The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
10.25.2020 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns won a pair of doubles brackets and senior Payton Holden reached the final of his singles flight before play concluded.
Waco, Texas – The Texas Men's Tennis team closed play at the ITA Texas Regional Championships in Waco on Sunday. The Longhorns won a pair of doubles brackets, and senior Payton Holden reached the final of his singles flight before play concluded.
The day started with doubles where Holden paired with sophomore Siem Woldeab to win the North bracket of the Red Draw with an 8-5 win over Kacper Dworak and Ivailo Keremedchiev of Louisiana. It was an all-UT final in the East bracket of the Blue Draw where the top-seeded pair freshman Micah Braswell and sophomore Jacob Bullard downed 2 seed freshman Leighton Allen and junior Nevin Arimilli, 8-3.
In singles, the second-seeded Holden won two matches in the Flight 2 East quarterfinals and semifinals over Daichi Akiyoshi of UT-Arlington and 8 seed Kacper Dworak of Louisiana, respectively, to reach the final where he was due to face 1 seed Reed Collier of Texas Tech before play stopped. Sophomore Eshan Talluri also played in Flight 2, but fell in a superbreaker to Karlo Kahin of Louisiana.
In Flight 1, Bullard won one match in the North Quarterfinals over Ivailo Keremedchiev of Louisiana. Meanwhile, fifth-seeded Woldeab fell to 2 seed Matias Soto of Baylor in the East quarterfinals, and seventh-seeded Braswell dropped his match to Luc Fomba of TCU in the East semifinals.
The Longhorns return to the courts in two weeks to close fall play at the Big 6 Fall Invitational in Fort Worth from Nov. 6-8.
ITA Texas Regional Championships
Texas Results
Flight 1 Singles
East Quarterfinals
2 seed Matias Soto (BU) def. 5 seed Siem Woldeab (UT), 6-3, 6-3
East Semifinals
Luc Fomba (TCU) def. 7 seed Micah Braswell (UT), 6-4, 6-3
North Quarterfinals
Ilgiz Valiev (TT) def. Nevin Arimilli (UT), 6-4, 6-0
Jacob Bullard (UT) def. Ivailo Keremedchiev (UL), 6-1, 6-3
South Quarterfinals
Angel Diaz Jalil (UTA) def. Leighton Allen (UT), 6-3, 6-2
Flight 2 Singles
East Quarterfinals
2 seed Payton Holden (UT) def. Daichi Akiyoshi (UTA), 7-5, 6-2
East Semifinals
2 seed Payton Holden (UT) def. 8 seed Kacper Dworak (UL), 6-2, 6-4
North Quarterfinals
Karlo Kahin (UL) def. Eshan Talluri (UT), 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (2)
Red Draw Doubles
North Final
Payton Holden/Siem Woldeab (UT) def. Kacper Dworak/Ivailo Keremedchiev (UL), 8-5
Blue Draw Doubles
East Final
1 seed Micah Braswell/Jacob Bullard (UT) def. 2 seed Leighton Allen/Nevin Arimilli (UT), 8-3
