The higher seeds defended their ranking on Sunday in the NCAA Men’s Quarterfinals. That is not to say the matches were a blow out as 3 of them went the distance. We’ve got you covered with all the details below.

In the 10 A.M. match on the Leighton Family Courts, two familiar Pac-12 foes faced off for the 4th time this year in the UCLA Bruins (2nd ranked) and the USC Trojans (10th ranked). The Bruins had won the previous three meetings on the season but this match was extremely close until the very end.

The Bruins won the doubles point with victories on courts 1 and 2. Martin Redlicki and Evan Zhu (29th ranked) upset Brandon Holt and Riley Smith (10th ranked) 6-3 and then moments later Austin Rapp and Keegan Smith (16th ranked) upset Jack Jaede and Laurens Verboven (9th ranked) by the same score to give UCLA the 1-0 advantage.

Keegan Smith (56th ranked) won his 18th match in a row by defeating Jaede 7-5, 6-3 on court 3 to put UCLA up 2-0. Cukierman (74th ranked) then got the Trojans on the board with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Evan Zhu (81st ranked) on court 2. Riley Smith then evened the match via a 6-2, 7-5 defeat of Connor Hance on court 6. USC then captured the lead for the first time on the day after Verboven took down Logan Staggs 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 on court 4. However, Maxime Cressy would stop the Trojan momentum with a 6-3, 7-6(2) triumph over Thibault Forget on court 5. With all eyes on court 1, Redlicki (1st ranked) defeated Holt (11th ranked) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to send his team to the semifinals.

UCLA will face Ohio State (3rd ranked) in the semifinals on Monday who took out Mississippi State (6th ranked) 4-3 in the quarterfinals. After the teams split courts 2 and 3, the Bulldog’s top-ranked team of Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic clinched the doubles point with a 6-4 victory over Martin Joyce and JJ Wolf.

@HailStateMT takes 2 dubs with a 63 win. Comes down to 1, where MSU just broke for a 54 lead pic.twitter.com/45fu1cRz8w — Cracked Racquets (@CrackedRacquets) May 20, 2018

Trevor Foshey stayed hot in singles play and quickly dismissed Hunter Tubert 6-2, 6-3 on court 6 to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 advantage. Ohio State would then even the match with Joyce (112th ranked) taking out Florian Broska 7-5, 6-1 on court 5 and John McNally (92nd ranked) defeating Rakic (84th ranked) 6-4, 6-3 on court 3. Gio Oradini (23rd ranked) regained the lead for the Bulldogs via a 6-4, 6-3 defeat of Wolf (41st ranked).

However, Ohio State’s Kyle Seelig (96th ranked) quickly tied the match back up at 3-3 by beating Niclas Braun 6-1, 7-6 on court 4. With a match between two top-10 players to decide the match, the Buckeye’s Mikael Torpegaard (6th ranked) stepped up and defeated Borges (2nd ranked) 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 to set up a date with UCLA in the semifinals.

Buckeyes are off to the semis!!! pic.twitter.com/ef8tZvdyMT — Ohio State M Tennis (@OhioState_MTEN) May 20, 2018

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons (1st ranked) cruised to yet another dominant victory by taking down Illinois (8th ranked) 4-0 in the quarterfinals. The Deacs clinched the doubles point after Borna Gojo and Skander Mansouri (21st ranked) defeated Alex Brown and Caleb Chakravarthi 6-3 on court 1.

After Dempster and Seraphim pick up a 6-3 win at 3, Mansouri and Gojo clinch with a 6-3 win at 1! #Deacs lead 1-0 headed to singles. #GoDeacs #NCAA pic.twitter.com/GkE4fpr7P5 — Wake Men’s Tennis (@WakeMTennis) May 20, 2018

Mansouri then defeated Aron Hiltzik 6-4, 6-3 on court 3 to give his squad a 2-0 lead. Bar Botzer kept up his spectacular singles play and made the score 3-0 with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Aleks Kovacevic on court 4. Christian Seraphim then sealed the 4-0 win after he defeated Chakravarthi 6-4, 7-5 on court 6.

Here’s a look at the point that sent the Deacs to the semifinal! pic.twitter.com/hr5mNUr5R7 — Wake Men’s Tennis (@WakeMTennis) May 20, 2018

Wake will play the Texas A&M Aggies (5th ranked) who took down their SEC rival Florida (13th ranked) 4-3. The Aggies clinched the doubles point with Jordi Arconada and Carlos Aguilar (3rd ranked) defeating Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen (5th ranked) by a score of 7-5 on court 1.

Doubles point to @AggieMTEN after they get a 75 win at 1 dubs. Same question as this morning: Which match should I watch?!?! pic.twitter.com/vwxjscoCZg — Cracked Racquets (@CrackedRacquets) May 20, 2018

Texas A&M then raced out to a 3-0 lead with Aguilar leading the charge. He defeated Chase Perez-Blanco 6-2, 6-3 on court 5. Arconada (48th ranked) then beat Perez (13th ranked) again via a 6-3, 6-4 decision on court 3. However, the Gators would not go down easily and they reeled off 3 straight wins to even the match at 3-3. Senior captain McClain Kessler got the Gators on the board after he defeated AJ Catanzariti 7-5, 6-2 on court 6. Oliver Crawford (49th ranked) then upset Patrick Kypson (5th ranked) 6-4, 7-6 in a battle of freshmen on court 1. Andy Andrade then evened the match by taking down Valentin Vacherot (72nd ranked) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. The Gators could not get the 4th point as Senior Arthur Rinderknech (13th ranked) eventually saved the day for the Aggies as he came back to defeat Ingildsen (28th ranked) 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 to seal the 4-3 victory.

Arthur breaks to secure a 57 75 62 victory. He sends @AggieMTEN to the NCAA Men’s Semifinals!!!! pic.twitter.com/YEEXvaJc6a — Cracked Racquets (@CrackedRacquets) May 20, 2018

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