Men’s Tennis Completes First Day of Duck Invitational

EUGENE, Ore. – Portland men's tennis swept its three doubles matches and has two players in the singles semifinals after Friday action to open the Duck Invitational hosted at the Student Tennis Center.

Portland's doubles tandems of Leo Hibi/Oscar Brown, Julien Penzlin/Nikolas Tvedt and Eleftherios Neos/Issa Yoshida won their Round of 16 morning matches and advance to Saturday's quarterfinals.

The Pilots went 6-4 in singles action with Tvedt and Brown reaching the semifinals of the Yellow Draw singles. Nicklas Oberg won his opening match in the Yellow Draw in three sets, but pulled out thereafter due to injury.

In the top-flight Green Draw, Yoshida cruised in his opening round match in straight sets before falling to nationally-ranked Joshua Charlton of Oregon in the quarterfinals.

Day two of the Duck Invitational begins with doubles action at 9 a.m. Updated draws can be found here.

Duck Invitational
Eugene, Ore. (Student Tennis Center)
Nov. 12-14, 2021

Singles – Green Draw
16 Issa Yoshida (POR) def. Delmas N'Tcha (NEV) 6-0, 6-1
16 Nedim Suko (UW) def. Julien Penzlin (POR) 6-4, 6-3
16 Rikuto Yamaguchi (UW) def. Eleftherios Neos (POR) 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (2)
QF #90 Joshua Charlton (UO) def. Yoshida (POR) 6-2, 6-4

Singles – Yellow Draw
16 Nikolas Tvedt (POR) def. Will Jesser (PSU) 6-3, 7-6 (8)
16 Oscar Brown (POR) def. Alexander Maggs (UNM) 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-1
16 Nicklas Oberg (POR) def. Tommy Hsu (PSU) 6-4, 3-6, 60
16 Ryoma Matsushita (UO) def. Leo Hibi (POR) 6-1, 6-1
QF Tvedt (POR) def. Georgio Samaha (UNM) 6-1, 2-6, 6-3
QF Brown (POR) def. Jack Pulliam (UW) 6-4, 7-5
QF Avi Shugar (UO) vs. Oberg (POR) WO (inj)
SF Tvedt (POR) vs. Matsushita (UO) Saturday
SF Brown (POR) vs. Shugar (UO) Saturday

Doubles
16 Hibi/Brown (POR) def. Azkara/Prieto (UNM) 8-7 (2)
16 Penzlin/Tvedt (POR) def. Campi/Marchand (NEV) 8-4
16 Neos/Yoshida (POR) def. De Vries/Jesser (PSU) 8-7 (5)
QF Hibi/Brown (POR) vs. Charlton/Klov-Nilsson (UO) Saturday
QF Penzlin/Tvedt (POR) vs. Pulliam/Wong (UW) Saturday
QF Neos/Yoshida (POR) vs. Pucalka/Maggs (UNM) Saturday

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