Men's Tennis Closes Fall With ITA Regional Tourney

TOPEKA, Kan. – Southeastern closed out the fall men's tennis schedule with a trip to the ITA Central Region Individual championships in Edmond, Okla.
 
The Savage Storm picked up eight singles victories and added three more in doubles play across multiple brackets.
 
In the singles main draw, Gonzalo Cotter and Alexis Viau each picked up wins to advance.
 
Cotter downed Harding's Christian Smith 6-3, 6-4, and followed with a win over Ilan Fuentes of Nebraska-Kearney to advance to the round of 16 where he would drop a tough matchup to the top seed.
 
Viau topped Tomas Aramburu from Northeastern State in the first round with a 7-5, 6-4 win, but dropped his round of 32 contest.
 
Benjamin Fracassi fell in the first round but picked up a win in the consolation bracket of the main draw, taking out Kivanc Bedir from Arkansas-Fort Smith, 7-6 (3), 7-5.
 
In the singles B bracket, Paolo Estrada opened with a 6-2, 6-0 win and added a 4-6, 6-2, 10-4 win over NSU's Ko Osuga before seeing his run come to an end in a three-set match in the semifinals.
 
Luca Di Cicco picked up a win as well, taking out Kyosuke Ishida from NSU 1-6, 6-4, retired.
 
Di Cicco and Jackson Follett teamed up in doubles play in the B bracket, but after a first round loss would fall to a pair of teammates in the consolation bracket.
 
That pair was Estrada and Fabian Padilla Munoz who picked up a win in the consolation finals by an 8-7 (4) score.
 
Cotter and Viau picked up a win in the first round of the main draw of doubles, downing Neumann and Minamino from Southern Arkansas 8-4, but fell to the four-seed in the second round.
 
Fracassi and Eric Poindexter picked up a consolation bracket win over Walkey and Smith from Harding, 8-6, but were tripped up in the quarter finals.
 
SE will next be in action after the new year when it travels to San Antonio, Texas to take on St. Mary's on Jan. 30.