{"id":665311,"date":"2026-05-12T22:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665311\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:03:10","slug":"13-mens-tennis-downs-34-grand-valley-4-1-cements-spot-in-national-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665311\/","title":{"rendered":"#13 Men’s Tennis Downs #34 Grand Valley 4-1, Cements Spot in National Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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\"NCAA<\/p>\n

Next Match:<\/p>\n

vs. NCAA DII Championship<\/p>\n

5\/19\/2026 | <\/p>\n


\n May. 19 (Tue) \n <\/p>\n

\"NCAA<\/p>\n


\n vs.\u00a0NCAA DII Championship \n <\/p>\n

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GREENWOOD, IN \u2013 In the Midwest Regional sub-finals, the No. 13 UIndy men’s tennis team defeated No. 34 Grand Valley 4-1. The winning effort cements their spot in the NCAA DII Men’s Tennis Championship in Surprise, Ariz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This will be their eleventh consecutive season advancing to the National Championship Tournament. Today’s comeback victory also makes it 12 straight wins for the Greyhounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

INS AND OUTS

\nThe Lakers were on the board first after taking doubles on courts #2 and #3. Denys Zamaraiev and Andreu Martin downed Lorenzo Di Cursi<\/a> and Jovan Matovic<\/a> 6-2 on court #3 to pencil the first result. Stephen Claassen and Lawrence Ivanov secured the opening point with a 6-3 win over Zaid Shelbaya<\/a> and Tadeo Gaggiofatto<\/a> on court #2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hounds quickly struck back in singles at court #1, where No. 22 Asier Ayllon Prado<\/a> breezed past Bora Bakici.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moments later, Gaggiofatto turned in a 6-1, 6-4 win over Zamaraiev on court #2 to give UIndy their first lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Derache found the next result for the Hounds, outpacing Axel Le Ho in a 7-5, 6-4 victory at #3 singles, giving UIndy a 3-1 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The match would come down to courts #4, #5, and #6, where Di Cursi, Matovic, and Vladislav Gorbatenko<\/a> all forced third sets after facing first-set deficits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Within the dreadlock, Matovic found himself down 4-5 in the third set, where Jorge Ruiz was on serve. With his back against the wall, Matovic extended the match to 5-5 after forcing a break in a point where he fell, got back up, and forced a key error from Ruiz. The freshman dished a gritty service hold to go up 6-5, giving him momentum to break Ruiz’s serve once again, winning the third set 7-5 to seal the victory for UIndy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UP NEXT

\nUIndy will make their return to the NCAA DII Championship in Surprise, Ariz. They await to see who they will face in their first match on Wednesday, May 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next Match: vs. NCAA DII Championship 5\/19\/2026 | May. 19 (Tue) vs.\u00a0NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-665311","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\/665311","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=665311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}