A few host schools easily advanced to the round of sixteen while others had unexpected season-ending losses. Old and new faces will be making trips to Winston Salem when tournament action picks up again next Friday.

The top-seeded Wake Forest Demon Deacons looked sharp in their first two rounds of the NCAA’s before they host the rest of the tournament starting Friday. The Deacs breezed past Navy 4-0 in the opening round and then took down South Carolina (29th ranked) 4-1. Borna Gojo and Skander Mansouri (21st ranked) clinched the doubles point with a 6-4 victory over Harrison O’Keefe and Yancy Dennis on court-1 to put the Deacs up 1-0 over the Gamecocks.

In singles, Petros Chrysochos (4th ranked) continued his dominance on court-2 with a 6-2, 6-0 defeat of Gabriel Friedrich (40th ranked) to make the score 2-0. South Carolina then got on the board with a 6-3, 6-2 victory by Wood Benton over Rrezart Cungu on court-6. Skander Mansouri (38th ranked) then stepped up for Wake and took down Thomas Mayronne 6-3, 7-5 to push Wake’s lead to 3-1. Gojo (7th ranked) then clinched the round of 16 berth by defeated Paul Jubb (59th ranked) 6-4, 7-6(2).

DEACS WIN! Borna Gojo closes out a second set tiebreaker and the Deacs advance to the Round of 16 with a 4-1 win over South Carolina! #GoDeacs pic.twitter.com/7X5tagsrPN — Wake Men’s Tennis (@WakeMTennis) May 13, 2018

The Deacs are scheduled to play 16th seeded Columbia next weekend, who punched their ticket to the sweet sixteen on Saturday by defeating defending champion Virginia (41st ranked) by a score of 4-2. Adam Ambrozy and Michal Rolski clinched the doubles point for the Lions by defeating Amar Alhaqbani and Spencer Boznik 6-2 on court-3.

Freshman Austen Huang put Columbia up 2-0 by defeating fellow freshman Matthew Lord 6-4, 6-1. Virginia then responded with two wins on the top courts to even the match at 2-2; Aswin Lizen (51st ranked) beat Jackie Tang (62nd ranked) 6-2, 6-3 and Carl Soderlund (24th ranked) defeated Victor Pham (27th ranked) 6-1, 7-6(5). Soon thereafter, Columbia’s Jack Lin scored a huge 6-4, 6-1 victory over Gianni Ross to give the Tigers a 3-2 lead. Timothy Wang then built off Lin’s momentum and played a dominant third set to beat Alhaqbani 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 on court-6 to clinch the win.

🎥 Interviews and highlights with @ColumbiaMTennis head coach Bid Goswami and first-years Austen Huang and Jack Lin as the Lions advance to the #Sweet16 with a 4-2 win over 3-time reigning national champion Virginia! #RoarLionRoar #OnlyHere pic.twitter.com/XHwMQedAJB — Columbia Athletics (@GoColumbiaLions) May 13, 2018

With their usual line-3 singles player Alastair Gray down for the remainder of the season with a shoulder surgery, many put the TCU Horned Frogs (9th ranked) on upset alert this weekend. TCU silenced those haters and breezed past Utah State (50th ranked) by a score of 4-1 and then dominated Oregon (33rd ranked) 4-0 in the round of 32. Against the Ducks, TCU played dominant doubles with Trevor Johnson and Reese Stalder clinching the point with a 6-2 triumph over Ty Gentry and Simon Stevens on court-2.

Alex Rybakov (21st ranked) was the first off the singles court for TCU after dominating Thomas Laurent (22nd ranked) 6-1, 6-0. Guillermo Nuñez then made the score 3-0 by defeating Akihiro Tanaka 6-4, 6-2. Stalder then clinched the win over Gentry on court-4 with a 6-4, 6-3 win.

4⃣ x AS SWEET!#TCUTennis gets the 4-0 sweep of Oregon to move into the Round of 16 for the fourth straight season!#GoFrogs 🐸🎾 pic.twitter.com/Jx9tNRx6UF — TCU Men’s Tennis (@TCUMensTennis) May 13, 2018

TCU will play Illinois (8th ranked) next Friday in the round of 16. Illinois also dominated their opponents over the weekend with two 4-0 victories. After defeating Marquette, the Illini defeated Vanderbilt (22nd ranked) to book their ticket to Winston-Salem. Aron Hiltzik and Aleks Kovacevic gave the Illini a 1-0 advantage over the Commodores heading into singles after defeating Lachlan McPhee and Max Freeman 7-5 on court-2.

