Trojan Doubles Team Reaches Regional Final

Saturday, October 20

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Kaes Van't Hof and Robert Farah are in Sunday's doubles final.

Trojan Doubles Team Reaches Regional Final

October 20, 2007 | Men's Tennis

Oct. 20, 2007

MALIBU, CALIF. - The USC men's tennis team has pushed a doubles duo into Sunday's championship match at the ITA West Regionals, held this weekend at Pepperdine. USC pair Rober Farah / Kaes Van't Hof have won four matches at the tournament to move into the title match against Altmann/Begemann on Sunday.

The pair cruised to an 8-3 win in the semifinals on Saturday, topping Beidas/Lemke to move into Sunday's final.

In singles action, sophomore Gary Sacks came up short of a semifinal appearance, edging his own Trojan teammate Kaes Van't Hof in the Round of 16 6-3, 6-4 before falling to No. 2 seed Harel Srugo 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinals.

USC's singles and doubles results at the ITA West Regionals to date are as follows:

SINGLESQuarterfinals(2) Harel Srugo d. Gary Sacks - 6-3, 6-4
Round of 16Gary Sacks d. (6) Kaes Van't Hof - 6-3, 6-4(3) Haythem Abid d. (9) Jaak Poldma - 7-6, 7-6
Round of 32(6) Kaes Van't Hof d. Darryn Young - 6-3, 6-1Gary Sacks d. (9) Tom Liversage - 5-6, 6-4, 7-6(9) Jaak Poldma d. Ivan Lopez - 6-2, 7-6Victor Lamm d. (9) Jason McNaughton - 4-6, 7-6, 6-4
Second Round(6) Kaes Van't Hof d. Trevor Dobson - 7-6, 6-4, 6-4Gary Sacks d. Ravid Hazi - 6-0, 6-3Jack Hui d. (9) Andrew Piotrowski - 7-5, 6-3(9) Jaak Poldma d. David Humphrey - 6-1, 6-1(9) Jason McNaughton d. Flavio Mollined - 6-2, 7-5Wes Miller d. Daniel Gliner - 7-5, 5-7, 6-4Mirko Zapletal d. Jack Levis - 7-5, 6-1
First RoundGary Sacks d. Ahmed Ismail - 7-5, 6-3Daniel Gliner d. Levon Brown - 6-3, 3-6, 6-4Jack Levis d. Gautam Vaidyanath - 6-4, 6-1
DOUBLESFinalFarah/Van't Hof (USC) ve. Altmann/Begemann
SemifinalsFarah/Van't Hof (USC) def. Beidas/Lemke - 8-3
QuarterfinalsAbid/Meister def. Gliner/McNaughton (USC) - 8-4Farah/Van't Hof (USC) def. Coetzee/Liversage - 8-6
Round of 16Brooklyn/Miller def. Levis/Poldma (USC) - 8-4Gliner/McNaughton (USC) def. Barton/Hejazi - 8-6Farah/Van't Hof (USC) def. Lamm/Tsai - 8-3
Second RoundLevis/Poldma (USC) def. Ho/Ismail - 8-2Gliner/McNaughton (USC) def. Gomez/Shitrit - 8-4Farah/Van't Hof (USC0 def. Maggi/Tadevosian - 9-7
First RoundLevis/Poldma (USC) def. Cartledge/Doan - 8-4