DAVIS, Calif. – Mads Engsted won two titles and California won four total as the Aggie Invitational came to a close on Sunday at UC Davis.
Engsted, a Golden Bear junior, captured the flight A singles championship, Engsted and J.T. Nishimura won the doubles flight A consolation crown, Wyatt Houghton won the flight B singles consolation final, and the pair of Nikhil Jayashankar and Jordan Smith netted the flight B doubles title at the Mayra Welch Tennis Center.
The fourth seed, Engsted bested Nevada's Ryan Andrada, 6-0, 6-2, in the singles flight A final after defeating Sacramento State's Sean Kolar in the semifinal. The Bear led, 6-3, 2-0, when Kolar retired with an injury. In the singles flight A consolation semifinal round, top-seeded Cal junior Hasier Pastor suffered an upset loss to Pacific's Miguel Diaz, 5-7, 6-4, 1-0(9).
Houghton started Sunday with a 7-6(3), 6-2 victory over Sacramento State's Joaquin Marquez in the singles flight B consolation semis. The Cal junior topped off his day with a 7-6(2), 6-4 win over Adam Levie of the host Aggies in the championship match.
The team of Engsted and Nishimura, a freshman, justified its No. 1 seeding in the doubles flight A consolation bracket with an 8-4 result over Brett Bacharach and James Wade of UC Davis in the final. Jayashankar and Smith, another top-seeded tandem, posted an 8-4 score to beat Pacific's Diaz and Bernardo Oliveira in the doubles flight B final.
Also on Sunday, Cal freshman Billy Griffith – attempting to advance to the Tiburon Challenger singles main draw – fell to Liam Broady, 6-1, 6-3, in the second round of qualifying at the Tiburon Peninsula Club in Tiburon, California.
The Bears next compete in the Battle of the Bay in San Francisco and the UCSB Classic in Santa Barbara, California, from Friday through Sunday.
Aggie Invitational
Oct. 5, 2014, in Davis, Calif.
Mayra Welch Tennis Center
Singles Flight A
Semifinal
[4] Mads Engsted (Cal) def. Sean Kolar (Sacramento State) – 6-3, 2-0 ret. (inj.)
Final
[4] Mads Engsted (Cal) def. Ryan Andrada (Nevada) – 6-0, 6-2
Singles Flight A Consolation
Semifinal
Miguel Diaz (Pacific) def. [1] Hasier Pastor (Cal) - 5-7, 6-4, 1-0(9).
Singles Flight B Consolation
Semifinal
[1] Wyatt Houghton (Cal) def. Joaquin Marquez (Sacramento State) – 7-6(3), 6-2
Final
[1] Wyatt Houghton (Cal) def. Adam Levie (UC Davis) – 7-6(2), 6-4
Doubles Flight A Consolation
Final
[1] Mads Engsted/J.T. Nishimura (Cal) def. Brett Bacharach/James Wade (UC Davis) – 8-4.
Doubles Flight B
Final
[1] Nikhil Jayashankar/Jordan Smith (Cal) def. Miguel Diaz/Bernardo Oliveira (Pacific) – 8-4
Tiburon Challenger
Oct. 5, 2014, in Tiburon, Calif.
Tiburon Peninsula Club
Qualifying
Second Round
Liam Broady def. Billy Griffith (Cal) – 6-1, 6-3