Zeke Clark continued his spectacular season on the singles court with a routine 6-2, 6-2 triumph over Freeman to make the score 2-0. Kovacevic then defeated Billy Rowe on court-4 to make the score 3-0. Senior Aleks Vukic (13th ranked) then clinched the victory by defeating Cameron Klinger (26th ranked) 6-4, 6-4 on court-1.

ILLINI WIN!!! @Vuki_SMASH23 clinches the match 6-4, 6-4 and seals it with a Vuki Smash. Script us a better ending for today at Atkins. #Illini pic.twitter.com/CcvXFyloXC — Illini M Tennis (@IlliniMTennis) May 13, 2018

The Texas A&M Aggies (5th ranked) defended their home courts over the weekend to advance to Winston Salem. They defeated Lamar University 4-0 and then took down the Baylor Bears (18th ranked) 4-1. Arthur Rinderknech and AJ Catanzariti gave the Aggies the 1-0 advantage with a 6-4 defeat of Baylor’s Sven Lah and Roy Smith on court-2.

Rinderknech then made the score 2-0 by defeating Matias Soto 6-3, 6-2 on court-2. Smith then got a win of his own over Juan Carlos Aguilar 6-3, 6-4 on court-5 to put Baylor on the board. Valentin Vacherot (72nd ranked) then gave the Aggies a 3-1 advantage after his 6-0, 6-3 defeat over Will Little on court-4. Jordi Arconada (48th ranked) then clinched the win on court-3 by defeating Lah (122nd ranked) 7-6 (5), 6-4.

The Aggies will be playing Alabama (42nd ranked) who pulled off two upsets in Tallahassee over the weekend. First, the Tide defeated Tulane (23rd ranked) 4-1 and then they shocked Florida State (11th ranked) 4-2 on the Seminoles’ home courts. Thibualt Cancel and Alexey Nesterov clinched a big doubles point for Alabama by upsetting Guy Iradukunda and Alex Knaff (60th ranked) by a score of 6-4.

Edison Ortiz then put the Tide up 2-0 by defeating Jose Garcia 6-3, 7-5 on court-4. The Seminoles then evened the score at 2-2 with wins on courts 2 and 3; Iradukunda (44th ranked) defeated Patrick Kaukovalta 6-0, 7-6(4) while Lucas Poullain (35th ranked) defeated Cancel 6-3, 6-4. Nesterov then gave the Tide a 3-2 advantage by taking down Knaff 6-2, 6-4. Zhe Zhou got to be the hero for Alabama on court-6 by defeating Rana-Roop Bhallar 6-0, 1-6, 6-3 to push his team to the sweet sixteen.

Florida (13th ranked) easily advanced through their regional by first defeating South Carolina State 4-0 and then beating Miami (40th ranked) by the same score. Against the Hurricanes, Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen (5th ranked) clinched the doubles point 6-4 on court-1 over Adria Soriano and Christian Langmo to put the Gators up 1-0.

McClain Kessler then delivered a dominant 6-1, 6-2 performance against Nile Clark on court-6 to make the score 2-0. Chase Perez-Blanco was also dominant on court-5 by defeating Niclas Genovese 6-2, 6-1 to push the score to 3-0. Alfredo Perez (13th ranked) then clinched the win by defeating Bojan Jankulovski 6-4, 6-3 on court-3.

GATORS WIN!!! Oh how Sweet it is! We advance to the Round of 16 at Wake Forest next weekend!#NCAATennis #GoGators #GatorWayBestWay pic.twitter.com/hGWWGstZPb — Gators Men’s Tennis (@GatorsMTN) May 13, 2018

The Gators will be playing a familiar SEC foe in Ole Miss (38th ranked) in the round of 16 after the Rebels shocked the Stanford Cardinal (4th ranked). The Rebels won a crucial doubles point to get a 1-0 advantage going into singles with Tim Sandkaulen and Grey Hamilton (22nd ranked) beating Tom Fawcett and Michael Genender 7-5 on court-1 to clinch the point.

