STANFORD, Calif. – Opening the dual slate with a victory, No. 16 Stanford topped No. 22 Pepperdine on Friday afternoon at Taube Family Tennis Center. The Cardinal is 1-0, while the Waves drop to 0-1.
Stanford picked up the doubles point with wins on courts one and two. Axel Geller and Tomas Kopczynski tallied a 6-3 win on court two, while the No. 8 duo of Arthur Fery and Alexandre Rotsaert won in tiebreaking fashion on court one, 7-6 (4).
The Cardinal took a 3-0 lead after quick singles results from Max Basing on court four, 6-1, 6-1, and Aryan Chaudhary on court six, 6-3, 6-4. The win was Chaudhary's team-leading 13th of the season. Pepperdine responded on courts five and three to cut the advantage to 3-2.
The seventh-ranked Fery closed out his opponent in a top-10 battle on court one, winning a tiebreaker in the second set, 6-2, 7-6 (4). Fery is 11-2 on the season.
The Cardinal returns to action Jan. 29 against Tulane in the ITA Kickoff Weekend in Orlando.
No. 16 Stanford 5, No. 22 Pepperdine 2
DOUBLES
1) No. 8 Fery/Rotsaert (STAN) d. De Jonge/Vasa (PEPP), 7-6 (4)
2) Geller/Kopczynski (STAN) d. Summaria/Zeitvogel (PEPP), 6-3
3) Fellin/Rogers (PEPP) d. No. 31 Basing/Sah (STAN), 6-4
Order of Finish: 2, 3, 1
SINGLES
1) No. 7 Arthur Fery (STAN) d. No. 8 Daniel de Jonge (PEPP), 6-2, 7-6 (4)
2) Alexandre Rotsaert (STAN) d. No. 24 Pietro Fellin (PEPP), 6-3, 6-7 (3), 1-0 (8)
3) No. 15 Andrew Rogers (PEPP) d. Axel Geller (STAN), 7-6 (3), 6-3
4) Max Basing (STAN) d. No. 72 Tim Zeitvogel (PEPP), 6-1, 6-1
5) Eero Vasa (PEPP) d. Timothy Sah (STAN), 6-1, 7-6 (6)
6) Aryan Chaudhary (STAN) d. No 99 Eric Hadigan (PEPP), 6-3, 6-4
Order of Finish: 4, 6, 5, 3, 1, 2