Jan. 15, 2016 Complete Results
THE RUNDOWN
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Baylor men's tennis senior
Julian Lenz made the Sherwood Collegiate Cup quarterfinals by winning two singles matches at the Sherwood Country Club Friday.
In the 32-man singles draw, the No. 1 seeded Lenz took out Stanford's Roy Lederman, 6-3, 6-2 in the opening round and then bested 83rd-ranked Jake Devine of USC, 6-2, 6-2, to reach the quarterfinals.
BU's lone ranked singles participant, 59th-ranked Max Tchoutakian started his day with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over UCLA's Michael Guzman. The Baylor senior then fell to Rob Bellamy of USC in the round of 16, 6-2, 7-6(3).
The other four singles players from Baylor in the draw all dropped their opening match.
Freshman Jimmy Bendeck lost 6-2, 6-4 to 41st-ranked Nick Crystal of USC, but then bounced back to beat Stanford's Brandon Sutter, 6-4, 6-0, in the first round of the consolation draw.
Meanwhile, redshirt freshman Will Little dropped a 6-4, 7-6(4) contest to No. 98 Logan Staggs of UCLA, before rebounding to down USC's Tanner Smith, 6-2, 6-2 in the consolation draw.
Both Tommy Podvinski and Felipe Rios lost both of their matches on the first day of action in California.
WHAT'S NEXT
Play continues at the Sherwood Collegiate Cup on Saturday as doubles action leads things off at 12:15 p.m. CT. Meanwhile, singles quarterfinal action begins at 1:30 p.m. CT.
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