The opening day of the NCAA Doubles Championship saw seeds succeed with third set supertiebreaks the exception and not the norm.
Seven of the men’s top 8 seeds won with the only seeding upset occurring when Notre Dame’s Tristan McCormick and Axel Nefve defeated [5-8] seed Kentucky’s Cesar Bourgois and Gabriel Diallo 7-5, 7-5. There were only 3 men’s doubles matches out of 16 that went to a third set. The SEC has 4 teams left in the draw, the ACC and Big 12 have 3, and the AAC has 2. The conferences with just 1 team left are the Big Ten, Pac-12, Sun Belt, and WCC.
The women’s doubles draw saw 6 of the top 8 seeds advance with the biggest upset occurring when Oklahoma’s Carmen and Ivana Corley knocked out the No. 3 seed Georgia Tech’s Victoria Flores and Kenya Jones 7-6(3), 6-3. The women’s matches were a little more competitive than the men’s matches with 6 of 16 matches going the distance. 9 of the 16 teams left are from the ACC with North Carolina, Virginia, and NC State having two teams each while Wake Forest, Florida State, and Duke have 1. The SEC has 3 teams left, the Big 12 has 2, the Pac-12 has 1, and the Southern Conference has 1.
NCAA Men’s Doubles – Round 1:
[1] Tim Sandkaulen/Finn Reynolds, Ole Miss def. Henri Squire/Eduardo Nava, Wake Forest 6-3, 7-5
Siim Troost/Vlad Lobak, Minnesota def. Victor Chaw/Jim Hendrix, Samford 6-1, 6-3
[5-8] Trent Bryde/Tyler Zink, Georgia def. Sumit Sarkar/Conrad Russell, Rice 6-3, 2-6, 10-4
Guy Den Ouden/AdrianOetzbach, Pepperdine def. Sam Riffice/Duarte Vale, Florida 6-3, 6-3
[4] Alastair Gray/Luc Fomba, TCU def. Florian Broska/Gregor Ramskogler, Mississippi State 6-4, 6-3
Riley Smith/Daniel Cukierman, Southern California def. Juan Carlos Aguilar/Bjorn Thomson, Texas A&M 6-3, 6-0
Tristan McCormick/Axel Nefve, Notre Dame def. [5-8] Cesar Bourgois/Gabriel Diallo, Kentucky 7-5, 7-5
Finn Murgett/Tad Maclean, Auburn def. Jordan Chrysostom/RyanFishback, Virginia Tech 6-2, 6-4
Loïc Cloes/Clément Marzol, South Alabama def. Johannes Ingildsen/Will Grant, Florida 6-1, 6-2
[5-8] Trey Hilderbrand/Bogdan Pavel, UCF def. Patrick Kaukovalta/Riccardo Roberto, Alabama 2-6, 7-6(4), 10-8
Marcus McDaniel/Andres Martin, Georgia Tech def. Daniel Rodrigues/Connor Thomson, South Carolina 6-3, 6-3
[3] Adam Walton/Pat Harper, Tennessee, def. Sean Sculley/Garrett Johns, Duke 6-0, 6-4
Emile Hudd/Matej Vocel, Oklahoma St. def. David Stevenson/Oscar Cutting, Memphis 6-4, 6-4
[5-8] Sven Lah/Constantin Frantzen, Baylor def. Hamish Stewart/Ewan Moore, Tulane 6-1, 7-6(4)
Rithvik Bollipalli/Jacob Wojcik, South Fla. def. Siem Woldeab/Eliot Spizzirri, Texas 4-6, 6-3, 10-8
[2] William Blumberg/Brian Cernoch, North Carolina def. Will Davies/Oliver Okonkwo, Iowa 7-6(7), 6-2
NCAA Men’s Doubles – Round of 16 Schedule:
[1] Tim Sandkaulen/Finn Reynolds, Ole Miss vs. Siim Troost/Vlad Lobak, Minnesota (6:00 pm)
[5-8] Trent Bryde/Tyler Zink, Georgia vs. Guy Den Ouden/AdrianOetzbach, Pepperdine (6:00 pm)
[4] Alastair Gray/Luc Fomba, TCU vs. Riley Smith/Daniel Cukierman, Southern California (6:00 pm)
Tristan McCormick/Axel Nefve, Notre Dame vs. Finn Murgett/Tad Maclean, Auburn (6:00 pm)
