SAN DIEGO – San Diego State men’s tennis sent four Aztecs to the University of San Diego’s Hogan Tennis Center for the USTA SoCal Intercollegiate Championships, and two to Rome, Ga. for the ITA Conference Masters on Thursday. William Kleege and Aleksi Lofman came up short in the doubles round of 32 in Rome, but three Aztecs advanced at USD.
Dinko Dinev is moving on in both singles and doubles at the SoCal Intercollegiates after claiming two victories on Thursday. Playing alongside Blake Anderson, the Aztecs defeated Saint Mary’s Joseph Lyon and Sam Simmonds 7-5 to advance to the quarterfinals. In singles competition, Dinev took down Rui Ning Huang out of UC Irvine by a score of 6-1, 6-2.
Brock Anderson also tallied two wins on the opening day. In singles play, Anderson bested Washington’s Sebastian Gampert 7-5, 6-4 and USC’s eighth-seeded Pablo Robledo Hoyos 6-4, 7-5.
Maxime Baur competed at the Hogan Tennis Center as well, but came up short 6-4, 6-4 to UC San Diego’s Andrew Beceiro.
At the ITA Conference Masters, Kleege and Lofman faced South Carolina State’s Andrii Borodatiuk and Iliyas Maratuly, but fell 6-3, 6-4.
The USTA SoCal Intercollegiate Championships will continue on Friday, beginning at 8 a.m. PT.