Ole Miss then went up 2-0 after Filip Kraljevic (107th ranked) defeated Sameer Kumar (102nd ranked) 7-5, 6-3 on court-3. Stanford then clawed their way back with 3 straight wins to take a 3-2 lead; Eric Fomba defeated Hamilton 6-1, 7-6(3) on court-4, Fawcett (9th ranked) downed Gustav Hansson (45th ranked) 6-4, 6-2 on court-1, and David Wilczynski beat Fabian Fallert 6-2, 6-3 on court-5. Sandkaulen (33rd ranked) then earned another big win on the day by defeating Axel Geller (83rd ranked) 7-6(4), 6-3 on court-2 to even the match at 3-3. Finn Reynolds delivered an extremely clutch performance for the Rebels by saving 4 match points in the second set to come back to clinch the win over William Genesen on court-6 by a final score of 2-6, 7-6(6), 6-2.

Ohio State (3rd ranked) had a routine path to the sweet 16 by first downing East Tennessee State 4-0 and then defeating Kentucky (26th ranked) by the same score. Matt Mendez and Hunter Tubert gave the Buckeyes a 1-0 advantage over Kentucky after defeating Kento Yamada and Ryo Matsumura 6-4 on court-3 to secure the doubles point.

Martin Joyce (112th ranked) quickly made the score 2-0 after dispatching Gus Benson 6-2, 6-0 on court-6. Kyle Seelig (96th ranked) then shook off a tough first set to dominate the next two sets over Austin Hussey to deliver a 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 win on court-5. JJ Wolf (41st ranked) then clinched the win over Will Bushamuka (50th ranked) on court-2 by defeating him 6-4, 6-4.

JJ Wolf adds the clinching point and the Buckeyes are headed to the round of 16 for the 13th consecutive season #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/a1iDrQvoqp — Ohio State M Tennis (@OhioState_MTEN) May 12, 2018

The Minnesota Golden Gophers (37th ranked) were another upset-minded squad over the weekend. The Gophers first beat Georgia (19th ranked) and then took down Oklahoma (14th ranked) to earn a spot against the Buckeyes on Friday. Against the Sooners, Stefan Milicevic and Marino Alpeza clinched the doubles point by defeating Ferran Calvo and Stefano Tsorotiotis 7-5 on court-3.

Felix Corwin (53rd ranked) got the first singles win of the day for the Gophers by upsetting Alex Bakshi (30th ranked) 6-4, 6-2 on court-1. Josip Krstanovic gave Minnesota a 3-0 advantage by defeating Adrian Oetzbach by the same score on court-4. Clinching the win was a bit tougher for Minnesota and Jackson Allen came from a set down to defeat Jochen Bertsch 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on court-5.

You wanted match point? We’ve got match point 😉 Jackson Allen clinches a trip to the Sweet Sixteen for Minnesota! pic.twitter.com/pZALNkYPJk — Minnesota M Tennis (@GopherMTennis) May 12, 2018

Texas (11th ranked) advanced to the round of 16 by defeating Bryant and Cal (34th ranked) by identical 4-0 scores. Against the Bears, Harrison Scott and Christian Sigsgaard (39th ranked) clinched the doubles point over Billy Griffith and JT Nishimura (33rd ranked) by a score of 6-3.

Rodrigo Banzer (104th ranked) gave the Longhorns a 2-0 advantage by defeating Paul Barretto 6-4, 6-0 on court-5. Scott (89th ranked) made the score 3-0 with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Jack Molloy on court-3. Colin Markes clinched the win on court-6 by defeating Jacob Brumm 6-1, 1-6, 6-1.

