TEMPE, Ariz. - UC Irvine men's tennis picked up five wins on the first day of main draw singles and doubles at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships Friday at Kiwanis Tennis Center.
 
In doubles, Max Fardanesh and Andy Nguyen topped Cal Poly's Aaron Eliscu/Wian Roothman, 8-5. Sohrob Amiryavari and Lawee Sherif also outlasted Paolo Rosati/Jonathan Da Silva of Grand Canyon, 8-7 (7-4).
 
All four Anteater doubles teams will be in action in tomorrow's Round of 32 as No. 90 Noah Zamora/Hiroki Sakagawa and Ruining Huang/Rithvik Krishna had a Round of 64 bye.
 
No. 121 Noah Zamora, Hiroki Sakagawa and Andy Nguyen each recorded a straight-set singles win. Zamora took down Diego Dalisay of Hawai'i, 6-4, 6-2, while Sakagawa upended Arizona State's Mikel Anderson, 6-2, 6-3. Nguyen also dispatched GCU's David Wekesa, 6-1, 6-3.
 
Ruining Huang took UCLA's Giacomo Revelli down to the wire before falling in a third-set tiebreaker. Revelli was able to hold off a comeback from Huang as the Bruin held on for the 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (12-10) victory.
 
UCI continues main draw action tomorrow starting at 9 a.m.