Peniston Advances to ITA Ohio Valley Semifinals

Saturday, October 22

Knoxville, TN

All Day

University of Memphis

ITA Ohio Valley Regional

Photo by: Joe Murphy

Oct 23, 2016 | Men's Tennis

Tiger to face Kentucky opponent in the semifinals, Sunday

By: Tammy DeGroff

MEMPHIS – Junior men's tennis player Ryan Peniston advanced to the ITA Ohio Valley Regional semifinals on Saturday with a pair of singles victories.

To start the day, Peniston and teammate Felix Rauch were to have played in the doubles quarterfinals, but were forced to default. That extra time may have benefited Peniston later in the day. But first, the junior defeated Kentucky's Enzo Wallart, 6-2, 6-4, to advance to the quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals, Peniston drew three-seeded David Biosca of East Tennessee State. Biosca won the first set 6-4, then Peniston came back and won the second and third sets, 6-3, 6-4.

Two other Tigers had their singles runs ended in the Round of 16. Kai Lemke fell 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 to number 17 ranked Baker Newman of Vanderbilt while Jan Pallares also fell in three sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, to number 25 seeded Parker Wynn of Louisville.

Peniston will face Kentucky's Beck Pennington, Sunday, at 11 a.m. (ET).

ITA OHIO VALLEY REGIONAL CHMPIONSHIP

DOUBLES
Quarterfinal
[1] Valero/Schipanski (Tennessee) def. [8] Watson/Lemke (Memphis) 8-5
[3] Pennington/Wallart (Kentucky) def. [10] Stodder/Jones (Tennessee) 8-4
[4] Klinger/Rowe (Vanderbilt) def. Virag/Clemens (NKU) 8-7
Shabat/Gerstein def. [15] Peniston/Rauch by default

SINGLES
Round of 16
[1] Daniel Valent (Vanderbilt) def. [15] Nils Ellefsen (Kentucky) 6-1, 5-7, 6-1
[3] David Biosca (ETSU) def. [20] Raheel Manji (Indiana) 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4
[28] Beck Pennington (Kentucky) def. [2] Luis Valero (Tennessee) 6-3, 6-4
[5} Ryan Peniston (Memphis) def. [22] Enzo Wallart (Kentucky) 6-2, 6-4
[17] Baker Newman (Vanderbilt) def. [8] Kai Lemke (Memphis) 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
[9] Timo Stodder (Tennessee) def. Luis Morillo (MTSU) 7-6 (7-5), 6-1
[13] Trey Yates (Kentucky) def. Luca Wiedenmann (Tennessee) 6-3, 6-3
[25] Parker Wynn (Louisville) def. [30] Jan Pallares (Memphis) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4

Quarterfinals
[1] Daniel Valent (Vanderbilt) def. [17] Baker Newman (Vanderbilt) 6-3, 7-6 (7-5)
[13] Trey Yates (Kentucky) def. [9] Timo Stodder (Tennessee) 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
[28] Beck Pennington (Kentucky) def. [25] Parket Wynn (Louisville) 6-1, 6-3
[5] Peniston (Memphis) def. [3] Biosca, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

SINGLES
Consolation
Round of 32
[6] Cameron Klinger (Vanderbilt) def. Ari Gerstein (Butler) 4-6, 6-2, 10-3
[14] Antonio Cembellin (Indiana) def. Alex Ross (Vanderbilt) 6-3, 6-2
[23] Panu Virtanen (Vanderbilt) def. [31] George Hedley (Louisville) 2-6, 6-0, 10-3
[24] Bennet Crane (Indiana) def. Marcos Bernades (Tennessee Tech) 7-5, 7-6 (7-5)
Matt Bishop (Xavier) def. Lope Adelakun (Butler) 6-3, 6-2
Oliver Sec (Indiana) def. Sean Donohue (Louisville) 6-3, 5-7, 12-10
Ramon Van Flymen (EKU) def. Pat Downs (Ball State) 6-1, 7-6 (7-5)
Jack Schipanski (Tennessee) def. Adrian Mag (Butler) 7-5, 6-2
Tate Allwardt (Vanderbilt) def. Michael Birnbaum (UTC) 6-1, 6-1
Jack Dykema (Xavier) def. Steven Christie (IUPUI) 5-7, 6-2, 12-10
Ciro Lampasses (Louisville) def. Brad Luetschwager (IUPUI) 6-4, 6-3
Matthew Mccoy (Bloomington) def. Spencer Lang (Butler) 6-2,6-4
Vikran Chari (Vanderbilt) def. Sunay Bhat (Tennessee) 6-4, 6-4
Gabe Arajua (Xavier) def. David Gonzalez (ETSU) 6-3,6-2
Max Rauch (MTSU) def. Zach Berry (Dayton) 6-4, 6

Round of 16
[6] Cameron Klinger (Vanderbilt) def. [24] Bennett Crane (Indiana) 6-2, 6-3
[14] Antonio Cembellin (Indiana) def. Ramon Van Flymen (EKU) by forfeit
[23] Panu Virtanen (Vanderbilt) def. Matt Bishop (Xavier) 2-6, 6-3, 13-11
Gabe Arajua (Xavier) def. Max Rauch (MTSU) 6-2, 6-7 (2-7), 10-7
Tate Allwardt (Vanderbilt) def. Jack Schipanski (Tennessee) by forfeit
Matthew Mccoy (Bloomington) def. Vikram Chari (Vanderbilt) 6-2, 6-1

Additional
Ciro Lampasas (Louisville) def. [2] Luis Valero (Tennessee) 6-3, 5-7, 11-9