ARLINGTON, Texas – Sophomore Filip Paroulek and freshman Seifeldeen Abdelkader each reached the singles quarterfinals of the ASUN Individual Tournament in Nashville, Tenn., while the rest of the UT Arlington men’s tennis team competed at the Waco Invite at Baylor University.

ASUN Individual Tournament (Nashville)

Paroulek won three matches to reach the quarterfinals. He opened with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Bellarmine’s Zak Vince, then beat No. 5 seed Satoru Nakajima of North Alabama 7-6 (5), 7-5. In the round of 16, he outlasted West Florida’s Vicente Couto 7-6 (4), 3-6, 12-10. In the quarterfinals, Abilene Christian’s Merse Deli earned a 6-1, 6-3, 11-9 win after Paroulek took the first set.

Abdelkader also advanced twice. He moved on when North Alabama’s Ethan Dasset retired, then beat Bellarmine’s Zachary Tabaczynski 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 in the round of 16. No. 3 seed Dennis Dutine of Abilene Christian earned a 6-2, 6-2 win in the quarterfinals.

Junior Filip Avdeev, the No. 7 seed, beat Lipscomb’s Juwan Bae 6-1, 7-6 (7) in the round of 32. West Florida’s Goncalo Quintela then earned a 6-1, 6-4, 10-6 win in the round of 16, with Avdeev winning the first set. Junior Finbar McGarvey pushed North Florida’s Daniel Marincas to a first-set tiebreak in the opening round before Marincas earned a 7-6 (5), 6-1 win. Marincas went on to reach the quarterfinals.

In doubles, McGarvey and Paroulek beat Eastern Kentucky’s Chad Valdes and Cole Wilber 7-6 (0) in the round of 32. They then upset No. 3 seeds Aron Janos Major and Daniel Marincas of North Florida 6-4 in the round of 16 to reach the quarterfinals. Lipscomb’s Juwan Bae and Henrique Ushizima earned a 6-3 win in the quarterfinals. Avdeev and Abdelkader fell to North Alabama’s Nakajima and Rytis Razminas 6-3 in the round of 16.

Baylor Invite

Senior Leon Grassnickel, sophomore Novak Ivanovic and junior Christopher Bennett Wirahadipoernomo each won a singles match Saturday.

Friday’s singles went to Abilene Christian’s David Kirchner, who beat Grassnickel 6-2, 6-2, and Baylor’s Calvin Baierl, who beat Ivanovic 6-1, 6-1. Abilene Christian’s Jonas Keck earned a 7-6 (3), 6-3 win over Wirahadipoernomo after a first-set tiebreak. In doubles, Baylor’s Louis Bowden and Radek Chodora beat Ivanovic and Kirchner 8-2, and Baylor’s Drew Hedgecoe and Baierl beat Wirahadipoernomo and Grassnickel 8-5.

Saturday, Ivanovic beat Keck 7-6 (3), 7-5. Wirahadipoernomo beat Abilene Christian’s Griffin Lovern 6-4, 6-0. Grassnickel rallied past UTSA’s Victor Alvares De Castro Rocha 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-1. In doubles, Abilene Christian’s Jorge Aza Casaseca and Alejandro Verdasco beat Ivanovic and Kirchner 8-3, and Keck and Lovern beat Wirahadipoernomo and Grassnickel by the same score.

On Sunday, Wirahadipoernomo and Grassnickel finished doubles with an 8-3 win over Ivanovic and Kirchner. In singles, Baylor’s Chodora beat Grassnickel 6-2, 6-2, and SMU’s Noah McDonald beat Ivanovic 7-6 (2), 6-1. UTSA’s Joel Hansson earned a 7-6 (8), 6-2, 6-4 win over Wirahadipoernomo, who took the first set.

NEXT UP

UTA wraps up the fall individual season at the SMU Invite in Dallas, Oct. 30–Nov. 1. Updated information will be available on the men’s tennis schedule page at UTAMavs.com.

 

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