AZUSA, Calif. - The UC San Diego men's tennis team fell on the road Friday to Azusa Pacific, 8-1, snapping the Tritons' three-match winning streak.
The Tritons drop to 4-3 overall while APU improves to 2-1 with the win. The Cougars are ranked No. 5 in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). UCSD will return to action in one week, hosting the NAIA's top-ranked team, Fresno Pacific, at 3 p.m. Friday.
Despite the Tritons leading early in the doubles matches to open up Friday's competition, APU ended up sweeping that portion. In the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles positions, Erik Elliott and Jake Fellow lost to the Cougars' Matthijs Bolsius and Jochem and Hoefnagels while Chapman Chan and Armaun Emami were defeated by APU's Janosch Apelt and Mathias Weber. Both matches ended in 8-6 scores.
The lone point attained by the Tritons Friday came from a 6-3, 6-3 singles victory at the No. 6 position by freshman Junya Yoshida over Ilja Ikonnikov. Yoshida, an Irvine native, holds a 4-0 record in his first season competing for UCSD.
Elliott suffered his first singles loss of 2010 at the No. 1 position, dropping a tough match to Bolsius. The contest featured a tiebreaker and ended at 7-5, 5-7 (10-4).
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| Singles competition |
| 1. BOLSIUS, Matthijs (APU) def. Erik Elliott (UCSD) 7-5, 5-7, 10-4 |
| 2. APELT, Janosch (APU) def. Chapman Chan (UCSD) 6-3, 6-2 |
| 3. LANE, Alex (APU) def. Jake Fellow (UCSD) 6-3, 6-0 |
| 4. WEBER, Mathias (APU) def. Vincent Nguyen (UCSD) 6-2, 2-6, 12-10 |
| 5. HOEFNAGELS, Jochem (APU) def. Naveen Dixit (UCSD) 6-2, 6-4 |
| 6. Junya Yoshida (UCSD) def. IKONNIKOV, Ilja (APU) 6-3, 6-3 |
| Match Notes |
| UC San Diego 4-3; National ranking #35 |
| Azusa Pacific 2-1 |
| Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (3,2,5,6,4,1) |
