Box Score HONOLULU--The University of Hawai'i men's tennis team (0-5) dropped a tough loss to Nevada (2-0), 4-3 on Thursday afternoon at the UH Tennis Complex. In the loss, reigning Big West Player of the Week Azuma Visaya won his third-stright singles match and senior Quinn Snyder made his 2025 debut winning both his singles and doubles match.

The Rainbow Warriors captured the doubles point to take an early 1-0 lead. UH's No. 3 duo of Andy Hernandez and Snyder led things off with a 6-2 win over Nevada's Paul Theate and Maxime Contet. Hawai'i's No. 2 pair of Karl Collins and Diego Dalisay clinched the point with a 6-3 win over Youssef Kadiri and Remy Tregoures. On the No. 1 court, UH's Visaya and Tianhao Hou were leading UNr's Lucas Hammond and Rayen Hermassi, 5-5 when the 'Bows secured the point.

Nevada, however would come out on fire to start singles, recording straight-set wins on Courts #2, 6, and 5 to take a 3-1 lead. 

Snyder started to shift the momentum to the Hawai'i side by winning his match at No. 4 over Remy Tregoures, 7-5. 6-3. 77th-ranked Visaya then followed by holding off No. 121 Youssef Kadiri in a tie-breaker in the first set, then shutting out his opponent in the second for a convincing, 7-6 (5), 6-0 victory to knot the score at 3-3.

The match hinged on the No. 3 court between UH's Dalisay and Nevada's Paul Theate. Thead took the first set, but Dalisay rallied to take the second frame. In the third set, Dalisay jumped out to a 3-0 lead, but Theate erased his deficit, winning the final three games in a row to clinch the win for the Wolf Pack, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

The Rainbow Warriors have a quick turnaround as they head over the Pali to take on Hawai'i Pacific in a dual match at the Kailua Racquet Club on Friday, Jan. 17 at 5:00 p.m. HT. For UH head coach Hendrik Bode, it will be his first match going up against the Sharks where he has spent the last 17 years as a player and head coach