No. 2 Seeded and ranked Trojan tennis teams beat SacState and USD 4-0 to advance to Final 16 at Stanford for the Ncaa Championships. There was no Particular leader in winning the last two matches just an overall team effort from a great mix of talent on this years team, which has a 14 match winning streak at 23-2. Daniel Nguyen has been the constant player in the last two matches with a 6-2, 6-2 win over #120 Nikola Bubnic (USD) and Marko Starcevic (SAC) - 6-3, 6-2, looking back on track for the #3 singles player.
2 USC 4, Sacramento State 0
NCAA Championships- First Round
Marks Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Doubles
(1) Harbatsiuk/Starcevic (SAC) def. #22 Poldma/Sundling (USC) - 8-3
(2) Johnson/Gomez (USC) def. Smith/Malko (SAC) - 8-0
(3) Nguyen/Sarmiento (USC) def. Millan/Lorentzen (SAC) - 8-3
Order of finish: 2, 1, 3
USC wins doubles point.
Singles
(1) #1 Steve Johnson (USC) def. #29 Kiryl Harbatsiuk (SAC) - 6-1, 6-2
(2) #38 Jaak Poldma (USC) vs. Jason Smith (SAC) - 6-1, 4-1 - DNF
(3) #44 Daniel Nguyen (USC) def. Marko Starcevic (SAC) - 6-3, 6-2
(4) #47 Ray Sarmiento (USC) def. Javier Millan (SAC) - 6-2, 6-1
(5) Emilio Gomez (USC) vs. Aliaksandr Malko (SAC) - 6-2, 6-1 DNF
(6) Peter Lucassen (USC) vs. Josh Lorentzen (SAC) - 6-3, 2-4 DNF
Order of finish: 4, 3, 1*
May 14th, 2011
#2 USC 4, #31 San Diego 0
NCAA Championships- Second Round
Marks Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Doubles
(1) #22 Poldma/Sundling (USC) def. #16 Jackson/Pohlmann (USD) - 8-3
(2) Johnson/Gomez (USC) def. Bubnic/Schive (USD) - 8-4
(3) Nguyen/Sarmiento (USC) vs. Visy/Spinosa (USD) - 7-8 - DNF
Order of finish: 1, 2*
USC wins doubles point.
Singles
(1) #1 Steve Johnson (USC) vs. #33 Dean Jackson (USD) - 7-5, 2-1 - DNF
(2) #38 Jaak Poldma (USC) vs. Patrick Pohlmann (USD) - 6-7 (5-6) - DNF
(3) #44 Daniel Nguyen (USC) def. #120 Nikola Bubnic (USD) - 6-2, 6-2
(4) #47 Ray Sarmiento (USC) vs. Clark Spinosa (USD) - 7-5, 3-5 - DNF
(5) Emilio Gomez (USC) def. Thibaut Visy (USD) - 6-1, 6-3
(6) Peter Lucassen (USC) def. Abdullah Hashem (USD) - 6-0, 6-1
Order of finish: 6, 3, 5*
Back-to-Back Champ Daniel Nguyen Goes For Three - usctrojans.com (via USCAthletics)