Riverside, CA—The UC Riverside Men's Tennis Team fell to Nevada in their third match of the 2018 season, Sunday.

UCR 2, Nevada 5
Full Match Results

The Wolf Pack took the doubles point after winning the first doubles match and in the #3 doubles, narrowly defeated Highlanders' pairing Nabil Abdallah and Anderson Ju in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-4). Highlanders Kyle McCann and Filip Engstrom pulled out a win in the #2 doubles match against the pairing of O'Donovan and Delahodde, 7-5.

Vignesh Subramanyan pulled out a victory in #6 singles (6-2, 6-4). Nabil Abdallah notched the Highlanders' second singles victory of the day in the #4 (4-6, 6-4, 6-2). Gilbert Chung had a tight match, but dropped the tiebreaker (12-10) in #5 singles.

"Once again, we had our chances to pull out a victory," said coach Mattias Johansson. "Losing the doubles point in a tiebreaker was tough. Gilbert had match points at #5 singles. We just need to find a way to win these close matches and we will be okay."

Next Up

The UC Riverside Men's Tennis Team hosts Westmont at 11 am and UC San Diego at 3:30 pm Saturday, January 27.