearly a year to the day after Cal Poly\u2019s elimination from the 2025 Big West Championship at the hands of UC San Diego, the No. 72 Mustangs, slotted as the three-seed, will seek to reverse the outcome this season against the six-seed Tritons.<\/p>\n
The rematch is set for Thursday, April 23, at 1:00 p.m. at Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, Calif.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly arrives riding the momentum of one of the most thrilling home matches in recent memory. Under the lights on Senior Night, with a packed crowd roaring, the Mustangs upset No. 35 UC Santa Barbara to claim a share of the Big West regular season title. It marked the program\u2019s 17th overall championship and its first since 2022.<\/p>\n
The Gauchos came in riding a 22-match Big West regular season winning streak\u2014a run stretching back to their last non-postseason conference loss in 2023. Cal Poly didn\u2019t just snap that streak. They ended their rival\u2019s nine-match overall winning streak and secured their first Blue-Green rivalry victory since 2021.<\/p>\n
Fourth-year Mustang Aaron Eliscu delivered perhaps the finest performance of his collegiate career, upsetting No. 57 Dominique Rolland and halting Rolland\u2019s eight-match unbeaten run to level the overall score. For helping pave the path to victory and toppling a highly ranked opponent, Eliscu was named Big West Men\u2019s Tennis Player of the Week on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Now ranked again in the ITA polls after that statement win over UCSB, the No. 72 Mustangs (14-8, 5-1 Big West) enter the Big West Championship as the three-seed. Their first test: six-seed UC San Diego, which opened the tournament Wednesday with a clean 4-0 sweep of seven-seed UC Riverside.<\/p>\n
Rewind to April 4. Cal Poly had opened conference play with a third straight Big West victory, taking down UC San Diego 4-1 at the Ronca Tennis Center. Jovan Lubbe, playing at No. 1 singles, clinched the win in straight sets.<\/p>\n
If the Mustangs get past UCSD again, No. 2 seed UC Irvine will be waiting in the Big West Men\u2019s Tennis Championship Semifinals on Friday, April 24, at 1:00 p.m. The championship final is scheduled for Saturday, April 25, at 10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. \u2014 Nearly a year to the day after Cal Poly\u2019s elimination from the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-624999","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\/624999","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=624999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}