LA JOLLA, Calif. – Four Stanford men's tennis tandems took the courts at the Pacific Coast Doubles Championship, with the duo of Arthur Fery and Alex Rotsaert winning four matches and earning a semifinal appearance to lead the way.
Fery and Rotsaert, ranked as the ITA's No. 7 duo, dispatched opponents from four schools to reach the semifinal, including teams from Nebraska and USC. The pair fell in three sets in the semifinals to end the event at 4-1 overall.
Max Basing and Aryan Chaudhary picked up a pair of wins to reach the quarterfinal, while the pairs of Tomas Kopczynski and Timothy Sah and Alex Lee and Dean Stratakos each went 1-1 with a round of 64 appearance.
The tournament marked Stanford's final tune-up before Pac-12 play begins on Friday, March 11 against Utah. The contest at Taube Family Tennis Center begins and 2 p.m. PT.
RESULTS
Arthur Fery & Alexandre Rotsaert (4-1)
R128 – bye
R64 – vs. Nathan Arimilli/Philip Martin (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps), W – 4-0, 4-1
R32 – vs. Eita Ishikawa/Jiaxi Ma (College of the Desert), W – 4-1, 5-3
R16 – vs. Dario Huber/Shunya Maruyama (Nebraska), W – 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
QF – vs. Peter Makk/Lodewijk Weststrate (USC), W – 6-1, 6-3
SF – vs. Drew Baird/Alexander Hoogmartens (UCLA), L – 3-6, 6-3, 4-6
Tomas Kopczynski & Timothy Sah (1-1)
R128 – vs. Andrew Carson/Matthew Pollock (unaffiliated), W – 4-1, 4-1
R64 – vs. Peter Makk/Lodewijk Weststrate (USC), L – 3-5, 4-2, 0-1 (7-9)
Max Basing & Aryan Chaudhary (2-1)
R128 – bye
R64 –vs. Sahm Irvine & Charles Qian (UC San Diego), W – 4-0, 4-1
R32 – vs. Christopher Bulus/Zach Garner (unaffiliated), W/O (inj.)
R16 – vs. Ryan Colby/Bradley Frye (USC), W – 6-7 (4), 7-6 (1), 6-4
QF – vs. Victor Moreno/Nic Wiedenhorn (Nebraska), L – 2-6, 3-6
Alex Lee & Dean Stratakos (1-1)
R128 – vs. Callaway Clark/Louis Cloud (SMU), W – 3-5, 4-2, 1-0 (7-5)
R64 – vs. Stefan Leustian/Bryce Pereira (UCLA), L – 2-4, 2-4