Locals advance at Ojai

OJAI — Corona del Mar High’s doubles team of Dustin Hladek and Fabian Matthews, the No. 1 seed, won each of its first two matches Thursday to advance to the Sweet 16 of the 107th Ojai Invitational.

Hladek and Matthews defeated Northwood’s Nicholas Nguyen and Brett Randolph, 6-3, 6-0, in the first round. In the second round, the duo beat Nordhoff’s Ian Kretzers and Casey Robbins, 6-2, 6-0, to qualify for today’s 9 a.m. match against San Marino’s Nick Chang and Albert Chu.

“This is an exciting event, because the team that Hladek and Matthews beat in CIF last year is the No. 2 seed and the tournament’s defending champion,” said CdM Coach Tim Mang, referring to Billy Grokenberger and James Ho of Santa Barbara.

In the CIF division singles play, CdM’s Chris Damion beat Steven Henderson of Poway, 7-5, 6-3, in the opening round, but was eliminated when he lost to No. 4 Andre Dome of Arroyo Grande, 6-3, 6-0, in the second round.

Estancia’ s Bradley Fisher won his first match against Bobby Trentacosta of Cathedral Catholic, 6-3, 6-2, before falling to Kevin Cheng of Dos Pueblos, 6-2, 6-2.

Costa Mesa High’s Victor Tran lost his opening match of the tournament to Simon Wu of Thacher, 6-0, 6-3. CdM resident Omeed Ghassemi, who attends Mater Dei, lost his first match to Walker Kehrer of Brentwood, 6-0, 6-1.

In the girls’ 16 singles draw, Corona del Mar resident Rachel Cox lost to No. 8-seeded Krystal Langley of Manhattan Beach in the Round of 16, 6-2, 6-1.

In community college women’s single division, Orange Coast College’s Evelyn Wallace won twice to advance to today’s third round.

OCC’s Jaleh Mazaheri had a bye in the first round and won in the second to advance.

In doubles, two OCC teams (Mazaheri-Heather Morton and Wallace-Mahtab Davatolhagh) advanced after winning in the second round. In community college men’s singles, OCC’s Jon Kroopf advanced, as did doubles teams Andy Ong and Giovanni Villacana and Patrick Lam and Charlie Nguyen.