'Eaters Set for ITA Southwest Regional Championships

Thursday, October 20

Malibu, Calif.

9:00 AM

UC Irvine

ITA Southwest Regional

Photo by: Derrick Tuskan/Big West

'Eaters Set for ITA Southwest Regional Championships

October 19, 2022 | Men's Tennis

Tournament Central

IRVINE, Calif. - The UC Irvine men's tennis team is headed to Malibu for the 2022 ITA Southwest Regional Championships, Oct. 20-24.

The tournament, which will feature 16 ranked singles players, brings the region's top competition together at Raphs-Straus Tennis Center. The singles and doubles champions, along with the singles runner-up, will qualify for the ITA Fall National Championships in San Diego, Nov. 2-6.

All eight Anteaters are set to compete in both singles and doubles. Leading the way for UCI is sophomore Noah Zamora, who owns a 5-1 singles record through two fall tournaments. He went 2-1 at the ITA All-American Championships (Oct. 1-2) where he advanced to the prequalifying singles Round of 64. Zamora then went 3-0 at the San Diego Veterans Tennis Classic (Oct. 7-9).

Graduate transfer Enrique Luque Rico, junior Brandon Park and senior Matthew Sah were also in action two weeks ago in San Diego, while senior Ali Amiri went 1-1 at the ITA All-American Championships. Junior Thomas Smart, sophomore Lawee Sherif and sophomore Rithvik Krishna will make their season debuts this weekend.

Last year at the ITA Southwest Regional, Sah and Smart advanced to the doubles Round of 16. Smart and Zamora also won their first-round singles matches, while Sah made it to the consolation Round of 32.