FORT WORTH, Texas -- Agustin Salazar and
Marcel Miralles both earned a pair of singles wins for the University of the Incarnate Word men's tennis team, as the Cardinals took part in a talent-filled ITA Men's Texas Regional Championships over the weekend.
Salazar and Miralles both went 2-2 with wins in their opening two matches at the event, which was hosted by TCU.
Salazar dropped just four games in his two wins, beating Lamar's Vincente Monge 6-2, 6-0 and Texas' Jeremiah Braswell 6-1, 6-1.
Miralles got a straight-set, 6-2, 6-1 victory over Nicolas Rivera Paz of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, then gutted out a 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 victory over Abilene Christian's Jorge Aza Casaseca.
Three other UIW players earned singles wins.
Santiago Flyckt topped Novak Ivanovic of UT-Arlington 7-5, 1-6, 7-6,
Alexandre Chauvel beat Lamar's Maxwell Lindstedt 6-2, 6-1 and
Ian Uraga defeated Mikel Garendia of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 7-5, 4-6, 7-6.
In doubles, Chauvel and
Carlos Mendoza defeated David Kirchner and Griffin Lovern of Abilene Christian 8-6, while the team of Uraga and
Gerardo Delgado beat Ivanovic and Christopher Bennett Wirahadipoernomo of UT-Arlington, also by the final of 8-6.
UIW is right back at it next weekend, traveling to Houston for the Rice Invitational on Oct. 16-18.
To view the full results of the ITA Men's Texas Regional Championships,
click here.
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