{"id":127826,"date":"2026-01-18T06:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127826\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:41:27","slug":"red-raiders-soar-into-first-win-of-the-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127826\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders soar into first win of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech opened the spring season with a 5\u20132 victory over the Southern Miss Golden Eagles on Friday afternoon at the McLeod Tennis Center.
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\nIn doubles, the duo of Niksa Arsic<\/a> and Thiago Guglieri<\/a> posted their first ranked win of the spring season in a quick and decisive match over No. 46 Saheb Sodhi and Eric Perkowski, 6-1, at the top court. Clinching the doubles point was the duo of Ludovico Vaccari<\/a> and Thomas Van Den Dooren<\/a> after they took down Jose Murariu and Matei Varbanciu, 6-3, at court three. Over on court two, Sebastian Abboud<\/a> and Tyler Stewart<\/a> were tied with Kale Mize and Jay Temming, 4-4, when it went unfinished.
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\nIn singles, Texas Tech struck first on court six after Guglieri defeated Ritabrata Sarkar with a perfect second set, 6-3, 6-0, to take the Red Raiders to 2-0. Abboud followed this up with another straight-set victory for Tech, 6-4, 6-4, over Temming on court five.
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\nSouthern Miss would earn a point at court two to cut into the Red Raider lead, but Felipe Pagnacco<\/a> rallied for a three-set win at court three over Olle Noltorp, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, to clinch the match at 4-1. Van Den Dooren closed out singles play for the Red Raiders with his first dual singles win of his career with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) defeat of Perkowski on court four.
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\nUp next, the Red Raiders head to Colorado to compete against the Denver Pioneers on Jan. 23 at 1 p.m. CT.
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\nRESULTS
\nSingles
\n1. Kale Mize (USM) def. Niksa Arsic<\/a> (TTU) 6-3, 6-7 (1-7), 1-0 (13-11)
\n2. Jose Murariu (USM) def. Tyler Stewart<\/a> (TTU) 7-6 (7-3), 6-3
\n3. Felipe Pagnacco<\/a> (TTU) def. Olle Noltorp (USM) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
\n4. Thomas Van Den Dooren<\/a> (TTU) def. Eric Perkowski (USM) 6-3, 7-6 (7-3)
\n5. Sebastian Abboud<\/a> (TTU) def. Jay Temming (USM) 6-4, 6-4
\n6. Thiago Guglieri<\/a> (TTU) def. Ritabrata Sarkar (USM) 6-3, 6-0
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\nDoubles
\n1. Niksa Arsic<\/a>\/Thiago Guglieri<\/a> (TTU) def. #46 Eric Perkowski\/Saheb Sodhi (USM) 6-1
\n2. Sebastian Abboud<\/a>\/Tyler Stewart<\/a> (TTU) vs. Kale Mize\/Jay Temming (USM) 4-4, unfinished
\n3. Ludovico Vaccari<\/a>\/Thomas Van Den Dooren<\/a> (TTU) def. Jose Murariu\/Matei Varbanciu (USM) 6-3
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\nOrder of finish: Doubles (1,3); Singles (6,5,2,3,4,1)
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\nTexas Tech Men’s Tennis<\/p>\n


\n\t19 NCAA Tournament Appearances
\n\t10 NCAA Singles Championship Participants
\n\t13 NCAA Doubles Championship Participants
\n\tSeven All-Americans
\n\t2016 Big 12 Champions
\n\t53 Academic All-Big 12 Selections
\n\tCareer-high ITA End of Year Team Ranking of No. 11
\n\tEight Top-25 ITA End of Year Team Rankings <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech opened the spring season with a 5\u20132 victory over the Southern Miss Golden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-127826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}