The Arizona Wildcats’ run in the NCAA men’s tennis tournament came to an end in the Elite Eight Thursday when UA fell to top-seeded Wake Forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Arizona punched its ticket to the quarterfinals for the first time in program history after a string of home tournament wins over NAU 4-0, Clemson 4-2 and Oklahoma 4-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But on the road in Athens, Georgia, the Cats lost 4-1, closing out the season with a 24-5 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Arizona’s doubles duos of Filip Gustafsson and Glib Sekachov, and Jay Friend and Alexander Rozin fell 6-2 and 6-0, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rozin locked in the Cats’ only victory in singles, defeating Luca Pow 6-3, 7-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gustafsson fell to Wake Forest’s Mees Rottgering 6-2, 6-1,\u00a0Sekachov lost 6-4, 6-2 to\u00a0Aryan Shah,\u00a0while Arizona’s Alejandro Arcila lost in three sets to Joaquin Guilleme 0-6, 7-5, 6-3.<\/p>\n
Friend’s singles battle vs. DK Suresh Ekambaram went unfinished, 7-6 (7-3), 6-7 (2-7), 3-5.<\/p>\n
Wake Forest entered Thursday’s quarterfinal riding an eight-match winning streak after capturing the ACC Tournament title.<\/p>\n
Wake Forest,\u00a0which took home the 2025 NCAA title, moves on to face the winner of the Mississippi St.-Virginia matchup in the semifinals Saturday, while TCU and Texas also vie for a spot in the championship round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Wildcats’ run in the NCAA men’s tennis tournament came to an end in the Elite Eight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[246960,246961,49,48,6038,174720,58298,58299,136205,246959,246958,82,593,40583],"class_list":["post-670334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-atlantic-coast-conference-teams","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-clemson-university","tag-former-southern-conference-teams","tag-former-southern-intercollegiate-athletic-association-teams","tag-ncaa-division-i","tag-ncaa-division-i-basketball","tag-ncaa-division-i-conferences","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-university-of-arizona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670334","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=670334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}