Seventh-Ranked San Diego Beats No. 25 Pepperdine for WCC Tournament Title
Next Match: vs. NCAA Tournament First and Second Rounds 5/2/2025 | Next Match Full Schedule May. 02 (Fri) vs. NCAA Tournament First and Second Rounds HistoryDoublesSinglesMatch Notes:No. 7 San Diego Men's Tennis hoisted it's eighth WCC Tournament Title in the last nine seasons, powering to a 4-2 win over No. 23 Pepperdine on Saturday night at the Aztec Tennis Center.The Toreros rebounded from a dropped doubles point to post impressive results across the board in singles on the road to victory and a second consecutive conference tournament championship. Now 23-3 on the season with 11 of those wins being over top-25 opponents, seventh-ranked San Diego will next wait to hear it's name called in Monday's NCAA Tournament Selection Show, in which the top 16 teams host a regional. In the program's 45-year history, USD has never hosted an NCAA Tournament round.Eight days ago, the Toreros traveled up to Malibu and topped the Waves – also by a score of 4-2 – to clinch a fourth straight WCC regular season title. Today's match, while the same score, was won through a different formula. Contrary to a week prior, USD lost the doubles point on Saturday under the title match lights. Pepperdine claimed the point with wins on both courts two and three.Singles started with more of the same from a week before, however. Redshirt-juniorposted another straight-set victory on court three, 6-4, 6-3 to improve his season record to 17-3 and knot the score at one. Then, national No. 3took care of ITA No. 23 Edward Winter, 6-4, 6-4 on main court to put San Diego on top for the first time on the night.Things weren't looking well for gradon court two as he was down a set and up against the ropes railing 3-5 in the second against a top-90 opponent. The 78-ranked vet rallied, however, winning a remarkable 10 unanswered games to take the second set 7-5 and the third 6-0.Freshman, who had clinched the match and was stormed by his teammates on court five a week before, didn't find the same fortune tonight. He was met with a three-set loss, despite a valiant 7-6 tiebreaker win in the second set, bringing the score to 3-2 Toreros.It was German juniorwho would play hero and deliver the final blow, winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 on court five, rebounding from having lost to his Pepperdine counterpart a week before. Niedner's teammates stormed the court to trounce and celebrate his clinch, later surprising him with a full cooler of water dumped over his head.Also after the match, San Diego was awarded five WCC Men's Tennis Championships All-Tournament honors: National No. 5 pairing Tarvet and Klaassen in doubles as well as individually in singles, Niedner in singles and Danilov in singles.San Diego will wait to hear it's name called as hosts of the NCAA Tournament First and Second Rounds for the first time in program history in Monday's selection show. The NCAA Tournament selection show will be broadcast on NCAA.com at 3:30 p.m. PT Monday, April 28. The first and second rounds will take place next Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4.No. 7 San Diego 4, No. 25 Pepperdine 21. #5(USD) vs. #64 Winter,Edward/Winter,Hugh (PEPP) 4-4, unfinished2. Homberg,Maxi/Halldin,Linus (PEPP) def.(USD) 6-43. Pisaric,Aleksa/Poertner,Lasse (PEPP) def.(USD) 6-21. #3(USD) def. #23 Winter,Edward (PEPP) 6-4, 6-42. #78(USD) def. #87 Homberg,Maxi (PEPP) 4-6, 7-5, 6-03.(USD) def. Halldin,Linus (PEPP) 6-3, 6-44. Poertner,Lasse (PEPP) def.(USD) 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-15.(USD) def. Pisaric,Aleksa (PEPP) 6-3, 3-6, 6-26.(USD) vs. Fix,David (PEPP) 6-4, 6-7 (10-12), 0-4, unfinishedPepperdine 16-11; National ranking #25San Diego 24-3; National ranking #7Order of finish: Doubles (3,2); Singles (3,1,2,4,5)
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