TULSA – Rice’s doubles team of Petro Kuzmenok and Santiago Navarro capped a perfect weekend with a win in the American Doubles Championship final on Sunday.
The top-seeded duo defeated Charlotte’s No. 2-seeded pair of Vasco Prata and Ivan Dreycopp 7-6 (4), 6-7 (9), 10-5 to secure their spot in the ITA Conference Masters Championships, where they will represent the American.
Both sets were tightly contested, with each decided in a tiebreak. The Owls took the first set 7-6 (4) before falling 6-7 (9) in the second. In the decisive 10-point tiebreak, Kuzmenok and Navarro pulled away to clinch the victory and finish the weekend 3-0.
The duo will compete at the ITA Conference Masters Championships on Nov. 6-9 in San Diego.
RESULTS
Quarterfinals | Petro Kuzmenok/Santiago Navarro (Rice) def. Oskar Grzegorzewski/Enzo Vargas (UTSA) 7-1
Semifinals | Petro Kuzmenok/Santiago Navarro (Rice) def. Juan Pabo Valdez/Ondrej Valek (UAB) 6-4, 6-1
Finals | | Petro Kuzmenok/Santiago Navarro (Rice) def. Vasco Prata/Ivan Dreycopp (Charlotte) 7-6 (4), 6-7 (9), 10-5