PHILADELPHIA – The Monmouth University men's tennis team had seven different student-athletes in singles and three doubles teams compete at the ITA Northeast Regional Championships over the last four days at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Senior Niels Van Noord became the second Hawk in program history to reach the Round of 16, joining Srdjan Jakovljevic, who completed the feat in 2018. Lucca Silva also played well to advance to the Round of 32.  

MATCH NOTES & QUOTES 
"We had some great individual results at the ITA Regional Tournament, especially with Niels making it to the Round of 16 and Lucca advancing to the final 32. Now we will prepare for our final event of the fall at Navy in November."
- Head Coach Chris Leicht

ITA Northeast Regional 
10/14-17/2021 at Philadelphia, PA 

Singles Competition
Jan Godfrey Seno (St. Francis NY) def. Gabriel Busato (Monmouth) 7-6 (3), 6-0
David Gorshein (Army) def. Trent Massam (Monmouth) 6-4, 3-6, 10-6
Gieuseppe De Camelis (St. Johns) def. Charlie Penman (Monmouth) 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 
Carl Gustavson (St. Johns) def. Victor Castro (Monmouth) 6-0, 6-4 
Hikaru Takeda (Dartmouth) def. Dmitry Bezborodov (Monmouth) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 
Lucca Silva (Monmouth) def. Adbullah Fouad (NJIT) 6-3, 6-3 
Lucca Silva (Monmouth) def. Vladislav Melnic (Cornell) 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 
Niels Van Noord (Monmouth) def. Aidan Reilly (Yale) 6-3, 6-1
Ben Gollin (Columbia) def. Lucca Silva (Monmouth) 7-6 (2), 6-2 
Niels Van Noord (Monmouth) def. Kaya Gore (Fairfield) 6-4, 6-3 
Max Westphal (Columbia) def. Niels Van Noord (Monmouth) 6-3, 6-1

Doubles Competition 
Dmitry Bezborodov / Trent Massam (Monmouth) def. Ayato Arakaki / Kemal Karagozoglu (Quinnipiac) 8-4 
Aditya Gupta / Harsh Parikh (Penn) def. Niels Van Noord / Charlie Penman (Monmouth) 8-6
Ching Lam / Chun Lam (Brown) def. Victor Castro / Lucca Silva (Monmouth) 8-5
Dmitry Bezborodov / Trent Massam (Monmouth) def. Jonathan Olive-Blanco / Keean Shah (Fairfield) 8-5  Simon Wibler / Cheng Tang (Buffalo) def. Dmitry Bezborodov / Trent Massam (Monmouth) 8-2 

UP NEXT 
The Hawks will wrap up their fall slate at the Navy Golf Invite in Annapolis, MD beginning on November 12.