IRVINE, Calif. --- No. 75 UC Irvine put up a brilliant singles effort to thwart a Phoenix upset Saturday morning in Anteater Tennis Stadium winning 4-3.
Green Bay (10-6) took the doubles point in a sweep at Nos. 1 and 3 for the early 1-0 lead.
UC Irvine (14-9, 1-0) rallied back to take a 2-1 lead from sweeps by Nico Mertens and Jonathan Poon.
UWGB rose from the ashes to retake the lead at 3-2 with a pair of sweeps from Florian Kraenzler and No. 124 Michael Tenzer.
Tyler Pham turned back Leopold Gomez Islinger at No. 2 singles for a three-set victory to tie the match at 3-3.
Jonathan Hammel provided the dagger at No. 5 returning from an opening-set deficit to nail down the fourth and final point for the 'Eaters.
UC Irvine's afternoon is just getting started as it hosts Eastern Washington at 2:30 p.m. once again in Anteater Tennis Stadium.
No. 75 UC IRVINE 4, GREEN BAY 3
UCI (14-9, 1-0) | UWGB (10-6)
March 21, 2015
Anteater Tennis Stadium
Doubles
1 Kraenzler/Tenzer (UWGB) def. Agbayani/Poon (UCI) – 6-1
2 Hammel/Hernandez (UCI) vs. Leto/Scott (UWGB) – 4-5 (unf.)
3 Gomez Islinger/Teban (UWGB) def. Pham/Shibahara (UCI) – 6-4
Green Bay wins the doubles point
Singles
1 No. 124 Michael Tenzer (UWGB) def. Sebastian Heim (UCI) – 6-1, 7-5
2 Tyler Pham (UCI) def. Leopold Gomez Islinger (UWGB) – 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
3 Nico Mertens (UCI) def. Howard Scott (UWGB) – 6-2, 6-1
4 Florian Kraenzler (UWGB) def. Shuhei Shibahara (UCI) – 6-1, 6-4
5 Jonathan Hammel (UCI) def. Joshua Schramm (UWGB) – 2-6, 7-5, 6-3
6 Jonathan Poon (UCI) def. Joey Leto (UWGB) – 6-1, 7-5
Order of finish: Doubles – 1, 3 | Singles – 3, 6, 4, 1, 2, 5
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