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No. 11 Jovanovic, Sanchez Martinez Secure Second Round At NCAAs
May 21, 2024 | Men's Tennis
STILLWATER, Okla., - Mississippi State's 11th-ranked doubles duo of Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez are moving on to the second round of the NCAA Individual Championships.
Jovanovic and Sanchez Martinez downed Harvard's 19th-ranked tandem of Daniel Milavsky and Cooper Williams in a pair of tiebreakers 7-6(2), 7-6(4) on Tuesday to advance to the next round at the Greenwood Tennis Center on the campus of Oklahoma State.
The sophomore Bulldog pairing will take the court against TCU's ninth-ranked duo of Sebastian Gorzny and Pedro Vives on Wednesday at 2 p.m.
Jovanovic and Sanchez Martinez improved to 23-10 together on the year, which ties Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic's mark in 2019 for the seventh-most wins by a doubles tandem in a single season at MSU. One more victory would match Kristian Broems and Per Nilsson (1994) and Matthieu Ballay and Mattias Karlsson (1996) for the sixth-most doubles wins in school history.
Tuesday's win over Milavsky and Williams marked the 11th win over a ranked opponent this year for Jovanovic and Sanchez Martinez and their fifth over a top 20 foe.
Gorzny and Vives qualified for the second round with their 6-2, 7-6(3) triumph against Memphis' 29th-ranked Pablo Alemany and Charlie Barry on Tuesday evening. Jovanovic faced off against the Horned Frog duo during the Sweet 16 last season alongside then partner Ewen Lumsden in Fort Worth, Texas.
NCAA Individual ChampionshipsGreenwood Tennis Center | Stillwater, Okla.
May 21, 2024
Doubles First Round
No. 11 Petar Jovanovic/Benito Sanchez Martinez (MSU) def. No. 19 Daniel Milavsky/Cooper Williams (Harvard) 7-6(2), 7-6(4)
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