HONOLULU – The No. 37 University of Hawai'i men's tennis team concluded the Rainbow Warrior Challenge against a dominating No. 3 Tennessee squad  Tuesday morning at the UH Tennis Complex.

 

The Volunteers—NCAA finalists last season and featuring two players ranked in the top 25—were as advertised, winning all nine singles matches with eight wins in straight sets. Leading Tennessee was the current top-ranked player in the country in Rhyne Williams and John-Patrick Smith, the preseason top-ranked player.

 

Senior Dennis Lajola did compete admirably against Williams before falling 6-4, 6-4. Smith had an easier time with junior Leo Rosenberg in a 6-1, 6-2 win on the No. 2 court. Meanwhile, senior Jeremy Tweedt, who transferred from Tennessee after his sophomore season, got to face his former team, falling to Tennys Sandgren 6-3, 6-3 on the No. 3 court.

 

Senior Daniel Llarenas was the lone Rainbow Warrior to extend his match to a third set. Llarenas took the first set from  Taylor Patrick 6-2, before dropping the next two sets by identical scores.

 

Tennessee was the third ranked team UH faced in less than a week. UH, ranked No. 37 in the country, played No. 13 Louisville in the Rainbow Warrior Challenge on Friday and fell to No. 14 Duke on Saturday in a dual match

 

Next up for the Rainbow Warriors is the USTA Wild Card Tournament, Jan. 14-16, at the Central O'ahu Regional Park in Waipi'o.

 

 

No. 1 Rhyne Williams (UT) def. Dennis Lajola (UH) 6-4, 6-4

No. 21 John-Patrick Smith (UT) def. Leo Rosenberg (UH) 6-1, 6-2

Tennys Sandgren (UT) def. Jeremy Tweedt (UH) 6-3, 6-3

Boris Conkic (UT) def. Jonathan Brooklyn (UH) 6-2, 6-2

No. 38 Matteo Fago (UT) def. Jared Spiker (UH) 6-1. 6-3

Jarryd Chaplin (UT) def. Dmytro Kovalyov (UH) 6-3, 6-4

Taylor Patrick (UT) def. Danile Llarenas (UH) 2-6, 6-2, 6-2

Bryan Swartz (UT) def. David Schuster (UH) 6-2, 6-1

Edward Jones (UT) def. Chris Meyer (UH) 6-0, 6-0

 

Singles
Jonathan Brooklyn, Hawai'i

Austen Childs, Louisville

Simon Childs, Louisville

Boris Conkic, Tennessee

Tennys Sandgren, Tennessee

John-Patrick Smith, Tennessee

Rhyne Williams, Tennessee

MVP: Rhyne Williams-Tennessee