Indian Wells, California – Rallying During the third match of the UTR Sports Collegiate 2025 championships, the waves of Pepperdine n ° 28 shot No. 26 Princeton 4-2 at Wells Tennis Garden on Sunday afternoon.
The waves (10-6) saw its first year classy class like veterans to upset the tigers (16-6). After abandoning the duplicate point, Pepperdine responded with single victories to Edward Winter,, Power Puertner And David Fix Before Aleksa Pisaric won the match with his three sets victory in fifth position.
In doubles, Pepperdine took a good start with the full beat 6-1 of Pisaric and Poertner of Landon Ardila and Aleksandar Mitric in court three. The waves took a broken double advance before the Tigers climbed on the board, then the waves finally broke the princeton duo for the 6-1 victory in a quick match of 22 minutes. Unfortunately for Pepperdine, the Tigers retaliated with a 6-3 victory in court two before their team from Filippos Astreinidis and Paul Inchauspe n ° 62 Hugh winter in an equality break on the first courtyard.
But the waves were not discouraged before the play in simple. Resolved not to leave the empty Indian wells, four waves won their first sets – and two were eruptions.
On the first courtyard, n ° 69 Edward Winter took an early advance of broken double against n ° 33 Paul Inchauspe on the upper line. Winter, which went 2-0 in the Indian Wells, looked at the part against Inchauspe and flambé by its first 6-1 set before taking another big lead to start the second set. Serving 4-1, the winter match reached a premature end when Inchauspe retired due to an injury.
With the waves of the board of directors, Princeton responded with a direct victory in court two. However, the example of the tiger was short -lived thanks to the efforts of Power Puertner in the fourth position.
Continuing his dominant game sequence in Indian Wells, Poertner set up a first set 6-0 bagel against Ellis Short. In the second set, Short broke Poertner in the third match for a 2-1 advance, but Poertner broke in the fourth game to put the match in service. From there, Poertner crossed the rest of the match, winning four consecutive games before breaking for the match in his 6-0 victory, 6-2.
Although the score was tied at 2-2 for more than an hour, the waves fought with two other victories in three sets at the bottom of the range.
Playing side by side in the third set, first -year students David Fix And Aleksa Pisaric answered the call. After losing a second set near Aleksandar Mitric on short six, Fix left nothing to chance taking a double advance in the third set. Although Mitric broke and consolidated the break to make the 4-2 score, fix, the recruit of Pepperdine held the service before breaking Mitric for the match in his victory 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
This victory put Princeton on the strings.
A few moments later on Court Five, Pisaric crowned an exciting third set, which presented several victories of Deucce Point, strong services and high -level athletics of the first Serbian first year. After losing his first 6-4 set against Evan Wen, Pisaric pushed his match to a third set with a 6-2 second set victory that helped Pepperdine stay in the fight.
Pisaric pierced in the fifth match by breaking Wen on Deuce Point, then consolidated the break for an advance of 4-2 – due to Fix took a big lead in court Six. Wen was broken on a double fault in the seventh game, giving Pisaric the opportunity to serve the match.
Despite the delay of 30 to 40 years, Pisaric resulted in a break point to discuss the decision point. Serving on the advertising side, Pisaric did its first service and loaded the net to hit a set of setbacks in Wen, hit the brakes, then remote for a winner above which sent the Pepperdine touch line in a frenzy.
Pepperdine returns to Malibu to face the reigning champion in simple NCAA Michael Zheng and Columbia n ° 7 under the lights on Thursday March 20 at 7 p.m. – which was initially scheduled for Friday, March 21. All calendar updates can be found on the schedule page of the male tennis team on Pepperdinewaves.com.
RESULTS
Simple
1. # 69 Edward Winter (PEPP) Def. # 33 Paul Inshauspe (Prin) 6-1, 4-1, retired
2. # 59 Top Nidunjianzan (PRIN) def. # 47 Maxi Homberg (PEPP) 6-0, 6-0
3 and 3 Linus Carlsson Halldin (PEPP) against Landon Ardila (PRIN) 6-4, 6-7 (3), 3-3 unfinished
4 Power Puertner (PEPP) Def. Ellis Short (PRIN) 6-0, 6-2
5 Aleksa Pisaric (PEPP) Def. Evan WEN (PRIN) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
6. David Fix (PEPP) Def. Aleksandar Mitric (PRIN) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
Finishing order: 2.1,4,6.5 *
Double
1. # 62 Filippos Astreinidis / Paul Inshauspe (PRIN) def. Edward Winter/ Hugh winteR (PEPP) 7-6 (3)
2. Top Nidunjianzan / Ellis Short (PRIN) def. # 72 Linus Carlsson Halldin/ /Maxi Homberg (PEPP) 6-3
3 and 3 Aleksa Pisaric/ /Power Puertner (PEPP) Def. Landon Ardila / Aleksandar Mitric (PRIN) 6-1
Finishing order: 3,2.1 *