Box Score ROME, Ga. – The Portland doubles team of Nikola Keremedchiev and Stefan Skobelev fell to a nationally ranked duo from Notre Dame on Friday in the Round of 16 at the 2024 ITA Conference Masters Championships, hosted at the Rome Tennis Center.

Keremedchiev and Skobelev, who defeated a tandem from East Tennessee State on Thursday, fell to the tournament's No. 2 seeded team and No. 46-ranked Peter Nad and Sebastian Dominko from Notre Dame by a 7-6, 6-2 margin.

" We played much better today," Portland head coach Aaron Gross said. "We were up a break in the first set and lost a crucial no ad point. The other team stepped their game up a little bit in the second set, but I think we did a good job. We were much more aggressive, but the margin for error as the level gets higher is so much smaller. If we consolidate that break in the first, I think Stefan serves out the set and we're guaranteed getting a super tiebreaker to decide it, but that point and a couple of others in the tiebreaker went the wrong way and it's tough to recover against a good team."

The ITA Conference Masters Championships has a field featuring one singles player and one doubles team from each of the 27 NCAA Division I conferences in men's tennis. The 32-draw field will send three doubles teams to the newly formatted 2024 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships hosted Nov. 19-24, 2024 in Waco, Texas. The doubles champion, runner up and third place team all will earn qualification.

The ITA Conference Masters Championships is one of four pathways for individuals and doubles teams to earn spots in the championship field, which has shifted away from the Spring season. The others are the ITA All-American Championships, ITA Regionals and ITA Sectionals.

ITA Conference Masters Championships
Rome, Ga. (Rome Tennis Center)
Nov. 7-10, 2024

Doubles
32 Nikola Keremedchiev/Stefan Skobelev (POR) def. Martin Garcia-Ripoll Ore/Francisco Lamas (ETSU) 6-4, 2-6, 10-8
16 #46 Peter Nad/Sebastian Dominko (ND) def. Keremedchiev/Skobelev (POR) 7-6 (2), 6-2
 
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