Saturday featured a head-spinning number of matches in the NCAA Division I Team Championships, with 15 of the men's Sweet 16 and eight of the women's Sweet 16 decided today.
The biggest upset of the day came this evening, when the Pepperdine men, ranked 27, defeated No. 7 seed LSU 4-3 in Baton Rouge. LSU took the doubles point, but the Waves won five first sets in singles. LSU got the point at line 2, where they had won the first set, for a 2-0 lead, but Pepperdine responded with wins at lines 5 and 6. LSU retook the lead with a three-set win at line 1, but Pepperdine was up in the third sets at lines 3 and 4, and after freshman Gustavo Almeida tied it with a win at 4, sophomore Aleksa Pisaric clinched the Waves first Sweet 16 appearance since 2013 with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 win over Andrej Loncarevic.
With a Top 8 seed eliminated, a new Super Regional host is needed, with No. 10 Baylor now welcoming Pepperdine next weekend, rather than the Bears traveling to Baton Rouge.
At 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, in a match moved indoors at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, No. 16 seed UCF, down 3-0 to Florida, came all the way back to beat Florida, with senior Yassine Dlimi saving two match points at line 1 to clinch the 4-3 victory in a third set tiebreaker. Dlimi was serving to Florida's Adhithya Ganesan at 4-5 30-40 in the third set, but hit a good first serve to earn a deuce point, then another to set up a forehand Ganesan couldn't handle to keep UCF alive. After two holds, Dlimi and Ganesan traded mini-breaks early in the tiebreaker, but Dlimi kept his errors to a minimum and rode the home crowd support to a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(4) victory.
The Texas A&M men's regional was postponed Friday due to rain, so those two matches were played today.
Men's Saturday Round 1
Texas A&M Regional
Stanford[2] d. Penn[3] 4-1
Texas A&M[1] d. Wagner[4] 4-0
Men's Regional Finals/Super Regional Matchups
*Wake Forest[1] d. Old Dominion[2] 4-0
Florida[2] d. UCF[1]
Oklahoma[1] d. Southern Cal[2] 4-0
*Arizona[1] d. Clemson[3] 4-2
*Mississippi State[1] d. Wisconsin[2] 4-0
Georgia[1] d. NC State[2] 4-0
South Carolina[1] d. Michigan State[2] 4-1
*Virginia[1] d. Columbia[2] 4-2
*Ohio State[1] d. Cal[3] 4-0
Illinois[1] d. Vanderbilt[3] 4-0
Texas A&M[1] v. Stanford[2]
*TCU[1] d. Cornell[2] 4-0
Pepperdine[2] d. LSU[1] 4-3
*Baylor[1] d. Auburn[2] 4-1
San Diego[1] d. UCLA[2] 4-0
*Texas[1] d. SMU[2] 4-0
*Host Super Regional
The only seeded women's team that failed to advance today was No. 16 Arizona State, who lost to UCLA in Tempe 4-3. It was the second consecutive day that UCLA had won a thriller, with Olivia Center clinching 6-3 in the third against San Diego State at line 5 on Friday and Ahmani Guichard clinching 6-4 in the third at line 6 against the Sun Devils today. UCLA will most likely travel to Georgia for the Super Regional, although the Bulldogs need to get by Charlotte in Athens Sunday. Other than Arizona State, no women's seed lost more than one point in their second round matches today.
Women's first round results
Saturday May 2:
(1)Georgia Regional
Charlotte[2] d. Elon[3] 4-0
Georgia[1] d. Alabama State[4] 4-0
(3)Ohio State Regional
Notre Dame[3] d. Arizona[2] 4-3
Ohio State[1] d. Youngstown State[4] 4-0
(4)Texas A&M Regional
Baylor[3] d. Wisconsin[2] 4-3
Texas A&M[1] d. Quinnipiac[4] 4-0
(6)Oklahoma Regional
SMU[2] d. Wichita State[3] 4-1
Oklahoma[1] d. Kansas[4] 4-0
(7)Virginia Regional
Washington[2] d. Liberty[3] 4-0
Virginia[1] d. St. Francis[4] 4-0
(9)Texas Regional
Texas Tech[2] d. Yale[3] 4-1
Texas[1] d. Tarleton State 5-1
(10)LSU Regional
Rice[3] d. TCU[2] 4-2
LSU[1] d. Stephen F. Austin[4] 4-0
(12)Michigan Regional
Florida[2] d. Toledo[3] 4-0
Michigan[1] d. Illinois State[4] 5-0
Women's Regional Finals/Super Regional Matchups
*Georgia[1] v Charlotte[2]
UCLA[2] d. Arizona State[1] 4-3
Texas[1] v Texas Tech[2]
*NC State[1] d. UCF[2] 4-0
*North Carolina[1] d. South Carolina 4-0
Michigan[1] v Florida[2]
Southern Cal[1] d. Cal[2] 4-1
**Texas A&M[1] v Baylor[3]
Vanderbilt[1] d. Clemson[2] 4-1
**Ohio State[1] v. Notre Dame[3]
Pepperdine[1] d. Stanford[2] 4-0
**Oklahoma[1] v SMU[2]
**Virginia[1] v Washington[2]
LSU[1] v Rice[3]
*Auburn[1] d. Miami[2] 4-0
Duke[1] d. Tennessee[2] 4-1
*Host Super Regional
**Host Super Regional if they win Sunday
The USTA's men's Roland Garros wild card race was decided today, with Darwin Blanch, the only player remaining with a chance to catch Nishesh Basavareddy, falling in the semifinals of the Challenger 100 in Austria. Former Stanford All-American Basavareddy, who won the USTA's 2025 Australian Open wild card, finishes with 112 points after earning 75 as champion of the Savannah Challenger last Sunday.
The USTA's women's Roland Garros wild card will go to 19-year-old Akasha Urhobo, who defeated qualifier Madison Brengle 7-6(3), 6-3 in today's semifinals at the
W100 in Bonita Springs Florida. With that win she clinched the wild card, with No. 6 seed Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) needing a win today and a loss by Urhobo to stay in the race. Stoiana lost to unseeded Angela Fita Boluda of Spain 6-3, 6-2.
At the
W35 in Boca Raton, 16-year-olds Welles Newman and Jordyn Hazelitt won their first Pro Circuit doubles title, with the wild cards defeating unseeded Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) and Mexico's Jessica Hinojosa Gomez 7-6(8), 6-3 in the final.
Amelia Honer, the recent UC-Santa Barbara All-American, advanced to the singles final in Boca Raton, with last week's Charlotte W35 champion beating No. 3 seed Hibah Shaikh(Virginia) 6-3, 6-3. To win her second straight title, Honer will need to again beat the top seed in the final, as she did in Charlotte. No. 1 Julia Riera of Argentina beat unseeded Justina Maria Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina 7-6(5), 6-2 today to advance to the final.
Keaton Hance's run at M15s in Florida came to an end today in
Orange Park, with the 18-year-old Southern Californian dropping a 6-3, 6-2 decision to No. 3 seed Nick Hardt of the Dominican Republic. Hardt will face No. 7 seed Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway, who beat top seed Raphael Perot(Texas A&M) of France 6-2, 6-3.
Former Illinois teammates Hunter Heck and Great Britain's Oliver Okonkwo won their first title as a pair, with the No. 3 seeds defeating unseeded Dakotah Bobo(LSU, Southern Miss) and Benjamin Koch(LSU) 7-5, 6-3 in the final.
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