The Chicago State men's tennis team earned a pair of doubles victories on the final day of the PNW Fall Invitational hosted by Purdue Northwest at the Park Forest Racquet Club in Park Forest, IL.
Pedro Alvarez and
Hugo Hidalgo Vega won by identical 8-5 scores against opponents from Lake Superior State and Purdue Northwest. Teams played singles Saturday then doubles Sunday. Alvarez did not compete in the singles competition and moved into the doubles lineup when
Max Sandoval retired injured from his second singles match Saturday.
Complete Chicago State results for both days listed below.
"I'm disappointed with our competitiveness in singles and it showed in our overall results," head coach
Jack Barton said. "Doubles, as a team, was a bit better this weekend. I thought we competed well over the last few weeks and that would lead to a few more wins than we got Saturday and Sunday. We have a short turn around before ITA's so I'm hoping we can make the adjustments so we can be more competitive than we were this weekend."
The Chicago State men's tennis team will be back on the court October 20-24 at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships hosted by the University of Illinois at the Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Illinois. The ITA Regional Championships feature some of the top men's and women's players across the country with over 8,000 student-athletes from NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, Junior and Community Colleges competing across 85 ITA Regional Championships around the country. In Division I, regional doubles champions and regional singles champions and finalists qualify for the season-ending ITA National Fall Championships. .
PNW Fall Invitational
Hosted by Purdue Northwest
Park Forest Racquet Club
October 15-16
Chicago State Results
Saturday's Results
Singles
Hugo Hidalgo Vega, Chicago State defeated Aaron Osmondl, Lake Superior, 6-4, 7-6
Maxence Hamon, Lake Superior defeated
Max Sandoval, Chicago State, 2-6, 7-6, 11-9
Luca Kirchoff, PNW defeated
Arhaan Pahwa, Chicago State, 6-3, 6-1
Paul Saleh, Olivet defeated
Reed Gahagan, Chicago State, 6-2, 6-1
Luca Kirchoff, PNW defeated
Max Sandoval, Chicago State, 6-4, 4-0 (retired)
Maxence Hamon, Lake Superior defeated
Arhaan Pahwa, Chicago State, 6-3, 6-1
Hugo Hidalgo Vega, Chicago State defeated Guido Picasso, Lake Superior, 6-2, 6-4
Brian Ayala, Olivet defeated
Reed Gahagan, Chicago State, 6-2, 6-0
Sunday's Results
Doubles
Pedro Alvarez and
Hugo Hidalgo Vega defeated Osmond/Hamon, Lake Superior State, 8-5
Alvear/Kirchhoff, Purdue NW defeated
Arhaan Pahwa and
Reed Gahagan, Chicago State, 8-5
Pedro Alvarez and
Hugo Hidalgo Vega defeated Flores/Gutierrez, Purdue NW, 8-5
García/Koyuncu, Lake Superior State defeated
Arhaan Pahwa and
Reed Gahagan, Chicago State. 9-7
About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach
Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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