Jan. 14, 2017 Complete Results
THE RUNDOWN
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Baylor men's tennis players went 6-2 in singles action on the first day of the Sherwood Collegiate Cup Friday at the Sherwood Country Club.
The schedule of play was changed due to delays caused by inclement weather. Instead of two singles matches and one doubles round being played, each player had one singles match and then two rounds of doubles action were held.
In the opening round of the 32-man singles draw, 44th-ranked Max Tchoutakian took out Stanford's David Wilczynski, 6-1, 6-3. Meanwhile, freshman Bjoern Petersen recorded a 6-4, 7-6(0) upset of UCLA's 87-ranked Maxime Cressy.
Constantin Frantzen (7-5, 6-3), Juan Benitez (6-3, 6-3) and Johannes Schretter (6-0, 6-0) all won in straight sets over Jake DeVine (USC), Robbie Bellamy (USC) and Nikita Demir (Stanford), respectively.
The only three-set match of the day for BU was a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 triumph for Will Little over USC's Henry Ji. Two Bears lost their opening round singles match. First, 81st-ranked Jimmy Bendeck fell short 6-4, 6-4 against Evan Zhu of UCLA, while Tyler Stayer dropped a 6-2, 6-1 decision to Logan Staggs of UCLA.
In doubles action, the BU tandem of Little and Schretter recorded the upset of the day with a 6-4 win over top-seeded and 15th-ranked Yale Goldberg and Sammer Kumar of Stanford. However, the two Bears than went on to lose in the quarterfinal round, 7-5, to UCLA's Ben Goldberg and Logan Staggs.
Two of Baylor's doubles pairings advanced to the tournaments semifinal round. First, Benitez and Tchoutakian took care of USC's David Laser and Laurens Verboven, 6-2, in the opening round. Next, Benitez and Tchoutakian power past Brandon Sutter and David Wilczynski of Stanford, 6-3, to be one of only four doubles team left undefeated.
One of those other remaining three undefeated duos is Frantzen and Petersen, who got an opening round bye, before slipping past USC's Jack Jaede and Thibault Forget, 7-6(4).
Baylor's final doubles team of Bendeck and Stayer suffered a 6-3 setback to USC's Robbie Bellamy and Jake DeVine in the opening round.
WHAT'S NEXT
Singles consolation play starts at 10 a.m. CT with main draw singles action beginning at 12 p.m. CT on Saturday.
For more information on the Baylor men's tennis team all season long, follow the team's official Twitter and Instagram account: @BaylorMTennis.
