Mitchell

Nicholas Mitchell Season 2018-19

Height5-8
ClassJunior
HometownOjai, Calif.
Exp.2L

2017-18 Season (As A Sophomore)
     Singles – Made 12 appearances, including a pair of starts in the No. 6 position during the dual-match season ... Posted a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Rice’s Jared Aiman in the San Diego Spring Classic ... Also squared off against California’s Ben Draper before the match was abandoned ... Went 1-2 at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships, highlighted by a 6-4, 6-1 triumph over Pepperdine’s Scotland Garapedian in the consolation bracket ... Also competed in the Arizona Wildcat Invitational and Aztec Invitational during the fall tournament schedule.
     Doubles – Combined for an 8-16 record as part of three tandems ... Went 7-11 alongside Sander Gjoels-Andersen, including a 3-9 mark in the spring at the No. 1 position ... Aztec duo posted a huge  6-2 upset of Harvard’s 40th-ranked Kenny Tao/Logan Weber in a non-conference battle at the San Diego Spring Classic ... SDSU pairing also emerged with a 6-3 triumph over Cal Poly’s Roman Shenkiryk/Andrew Whitehouse in the top spot after knocking off BYU’s Ben Gajardo/Sam Tullis by a 6-4 tally at No. 2 ... Earlier the fall, the same combo reached the Flight 1 finals at the Aztec Invitational after pinning a 6-1 defeat on Grand Canyon’s Lucas Grego/Valentin Lang, followed by 6-2 conquest of San Diego’s Alexandros Araouzos/August Holmgren ... Came up short in the championship final, however, as UCLA’s  Ben Goldberg/Austin Rapp escaped with a 7-5 decision ... Additionally, he and Gjoels-Andersen split two encounters in the main draw at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships, upending UC Irvine’s Bruce Man-Son-Hing/Luca Marquard by an 8-4 margin before falling in the round of 32 to UCLA’s Austin Rapp/Bryce Pereira by an identical score ... Joined forces with David Hough at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational, where they defeated Grand Canyon’s Valentin Lang/Gregoire Balenci in the tournament opener, 6-4 ... Teamed with Arnaud Restifo for his final three appearances of the spring vs. Eastern Washington, Boise State and Utah State.
 
2016-17 Season (As A Freshman)
     Singles – Finished with a 3-3 record in two tournaments during the fall slate ... Split four matches at the Aztec Invitational, notching a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Grand Canyon’s Mathieu Ounanian in the Flight 2 main draw to go with a 7-6, 6-2 triumph over UC San Diego’s Sreeganesh Manoharan in consolation play ... Won his opening encounter at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships, toppling UCLA’s Nishanth Yamani by a 6-1, 6-1 count before dropping a 6-2, 6-2 decision to Loyola Marymount’s Nicholas Borchenko in the round of 64.
     Doubles – Posted a 3-1 record with Sander Gjoels-Andersen at the No. 2 spot during the spring ... Aztecs were victorious all three duals with the duo winning ... SDSU tandem logged a 6-3 triumph over Isaac Perez/Luke Sanderson of Air Force, followed by another 6-3 conquest over Santa Clara’s Jesus Barajas/Robert Seby and a 7-6(2) decision over UNLV’s Ruben Alberts/Adam Gage-Brown in the regular-season finale ... Aztec pairing had both matches abandoned vs. New Mexico and Utah State in the Mountain West Championship ... Joined forces with Joel Popov for four matches, highlighted by an 8-5 victory over UC Irvine’s Vatsai Bajpai/Mason Hanson in the Flight 1 quarterfinals at the Aztec Invitational ... Same pairing later saw action at No. 3 in a dual match vs. Mississippi State ... Additionally played alongside Santiago Cevallos for four matches in the spring, featuring a 6-3 decision in the No. 2 spot over Arizona’s Trent Botha/Oliver Plaskett.

Personal
Majoring in interdisciplinary studies at San Diego State.