ITHACA, N.Y. -- Rodrigo Fernandes had his fall season come to a close after a loss to 64th-ranked Lucas Andrade da Silva of South Carolina in the consolation quarterfinals at the ITA East Section Championship on Saturday morning at North Carolina's Chewning Tennis Center.
Andrade da Silva earned a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Fernandes to advance to Sunday's final day of competition on UNC's campus. Fernandes will head into spring dual meet season with a team-best 10-3 record in singles.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Sophomore Rodrigo Fernandes stayed alive in the back draw, while Felipe Pinzon dropped a heartbreaker on day two of the 2025 ITA Division I Men's East Sectional Championships at North Carolina's Chewning Tennis Center. The doubles team of Rushil Khosla and Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar also fell in their second round match at the ITA Conference Masters on Friday evening at San Diego's Barnes Tennis Center after giving the brackets' top seed all they could handle.
Fernandes bounced back from his first round loss to capture a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Old Dominion's Adam Majchrzak on Friday morning. The tournament's sixth seed will face No. 2 Lucas Andrade da Silva of South Carolina in the consolation quarterfinals on Saturday at 11 a.m.
Pinzon and Harvard's Melchior Delloye played an instant classic that ended in the Crimson player's favor, 4-6, 7-6, 7-6. Pinzon led 5-1 in the third only to fall behind 6-5 and rally to send it to tiebreakers at 6-6. Delloye pulled out the victory, ending Pinzon's tournament.
Khosla and Senthil Kumar took the first set from Pepperdine's Edward and Hugh Winter, 6-3, but lost in tiebreakers in both the second and third set to have their chance at an NCAA Tournament bid thwarted. The 3-6, 7-6(4), 11-9 defeat in the round of 16 closed out the weekend for the Ivy champs.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Junior Felipe Pinzon advanced to the round of 16, while sophomore Rodrigo Fernandes moved into the consolation draw on Thursday at the 2025 ITA Division I Men's East Sectional Championships at North Carolina's Chewning Tennis Center. The Big Red doubles team of Rushil Khosla and Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar also won their first match at the ITA Conference Masters late Thursday at San Diego's Barnes Tennis Center.
Pinzon rallied for a gritty 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 win over Wake Forest's Kacper Szmkowiak, who entered the tournament ranked No. 91 nationally. The Big Red junior will face Melchior Delloye of Harvard on Friday for a spot in the quarterfinals.
Fernandes fell in a competitive 6-2, 7-6 match to Wake's Joaquin Guilleme and will meet Adam Majchrzak of Old Dominion in Friday's consolation round.
Six singles players from each of four sectional sites will advance to the NCAA Singles Championship.
Khosla and Senthil Kumar made quick work of South Carolina State's Mikalai Bankou and Bastian Zamora, champions of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, with 6-1, 6-1 victory in the round of 32. They have the top-seeded brother pair of Edward and Hugh Winter from Pepperdine waiting for them on Friday. The top three doubles teams from the Conference Masters will move on to the NCAA Doubles Championship, where teammates Pinzon and senior Petar Teodorovic are already settled in with an automatic bid.
