MALIBU, Calif. - The University of Hawai`i men's tennis team will compete at the Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southwest Regional Tennis Championships, Oct. 15-20. The six-day individual tournament will be hosted by Pepperdine University at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu, Calif.

 

One of nine regional tournaments across the country, the Southwest Regionals consists of a singles and doubles main draw with consolation play. The singles tournament begins with a round of 128 players which features players from the University of Arizona, USC, UCLA, Pepperdine, San Diego State, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Riverside and Hawai'i. The doubles tournment begins with a round of 64 teams on Thursday.

 

There will be eight Rainbow Warriors representing Hawai'i in both singles and doubles play. UH senior Andreas Weber, juniors Dennis Lajola, Daniel Llarenas and Jeremy Tweedt, sophomores Leo Rosenberg, Chad Rubin and Philipp Eberhard, and lone freshman Dmytro Kovalyov.

 

Weber, Lajola, Kovalyov and Eberhard all received first round byes and will begin their singles play on Friday. Larenas, Tweedt and Rosenberg will begin play on the first day of competition Thursday. Llarenas will play Nils Schive from the University of San Diego, Tweedt will battle against Taylor Chavez from UC Santa Barbara and Rosenberg will play against Ryan Mayer from UC Irvine. All three matches start at 12:00 p.m.

 

In doubles, the teams of Lajola/Tweedt, Eberhard/Kovalyov, Llarenas/Rubin and Rosenberg/Weber will compete. Eberhard and Kovalyov will begin their doubles play on Thursday against Alex Konigsfeldt and Benjamin Recknagel of UCSB. The other three doubles teams all received first round byes and will begin on Friday.

 

The Rainbow Warriors have two players and one doubles team ranked in the ITA preseason rankings which came out on Sept. 4. Lajola is No. 49 and Weber is No. 119 in the singles rankings, while, the team of Lajola and Tweedt are ranked No. 49 in doubles.

 

 

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