[5-8] Trey Hilderbrand/Bogdan Pavel, UCF (6:00 pm) vs. Loïc Cloes/Clément Marzol, South Alabama
[3] Adam Walton/Pat Harper, Tennessee, vs. Marcus McDaniel/Andres Martin, Georgia Tech (6:00 pm)
[5-8] Sven Lah/Constantin Frantzen, Baylor vs. Emile Hudd/Matej Vocel, Oklahoma St. (7:00 pm)
[2] William Blumberg/Brian Cernoch, North Carolina vs. Rithvik Bollipalli/Jacob Wojcik, South Fla. (7:00 pm)
NCAA Women’s Doubles – Round 1
[1] Akvilė Paražinskaitė/Fiona Arrese, Kentucky def. Brooke Killingsworth/Anna Brylin, Wake Forest 5-7, 6-3, 10-4
Elysia Bolton/Jada Hart, UCLA def. Isabella Pfennig/Estela Perez-Somarriba, Miami (FL) 6-3, 6-3
[5-8] Chloe Beck/Karolina Berankova, Duke def. Mia Horvit/Megan Davies, South Carolina 6-4, 4-6, 10-8
Alana Smith/Anna Rogers, NC State def. Michaela Gordon/Niluka Madurawe, Stanford 7-5, 6-1
[4] Makenna Jones/Elizabeth Scotty, North Carolina def. Ava Hrastar/Gia Cohen, Georgia Tech 3-6, 6-3, 14-12*
Katarina Kozarov/Julia Adams, Furman def. Ally Bojczuk/Julia Lilien, Notre Dame 7-6(6), 6-3
[5-8] Marlee Zein/McCartney Kessler, Florida def. Raven Neely/Tatiana Simova, Louisville 6-1, 6-3
Sofia Munera/Natasha Subhash, Virginia def. Martina Okalova/Vera Ploner, Tulsa 6-3, 4-6, 12-10*
Jayci Goldsmith/Tatiana Makarova, Texas A&M def. Maya Tahan/Diana Khodan, Miami (FL) 6-1, 6-4
[5-8] Jaeda Daniel/Adriana Reami, NC State def. Jessica Failla/Shiori Fukuda, Pepperdine 7-6(2), 7-6(4)
Rosie Johanson/Emma Navarro, Virginia def. Haley Giavara/Valentina Ivanov, California 4-6, 7-6(2), 10-7*
Carmen Corley/Ivana Corley, Oklahoma def. [3] Victoria Flores/Kenya Jones, Georgia Tech 7-6(3), 6-3
Carolyn Campana/Eliza Omirou, Wake Forest def. Margaryta Bilokin/Meible Chi, Duke 6-1, 1-6, 10-4
Andrea Garcia/Nandini Das, Florida St. def. [5-8] Ariana Arsenault/Katarina Jokic, Georgia 6-4, 6-4
Kylie Collins/Lulu Sun, Texas def. Cameron Corse/Page Freeman, Notre Dame 6-3, 6-2
[2] Sara Daavettila/Cameron Morra, North Carolina def. Kolie Allen/Isabelle Boulais, Ohio St. 7-5, 6-1
- Doubles Notes
- UNC’s Makenna Jones and Elizabeth Scotty fought off match points at 9-8*, *10-9, 11-10*, and *12-11
- UVA’s Munera/Subhash fought off a match point at 9-8*
- Cal’s’s Giavara/Ivanov served for the match up 6-4, 5-4
NCAA Women’s Doubles – Round of 16 Schedule:
[1] Akvilė Paražinskaitė/Fiona Arrese, Kentucky vs. Elysia Bolton/Jada Hart, UCLA (6:00 pm)
[5-8] Chloe Beck/Karolina Berankova, Duke vs. Alana Smith/Anna Rogers, NC State (6:00 pm)
[4] Makenna Jones/Elizabeth Scotty, North Carolina vs. Katarina Kozarov/Julia Adams, Furman (6:00 pm)
[5-8] Marlee Zein/McCartney Kessler, Florida vs. Sofia Munera/Natasha Subhash, Virginia (6:00 pm)
[5-8] Jaeda Daniel/Adriana Reami, NC State vs. Jayci Goldsmith/Tatiana Makarova, Texas A&M (6:00 pm)
Rosie Johanson/Emma Navarro, Virginia vs. Carmen Corley/Ivana Corley, Oklahoma (6:00 pm)
Carolyn Campana/Eliza Omirou, Wake Forest vs. Andrea Garcia/Nandini Das, Florida St. (7:00 pm)
[2] Sara Daavettila/Cameron Morra, North Carolina vs. Kylie Collins/Lulu Sun, Texas (7:00 pm)
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