Complete Results

EDINBURG, Texas – In a match lasting over five hours, featuring three tiebreakers and two three-set singles matches, the University of Texas-Pan American Broncs men's tennis team fell in their home opener, 4-3, to the University of Maryland Baltimore County Retrievers on Friday at Orville Cox Tennis Center.
 
The overall match was tied a 3-3 with the No. 5 singles match still going on. After falling 7-6 after a tiebreak in the first set, Sebastien Job found himself trailing Daniel Gray 4-3 in the second set. Job tied the match up at 4-4, but Gray took the next game to get the chance to give the Retrievers (7-7) a victory with one more win. Job, however, won three-straight games to take the set 7-5 and force a decisive third set.
 
Job took the first game, but Gray took the next three. Job won back-to-back games to tie it up at 3-3. Job and Gray traded games from there, leading them to be tied at 5-5. Job won his second game in a row to take a 6-5 lead, but Gray tied the set and then won the tiebreaker to take the set 7-6 and clinch the match. The final set lasted about an hour and a half.
 
The Broncs (7-6) got off to a good start. In the No. 1 doubles match, Cristian Hodel and Patrick Amorim won the first game for the Retrievers, but the Broncs' duo of Beau Bernstein and Chetan Panditi responded by winning three-straight games to go ahead 3-1. Hodel and Amorim won two-straight games to tie the set, but Bernstein and Panditi won the final five games to take the match 8-3.
 
Up 3-2 in the No. 2 doubles match, the team of Sebastien Job and Ricardo Hopker won back-to-back games to take a 5-2 lead before going on to win 8-5 to clinch the point.
 
In singles, Hopker dominated the first set in the No. 2 position, taking the first set 6-0. Joe Adewumi played hard in the second set, but Hopker took the tiebreaker to win the set 7-6.
 
Bernstein won the No. 1 singles match, 6-3, 6-1 over Hodel. Around the same time, Victor Alves fell to Kamal Patel 6-4, 6-1 in the No. 6 match as the Broncs led 3-1.
 
Juan Aranzazu took the No. 3 singles match for the Retrievers 6-4, 6-4 over Chetan Panditi to cut the Broncs' lead to 3-2.
 
On court number four, Gaulthier Berret won the first set for the Retrievers against Rolf Niederstrasser 6-4, but Niederstrasser won the second set 6-3. Berret jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the third set and went on to win 6-2.
 
The Broncs return to action on Sunday, April 1 at 2:00 p.m. when they welcome Laredo Community College, the second-ranked team nationally among junior colleges, to the Orville Cox Tennis Center.
 
The University of Texas-Pan American Department of Intercollegiate Athletics competes at the NCAA Division I classification. UTPA, formerly known as Pan American College and Pan American University, is a part of the University of Texas System of Schools. The Broncs compete in 14 varsity sports; men's and women's basketball, golf, tennis, track and field, and cross country, along with women's volleyball and men's baseball. In 1963, then known as Pan American College, the Broncs men's basketball program won the NAIA National Championship with a 73-62 victory over Western Carolina. In 2008 UTPA joined the new all-sports division of the Great West Conference.