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Three Coastal Doubles Teams Eliminated At ITA Regionals

       

Matt Gordon advanced to the round of 32 Thursday at the ITA Regionals.

Matt Gordon advanced to the round of 32 Thursday at the ITA Regionals.

Oct. 14, 2010

Complete Results

DURHAM, N.C. – The Coastal Carolina men’s tennis team had two of its doubles teams reach the round of 32, but ultimately were eliminated thereafter on the first day of the ITA-USTA 2010 Carolinas Regional from the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

Freshman Leo Christofides and Yusuke Kusuda won their first match in the opening round with an 8-3 victory over James Atkinson and Dillon Berkabile of The Citadel.  The Chanticleer duo fell 8-0 in the following round to Chase Helpingstine and Philip Nemec of Elon. 

Ninth-seeded Peter Billingham and Matt Gordon turned in an 8-4 win over Amogh Prabhakar and Conner Sherwood of Wake Forest.  Billingham and Gordon were then upset 8-3 in the round of 32 by North Carolina’s Cameron Ahari and Alex Rafiee. 

In the other Chanticleer doubles match of the day, Alex Funkhouser and Dorian Sovic dropped an 8-6 decision to Calum Gee and Joe Schafer of Davidson. 

The ITA-USTA 2010 Carolinas Regional resumes Friday with the beginning of singles competition.