FORT WORTH, Texas\u00a0\u2013 Freshman Seifeldeen Abdelkader put together a standout opening day for the UT Arlington men’s tennis team Thursday, winning both of his matches at the ITA Men’s Texas Regional Championship at Texas Christian University.<\/p>\n
Playing as the No. 14 seed in his first collegiate regional, Abdelkader opened the 10:30 a.m. session with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Lamar’s Stefano Chappuis. He controlled the match from the first game and closed it out in straight sets.<\/p>\n
In the second round, Abdelkader met UT Rio Grande Valley’s Loic Young at 1:30 p.m. and won 6-1, 7-5. He took the first set with ease, then held his composure in a tighter second to advance to the round of 16.<\/p>\n
Senior Leon Grassnickel<\/a> also advanced, rallying from a 4-6 first-set loss to beat UTRGV’s Eoghan Samyn, 6-2, 6-1. Grassnickel ended his run in the Round of 32 with a 1-6, 3-6 loss to Demitri Goubin of UTSA.\u00a0<\/p>\n Novak Ivanovic<\/a> pushed Incarnate Word’s Santiago Flyckt to a deciding set before falling 5-7, 6-1, 6-7 (3-7). Bautista Durrel Rojas<\/a> and Christopher Bennett Wirahadipoernomo<\/a> each dropped their matches.<\/p>\n NEXT UP — #BuckEm–<\/p>\n FOLLOW ALONG
Day 2 of the ITA Men’s Texas Regional begins Friday morning. After the ITA Texas Regional, the Mavs are back in action at the Rice Invite on Oct. 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For updates, behind-the-scenes photos, videos and more, follow the men’s tennis program on X (@utamavsmtennis), Instagram (@utamavsmtennis) and Facebook (\/utamavsmtennis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas\u00a0\u2013 Freshman Seifeldeen Abdelkader put together a standout opening day for the UT Arlington men’s tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-460635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460635","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=460635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}