ABILENE – Abilene Christian junior
Hans Hach continues to dominate the doubles landscape in collegiate tennis after capturing his third title of the fall season Sunday at the Boise State Appleton Classic.
Hach won this weekend's championship with sophomore
Guilherme Gesser after winning his first two alongside Borja Cortés at New Mexico State and ITA Regionals. Gesser and Hach last played together early in the spring, where they went 5-1 at the No. 1 position. Their lone defeat came against Colin Hoover and John Lewis of No. 15 Texas A&M.
Hach and Gesser entered the Boise State bracket as the No. 5 seed, and after earning a first-round bye, defeated pairings from Montana State (8-6), Oregon (8-2), Portland (8-6) and Idaho State (8-6). The Portland duo of Michel Hu Kwo and Alex Ferrero, which lost to the Wildcats in the semifinals, were the No. 1 seeds, while the Bengal tandem of Nate Gross and Charles Norman were seeded seventh.
Hach nearly duplicated a sweep of the singles and doubles titles, but dropped a 6-0, 6-4 decision to eighth-seeded Alvaro Nazal of Gonzaga in the finals. Nazal recently was named September's West Coast Conference Player of the Month after winning a tournament hosted by Eastern Washington.
If Hach had prevailed, it would have been his third consecutive fall singles title.
Elsewhere in the Boise State singles bracket, ACU senior
Alfredo Desiati reached the quarterfinals behind a pair of straight-set wins, while Gesser and freshman
Jason Proctor each won once. Desiati and Proctor also played well together in doubles in reaching the finals of the Blue Flight, where they fell, 8-3, to the Idaho Vandal combo of Jose Bendeck and Cesar Torres.
Highlighting the women's tennis team's play at the Rice Invitational was senior
Laura Mongin, who won the flight four singles titles and placed third in flight two doubles with freshman
Kaysie Hermsdorf.
Mongin won all her singles matches in straight sets, ending with a 6-2, 6-1 thrashing of Giada D'Ortona of Texas-Arlington in the finals. She also beat Texas State Bobcats Melissa Hadad, in the first round, 6-2, 6-0, and Mariana Perez, 6-3, 6-0, in the semifinals.
The Wildcats also received strong efforts from their flight five singles players Hermsdorf,
Jamie Lee Denton and
Emily Conrad. Hermsdorf, a freshman, finished second after falling 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 to Arlington's Brooke Dennis in the finals, while Denton and Conrad placed third and fifth, respectively.
Kaysie's older sister, Micah, and her partner
Hannah Kelley went 2-1 to place fifth in flight one doubles. The all-America duo lost its first match, 8-1, to Rice's 33rd-ranked team Katie Gater and Liat Zimmerman, but rebounded in the back draw, where they beat teams from LSU and Texas State.
ACU's next competition is the
ITA/USTA National Small College Championships, which runs from Oct. 11 to 14 at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center in Mobile, Ala. Representing the Wildcats there will be regional singles and doubles champions Hach, Cortés,
Julia Mongin and
Brittney Reed. Hach is seeded second in both singles and doubles (with Cortés), while Mongin and Reed are the fourth-seeded doubles team. Mongin also is seeded second in singles.
