Irvine Tennis Team Beats Pennsylvania

The 11th-ranked UC Irvine men’s tennis team defeated Pennsylvania, 7-2, in nonconference action on Monday at UCI.

The Anteaters (11-5) won four singles matches and swept in doubles. Bruce Man Son Hing, Irvine’s No. 1 player, defeated John Sobel, 6-3, 6-2. Brad Ackerman beat Farley Weiss, 6-1, 6-2, Ken Derr defeated Glenn Ciotti, 6-1, 6-2, and Neil Amor beat Greg Band, 6-4, 6-0.

In doubles, Man Son Hing and Derr defeated Paul Settles and Ciotti, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, Amor and Rob Hinkel beat Sobel and Joel Breitkopf, 6-1, 6-3, and James Myers and Art Hernandez defeated Band and Steve Hazan, 6-3, 6-1.