SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The No. 72 Texas Tech Red Raiders opened their weekend in California with a win over the UNC Wilmington Seahawks on Friday afternoon by a come-from-behind, 4-3 score.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (9-4) started doubles with a win on court one as Niksa Arsic<\/a> and Sebastian Abboud<\/a> took down the UNCW (2-7) duo Brady Hussey and Alex de Gabriele, 6-2. Shortly after, both remaining Red Raider duos fell on courts two and three in tiebreaker sets to give the Seahawks a 1-0 lead headed into singles.<\/p>\n In singles play, the Red Raiders started out strong with back-to-back wins by Arsic and Felipe Pagnacco<\/a>. Arsic began singles with a win over Lukas Steffen with decisive sets, 6-3, 6-4, on court one. Pagnacco quickly followed on court four over Seahawk de Gabriele in two sets, 6-4, 6-2, to give the Red Raiders their first lead of the match.<\/p>\n Thiago Guglieri<\/a> took down UNCW Hussey, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, on court five to give the Red Raiders a 3-1 advantage. Tyler Stewart<\/a> fell to Oscar Baumgartner, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, on court three, and then Ludovico Vaccari<\/a> was defeated at court two by Jordi Domench, 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, to tie up the match. Clinching the match for the Red Raiders was Abboud who went into a third-set battle with Alexander Thompson, winning it, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2, to give the Red Raiders a 4-3 victory.<\/p>\n Up next, the Texas Tech Red Raiders battle the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at 2 p.m. CT on Saturday.<\/p>\n RESULTS
\u00a0
\u00a0 \u00a0
\n#72 Texas Tech 4, UNCW 3
\nSingles
\n
\n<\/p>\n
\n\tNiksa Arsic<\/a> def. Lukas Steffen, 6-3, 6-4
\n\tJordi Domench def. Ludovico Vaccari<\/a>, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
\n\tOscar Baumgartner def. Tyler Stewart<\/a>, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
\n\tFelipe Pagnacco<\/a> def. Alex de Gabriele, 6-4, 6-2
\n\tThiago Guglieri<\/a> def. Brady Hussey, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
\n\tSebastian Abboud<\/a> def. Alexander Thompson, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2
<\/p>\n
\nDoubles<\/p>\n
\n\tSebastian Abboud<\/a>\/Thiago Guglieri<\/a> def. Brady Hussey\/Alex de Gabriele, 6-2
\n\tWilliam Dean\/Jordi Domenech def. Niksa Arsic<\/a>\/Tyler Stewart<\/a>, 7-6
\n\tLukas Steffen\/Oscar Baumgartner def. Felipe Pagnacco<\/a>\/Thomas Van Den Dooren<\/a>, 7-6
<\/p>\n
\nOrder of finish: Doubles (1,3,2), Singles (1,4,3,5,2,6)<\/p>\n
\nTexas Tech Men’s Tennis
\n
\n<\/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":"SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The No. 72 Texas Tech Red Raiders opened their weekend in California with a win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-194979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194979","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=194979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}