LAS VEGAS, Nev. — It’s a Mountain West title match rematch from 2025, but in the quarterfinals for 2026. New Mexico, which defeated Boise State in a 4-0 sweep in Las Vegas in the Mountain West title match last year, takes on those very same Broncos on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Mountain, 5 p.m. Pacific.<\/p>\n
The winner of the match will take on the winner of the 2\/7 matchup between San Diego State and Air Force. Boise State enters the match ranked No. 62 in the latest ITA rankings, 20-8 overall, and 4-3 in the league. The Lobos are 8-15 overall and 2-5 in the league.<\/p>\n
The two teams squared off in a match that had a little bit of everything, from a doubles point controversy to the Lobos knocking off a former teammate in a 4-3 Bronco win.<\/p>\n
The Broncos won the match when Stewart Aronson defeated Philip Bosin<\/a> 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the final match, but UNM showed plenty in the 4-3 loss.<\/p>\n Tyler Waddock<\/a> beat Taiyo Kurata 7-6 (13-11), 6-3, and Connor Dils<\/a> won 6-2, 6-4 over Idriss Haddouch. The biggest win for UNM was Dario Ciobotaru<\/a> winning at No. 1 singles 6-4, 6-4 over his former teammate Avery Tallakson<\/a>, who declined to shake hands after the match, drawing a chorus of boos from the large Lobo contingent in attendance.<\/p>\n It was Tallakson who won the clinching match against Boise State in the 4-0 Mountain West Championship match a year ago, adding some intrigue to the proceedings. The Broncos, in a match a few weeks ago, didn’t start Carson Baker in singles, and he brings a 20-11 record as seven Broncos have between 22 and 20 wins on the year.<\/p>\n The Lobos have been paced by Bosin, who leads the team with 15 wins, and Ciobotaru, who is second with 14. Where UNM has excelled is in doubles, with No. 1 team Alberto Perez<\/a> and Jakub Prachar<\/a> going 10-5 in the spring. UNM also got Jan Skerbatis<\/a> back in its last match, but had Tyler Waddock<\/a> out due to an injury. If the Lobos can have both back, it would make the closest UNM has had to a regular singles lineup without an injury since the second week of the season in early February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS, Nev. — It’s a Mountain West title match rematch from 2025, but in the quarterfinals for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-619733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619733","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=619733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}