NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Purdue men's tennis players bowed out of the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships while playing on the courts at Vanderbilt's Currey Tennis Center Friday. Ricky Medinilla and Mateus Silva were eliminated from the singles main draw and Medinilla and Diego Acosta were bounced from the doubles main draw.
In the round of 32, Medinilla rebounded from an opening set 6-4 loss to Tennessee's No. 28-seed Igor Smelyanski to take the second set, 6-2. The 12th-seeded Boilermaker was ousted in the decisive set, 6-4.
Silva, the No. 27-seed, began the day by upsetting 10th-seeded and 114th-ranked Diego Nunez of Eastern Tennessee State in the round of 32, 7-5 (6), 6-4. He was denied a spot in the round of 16 as No. 26-seed Ryan Peniston took a three-setter from the Purdue junior, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.
The third-seeded and 41st-ranked tandem of Acosta and Medinilla were upended by the unseeded Eastern Kentucky duo of Alex Alvero and Juanjo de la Llera, 8-5, in their round of 32 match.
The USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships format features singles matches playing the best of three sets with no-ad scoring and a tiebreak at six all. Doubles are playing an eight-game pro set with no-ad scoring and a tiebreak at seven all.
In addition to Purdue and host Vanderbilt, teams represented at USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships include: Austin Peay, Ball State, Belmont, Butler, Chattanooga, Dayton, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee State, Indiana, IUPUI, Kentucky, Lipscomb, Louisville, Memphis, Middle Tennessee State, Morehead State, Murray State, Northern Kentucky, Tennessee, Tennessee Tech and Xavier.
Singles and doubles champions from each of the 12 USTA/ITA Division I Regional Championships will advance to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Nov. 6-9 in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
The Purdue men's tennis team wraps up its fall schedule at the Big Ten Singles Championships Oct. 31 - Nov. 3 in Minneapolis, Minn.