Complete Singles and Doubles Results for Oliver Maiberger and Ryan Redondo in PDF Format
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May 23, 2002
SAN DIEGO - San Diego State enjoyed a perfect day at the NCAA Men's Tennis Singles and Doubles Championship on Thursday, with Oliver Maiberger advancing to the round of 16 in the singles bracket and Maiberger and Ryan Redondo advancing to the round of 16 in doubles.
Maiberger and Redondo, third-ranked and third-seeded in the championship, posted a 6-4, 6-4 victory over 18th-ranked Matias Boeker and Bo Hodge of Georgia in the first round of the 32-team tournament. On a day when three of the top eight doubles teams were defeated, Maiberger and Redondo used an early break in the first set to take control of their match.
The duo, which earned All-America honors on Tuesday, is 27-8 this season. They have won seven consecutive matches and have seven victories over doubles teams currently ranked in the top 10 nationally, including two wins over UCLA's Marcin Matkowski and Jean-Julien Rojer, the top-ranked doubles team in the nation.
The Aztec pair, which won the Omni Hotels Indoor Championship in November, will face 42nd-ranked Matthias Mathaes and Prakash Venkataraman of Rice in Friday's second round.
Earlier in the day, Maiberger won the final three games of the third set to complete a 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 victory over 22nd-ranked Matowski of UCLA in the second round of the 64-player NCAA Singles Championship.
With the victory, the junior reaches the round of 16 for the second consecutive year and earns the third All-America honor of his career. He earned All-American honors last season in singles.
Matkowski broke a five all tie by claiming the final two games to take the first set. Maiberger, ranked 26th nationally, bounced back by winning the first three games of the second set en route to the 6-4 win. The players alternated winning games in the third set, until Matkowski took a 5-4 lead. Maiberger responded by winning the next three games to claim the match.
A native of Lorsch, Germany, Maiberger is 28-8 on the season after winning for the 11th time in his last 13 matches. The match marked the fifth time this season he has rallied from a one-set deficit to win a match and the victory over Matowski marked the highest ranked singles player the junior has defeated this season.
Maiberger will face sixth-seeded and fifth-ranked Andy Leber of Texas-Arlington in the round of 16 on Friday.