Great day for our guys and an all-around outstanding day for Texas Tennis. Check here for today’s recap + thoughts from @CoachMCenter and an up-to-date @NCAATennis bracket https://t.co/AElUxL5uVM #HookEm pic.twitter.com/CVdjRhW5gp — Texas Men’s Tennis (@TexasMTN) May 12, 2018

Texas will play SEC tournament champion Mississippi State (6th ranked) on Friday after the Bulldogs eased through their regional with 4-0 wins over Tennessee Tech and South Alabama. After dominant doubles wins on courts 2 and 3 to get the doubles point, Niclas Braun put the Bulldogs up 2-0 after defeating Lucas Gonzalez 6-2, 6-3 on court-4. Trevor Foshey then bested Maxime Lapraille 6-2, 6-4 to make the score 3-0. Gio Oradini (23rd ranked) clinched the match to send his team to Winston Salem by taking down Loic Cloes 6-3, 6-4 on court-2.

FINAL | No. 7 Mississippi State moves on to its second NCAA Round of 16 in three years with a 4-0 victory against South Alabama!#HailState🐶 | #NCAATennis pic.twitter.com/Eh20O08XSI — MSU Men’s Tennis 🎾 (@HailStateMT) May 12, 2018

North Carolina (7th ranked) also had an easy time advancing to Winston Salem with 4-0 wins over Campbell and Tennessee (20th ranked). After clinching the doubles point on court-2 with Ben Sigouin, Blaine Boyden gave his team a 2-0 advantage by defeating Tennessee’s Preston Touliatos 6-2, 6-1 on court-5. Will Bllumberg (5th ranked) then took down Timo Stodder (16th ranked) 6-2, 6-4 to push the score to 3-0. Robert Kelly clinched the win on court-4 by taking down Scott Jones 6-4, 6-4.

Final UNC 4 Tennessee 0 R Kelly clinches 6-4, 6-4 pic.twitter.com/aqcBZYOchw — UNC Men’s Tennis (@carolinatennis) May 13, 2018

North Carolina will play the USC Trojans in the round of 16 after the Trojans dispatched UCSB 4-1 and then beat Harvard 4-0 to advance to next weekend. Against the Crimson, Brandon Holt and Riley Smith (10th ranked) clinched the doubles point over Kenny Tao and Logan Weber 7-6(2) on court-1.

The Trojans then quickly went up 3-0 with Laurens Verboven downing Robert Wresinski 6-1, 6-1 on court-4 and Jack Jaede defeating Jean Thirouin 6-0, 6-2 on court-3. Daniel Cukeirman (74th ranked) clinched the win by defeating Andy Zhou 7-6(6), 6-1 on court-2.

USC defeats @HarvardMTennis 4-0 in the Second Round of the NCAA Tourney! The team now advances to the Third Round where they will face @carolinatennis in Winston-Salem, N.C. #FightOn pic.twitter.com/mfoU9gHO9z — USC Men’s Tennis (@USCMensTennis) May 14, 2018

The Michigan Wolverines (15th ranked) advanced to Winston Salem after defeating Notre Dame (25th ranked) 4-0 on Sunday. Alex Knight and Harrison Brown clinched a highly-contested doubles point by defeating Matt Gamble and Richard Ciamarra 7-6(1) on court-3.

Davis Crocker was first off the court in singles with a 6-2, 6-4 defeat of William Howells on court-6. Mattias Siimar followed that up by defeating Gamble 6-4, 6-3 on court-4. With only 1 more point needed to clinch the match. Myles Schalet had to come from a set down to defeat Guillermo Cabrera 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 on court-3.

M: Schalet with the clincher!!! We’re off to the round of 16!#GoBlue pic.twitter.com/V4lLWkNO93 — Michigan Tennis (@umichtennis) May 13, 2018

Michigan will play the UCLA Bruins (2nd ranked) who advanced with 4-0 wins over Idaho and San Diego (39th ranked). After the first 2 courts split, Max Cressy and Bryce Pereira clinched the doubles point over San Diego’s David Norfeldt and Alexandros Araouzos by a score of 6-3.

Marty Redlicki (1st ranked) was first off the court in singles with a 6-1, 6-4 triumph over August Holmgren on the top court. Keegan Smith then defeated Nico Borter 6-4, 6-0 to push the score to 3-0. Cressy then clinched the win over Norfeldt with a 6-3, 6-3 win.

Cressy with the clincher! The Bruins are on to the #NCAATennis Round of 16.#GoBruins pic.twitter.com/A61ABY3i9o — UCLA Men’s Tennis (@uclatennis) May 13, 2018

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