{"id":158572,"date":"2025-09-21T05:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:29:12","slug":"blue-demons-complete-wmu-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158572\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Demons Complete WMU Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2013 DePaul men&#8217;s tennis wrapped up their stay at the WMU\/Vredevelt Invite Saturday evening, tallying a total of 10 singles victories and five wins in doubles.<\/p>\n<p>In the second round of doubles play, the Blue Demons excelled. Freshman duo <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/augusto-pardo-cano\/4343\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4343\" target=\"_blank\">Augusto Pardo Cano<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/bernardo-vialle\/4148\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4148\" target=\"_blank\">Bernardo Vialle<\/a> toppled Ronin Kasday and Nicholas Balthazor of Butler, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>DePaul then doubled down against Marquette as Austrian native <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/tobias-leitner\/4117\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4117\" target=\"_blank\">Tobias Leitner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/sebastian-medica\/4147\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4147\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Medica<\/a> beat Evan Glebov and Ivan Vazquez, and <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/thomas-giles\/4115\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4115\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Giles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/sven-moser\/4146\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4146\" target=\"_blank\">Sven Moser<\/a> defeated Kristian Blagoev and Luke Coppage, 6-2 and 6-3 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Medica and Leitner finished the job in the third round of doubles, beating Marquette&#8217;s Blagoev and Coppage in a battle, 7-6. The duo finished with a 2-1 record in doubles competition at Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n<p>Leitner carried his impressive performance into the final round of singles competition against Butler&#8217;s Arnesh Singh, as he quickly took set one, 6-2. In a back and forth set two battle, Leitner ultimately bested Singh 7-5, securing the matchup win.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the final round of singles, Giles met his match taking on Butler&#8217;s Siddhartha Lama and battling through a tough set one, 7-6(4). Giles then shut the door on Lama in set two, taking it 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Closing out with dominance, Moser knocked off Vazquez of Marquette in a straight sets victory, winning 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Demons capped the event as Vialle recorded a default win over Coppage.<\/p>\n<p>WMU\/Vredevelt Invitational<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSeptember 20, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSorensen Courts<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKalamazoo, Mich.<\/p>\n<p>Day Two Results<\/p>\n<p>Doubles<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0Medica\/Leitner (DPU) def. Glebov\/Vazquez (MARQ) 6-2<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGiles\/Moser (DPU) def. Blagoev\/Coppage (MARQ) 6-3<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVialle\/Cano (DPU) def. Balthazor\/Kasday (BU) 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Kasday\/Lama (BU) def. Hadziabdic\/Anwar (DPU) 7-6 (4)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMedica\/Leitner (DPU) def. Blagoev\/Coppage (MARQ) 7-6 (4)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGlebov\/Vazquez (MARQ) def. Giles\/Moser (DPU) 6-2<\/p>\n<p>Singles<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHo (WMU) def. Medica (DPU) 6-3, 6-4<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBaldi (BU) def. Cano (DPU) 6-3, 6-2<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWilliam (BU) def. Anwar (DPU) 6-2, 6-1<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLeitner (DPU) def. Singh (BU) 6-2, 7-5<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGiles (DPU) def. Lama (BU) 7-6(4), 7-5<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMoser (DPU) def. Vazquez (MARQ) 6-1, 6-1<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVialle (DPU) def. Coppage (MARQ) Default, no match<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>TULSA, Okla. \u2013 Day one of the ITA All-Americans Tournament kicked off Saturday, Sept. 20. Blue Demon <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/alejandro-gandini\/4149\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4149\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Gandini<\/a> is set to compete in Tulsa, participating in singles competition.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate transfer Gandini took on Florida&#8217;s Andreas Timini in the first round of the singles tournament where he dropped the first set, 3-6. After battling in set two, Gandini ultimately fell in a tight, second set tiebreaker 7-6(3).<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe ITA All-Americans continue as sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/depaulbluedemons.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/thomas-giles\/4115\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4115\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Giles<\/a> teams up with Gandini for doubles play. Competition picks up Sunday, Sept. 21 and continues through Thursday, Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE BLUE DEMONS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor all of the latest on DePaul Cross Country, Track &amp; Field, stay tuned to DePaulBlueDemons.com and follow the team on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DePaulXCTF?mibextid=LQQJ4d&amp;rdid=1u9LeWXjJBmFU75D&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2FevZKuaxc8k6xhjoE%2F%3Fmibextid%3DLQQJ4d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/depaulxctf\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DePaulXCTF\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2013 DePaul men&#8217;s tennis wrapped up their stay at the WMU\/Vredevelt Invite Saturday evening, tallying a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-158572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}