{"id":643907,"date":"2026-05-15T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643907\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:17:11","slug":"arizona-wildcats-mens-tennis-falls-to-wake-forest-in-ncaa-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643907\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Wildcats men\u2019s tennis falls to Wake Forest in NCAA Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona men\u2019s tennis came up short in NCAA Quarterfinals action on Thursday, falling to top seed Wake Forest 4-1 in Athens, Ga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The No. 8 Wildcats were in their first-ever appearance at the eight-team NCAA Men\u2019s Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wake Forest jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead by winning the doubles point with victories on the top two courts. The Demon Deacons extended their lead with a win on singles court No. 2, where Wake Forest\u2019s Mees Rottgering topped Arizona\u2019s Filip Gustafsson in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wake Forest\u2019s lead grew to 3-0 with a straight set victory on court No. 5, as Glib Sekachov fell to Aryan Shah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona\u2019s lone point of the match came on court No. 3, where Alexander Rozin swept Wake Forest\u2019s Luca Pow 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wake Forest clinched the match on court No. 6, with Alejandro Arcila falling to the Demon Deacons\u2019 Jo Guillme in three sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona\u2019s All-American senior Jay Friend led on court No. 1 by a score of 7-6, 6-7, 5-3 at the conclusion of the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona finishes the season with a 25-4 record. The Wildcats won the Big 12 regular season championship and advanced past the Sweet 16 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Clancy Shields\u2019 progarm should return a majority of players, with Friend being the only graduating senior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona men\u2019s tennis came up short in NCAA Quarterfinals action on Thursday, falling to top seed Wake Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[114935,99,428],"class_list":["post-643907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-arizona-wildcats-the-other-sports","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}