Men's Tennis Travels to Cleveland State for the Viking Invitational

Friday, October 29

Cleveland, Ohio

All Day

Xavier University

Cleveland State Viking Invite

Men's Tennis Travels to Cleveland State for the Viking Invitational

10.27.21 | Men's Tennis

Singles Draw Doubles Draw

Event runs from Oct 29-31 at Medical Mutual Tennis Pavilion

By: Hayley Schletker, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier men's tennis will travel to the Cleveland to take part in the Viking Invitational, running Oct. 29-31 at the Medical Mutual Tennis Pavilion, to close out Fall tournament action for the Musketeers. The Musketeers will compete against players from Buffalo, Butler, Dayton, Niagara and Youngstown State in addition to host CSU.

The Musketeers returned eight letter-winners from last season, including Brett Winters, who competed primarily in Xavier's No. 1 singles spot, as well as regular singles players Cambell Nakayama, Shashank Reddy and Aaron Thompson. Xavier also added five newcomers, including a three-person freshman class and a pair of transfers.

FALL RESULTS

Xavier was last in action at the Dayton Hidden Duals on October 1-2, picking up 19 combined while facing off with NKU, IUPUI and Dayton.
In singles play, Xavier picked up 14 wins, led by Marco Pennelli who picked up singles wins against all three teams, going 3-0 against Noah Viste (IUPUI), Brandon Ponomarew (NKU) and Eric Perkowski (Dayton).
Diego Nava picked up two wins in singles action, against NKU's Emilien Burnel and Connor Bruce of Dayton.
Pascal Mosberger went 2-0 in singles play with wins over Colton Morehart (IUPUI) and Erik Eliasson (Dayton).
Jake Zipoli topped Cannan Sellers (IUPUI) on day one and Matt DeMarco (Dayton).
Against NKU, Cambell Nakayama picked up a single win against Santiago Casamayor, 6-4, 6-1, while Ryan Cahill picked up a 6-2, 6-2 win over Tom Berry.
Shashank Reddy, Dominic Macaluso and Aaron Thompson picked up singles wins over Dayton Flyers Max DeCurtins , Oliver Dune and Georgi Mavrodiev, respectively.
In doubles actions, Xavier collected five wins, including a pair for Brett Winters who partnered with Cambell Nakayama to take a 6-3 in over the Flyers, and with Pascal Mosberger to win 6-2 against IUPUI.
Diego Nava and Ryan Cahill took a 6-3 win over Dayton. Jake Zipoli and Aaron Thompson combined to pick up a 6-3 win over NKU. Shashank Reddy and Marco Pennelli took a 6-0 win against IUPUI.
Against IUPUI, Xavier went 3-3 in singles action, and 2-1 in doubles play. Against NKU, Xavier went 4-2 in singles and 1-2 in doubles. Against the Flyers, Xavier went 7-4 in singles and 2-2 in doubles play.