Pepperdine Pre-Match Notes
· Texas and Pepperdine will meet for the second time this season; the Longhorns dealt the Waves a 5-2 defeat on April 14 in Austin
· Texas holds a 9-7 lead in its series with Pepperdine
· Pepperdine reached the NCAA semifinals by handing UCLA a 4-1 defeat in Sunday's quarterfinals in San Francisco; the Waves knocked off Florida in Saturday's round of 16
· A Texas win would land the Longhorns in the finals for the first time in school history; Texas finished as the NCAA runner-up in 1955 before the introduction of the team tournament in 1977
· Texas coach Michael Center (South Central) and Pepperdine coach Adam Steinberg (West) each were named Coach of the Year in their respective regions
· Live scoring and video from each court will be available on the official NCAA Men's Tennis Championships page at GoStanford.com
Below are the results from the April 14 Texas-Pepperdine match in Austin. Rankings listed are from the April 11 ITA polls
No. 3 Texas 5, No. 2 Pepperdine 2
Doubles - Order of Finish: 2, 1, 3
Beale/Reyes Varela (UT) def. No. 1 Doerner/Begemann (PU) - 8-5
Rico/Lovrak (PU) def. Gubser/Chodkiewicz (UT) - 8-5
No. 38 Helgeson/Venus (UT) def. Altmann/Johnson (PU) - 9-8
Singles - Order of Finish: 6, 5, 1, 2, 4, 3
No. 7 Travis Helgeson (UT) def. No. 6 Scott Doerner (PU) - 6-0, 1-6, 6-1
No. 25 Pedro Rico (PU) def. No. 36 Roger Gubser (UT) - 7-6, 7-5
No. 39 Callum Beale (UT) def. No. 54 Ivor Lovrak (PU) - 7-6, 6-7, 1-0 (10-2)
Andre Begemann (PU) def. Milan Mihailovic (UT) - 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Miguel Reyes Varela (UT) def. Richard Johnson (PU) - 6-1, 6-1
Michael Venus (UT) def. Omar Altmann (PU) - 6-0, 6-3
Ohio State Post-Match Notes
· Texas improved to 27-23 in NCAA tournament play and 11-5 under coach Michael Center
· UT reached the NCAA semifinals for the second time in school history and the first time since 1993
· In 1993, Texas defeated Tennessee and Stanford to reach the semifinals, where the Longhorns fell to eventual national champion Southern California
· UT sophomore Travis Helgeson extended his unbeaten streak to eight matches with his 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over OSU's 33rd-ranked Bryan Koniecko
· UT freshman Miguel Reyes Varela, like Helgeson, also is unbeaten in his last eight matches; he suffered his last defeat to Baylor's Matt Brown on April 19
· Texas' Reyes Varela and Callum Beale teamed up for their second defeat of a No. 1-ranked doubles tandem this season when they rallied for a 9-7 win over the Buckeyes' Ross Wilson and Scott Green, who hold the top seed in the upcoming NCAA Doubles Championships; Reyes Varela and Beale also defeated Pepperdine's then-No. 1 tandem of Scott Doerner and Andre Begemann last month in Austin
· Helgeson and sophomore Luis Diaz Barriga improved to 5-0 as a doubles tandem with their 8-5 victory over Devin Mullings and Chris Klingemann
· Center reached the NCAA semifinals for the first time in his 15 seasons as a coach
· With his 6-2, 7-6 (4) win over Chris Klingemann at second singles, UT senior Roger Gubser moved into a tie for fifth on Texas' all-time singles wins list; he is tied with Trey Phillips at 105 wins
· Texas improved to 4-0 in its series with the Buckeyes and snapped Ohio State's 19-match winning streak
General NCAA Tournament Notes
· With Sunday's rainy conditions in Palo Alto, all four men's quarterfinal matches were moved to the San Francisco Tennis Club
· Top-seeded Georgia knocked off eighth-seeded Virginia, 4-0, and fifth-seeded Baylor rallied for a 4-3 victory late Sunday night over 13th-seeded Stanford; Georgia and Baylor will meet at 5 p.m. PDT following the Texas-Pepperdine match
· Given Sunday's postponement of the women's semifinal matches, the women's final now will be held on Tuesday at 3 p.m. CDT before the men's final; As a result, Tuesday's NCAA men's title match has been pushed back to 8:30 p.m. CDT
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