MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The sixth-seeded UTSA men’s tennis team (12-11) closed out the 2025 season on Friday at the Leftwich Family Tennis Center, as a late-match rally came up just short against No. 3 seed (No. 57 national) Florida Atlantic (11-8). Though the Roadrunners remained within striking distance across singles play, the Owls held off UTSA’s advance to edge out the 4-2 final in the American Athletic Conference Championships Quarterfinal.
The Roadrunners started with some work to do, after the Owls earned a pair of quick doubles wins on courts one and three to go ahead 1-0 into singles play. Though UTSA fell behind on four singles courts, the performances on the top two courts from seniors Tiago Torres and Danijal Muminovic signaled the Roadrunners weren’t to be counted out. With a fourth-court win in straight sets for the first singles point, the Owls extended their lead. However, Muminovic wrapped his 6-3, 6-2 defeat of Mark Havlicek just minutes later to cut the deficit to 2-1. A tiebreaker win in the second set on court six again extended FAU to two points, but this time it was 105th-ranked Torres to cut back, besting 109th-ranked John Bernard, 7-5, 6-4. However, Simon Myslivec fended off Ben Chetewy Ungar’s push for a third-set showdown, claiming the 12-10 tiebreaker that wrapped the 6-4, 7-6 win and clinched the 4-2 FAU match. Another point was still in play as Oskar Grzegorzewski rallied from a first-set 6-3 loss to produce his own 6-3 win in the second – the pair were tied at 3-3 at the clinch.
The Roadrunners won five of their final six matches and earned the fifth consecutive 10-win season while playing in the first season under Sasha Gozun. UTSA advanced in the conference tournament for the first time since joining The American and the first time since 2023.
AAC Quarterfinal Round Results
Doubles
1 Jiri Jenicek/Simon Myslivec (FAU) def. Ben Chetewy Ungar/Oskar Grzegorzewski: 6-0
2 Mark Havlicek/Marek Pazdera (FAU) vs.Tiago Torres/Enzo Vargas: 4-3 (UF)
3 John Bernard and Lucca Pignaton (FAU) def. Miguel Alonso/Danijal Muminovic: 6-3
Order of Finish: 1, 3
Singles
1 #105 Tiago Torres def. #109 John Bernard (FAU): 7-5, 6-4
2 Danijal Muminovic def. Mark Havlicek (FAU): 6-3, 6-2
3 Jiri Jenicek (FAU) vs. Oskar Grzegorzewski: 6-3, 3-6, 3-3 (UF)
4 Segundo Goity Zapico (FAU) def. Enzo Vargas: 6-4, 6-2
5 Simon Myslivec (FAU) def. Ben Chetewy Ungar: 6-4, 7-6 (10)
6 Marek Pazdera (FAU) def. Miguel Alonso: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
Order of finish: 4, 2, 6, 1, 5
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