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Pepperdine defeated the Saint Mary’s Gaels 4-1 at Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon.
The Waves’ fifth win in the last six duals brings them to 8-8 on the season and 2-1 in the West Coast Conference.
Pepperdine started off the dual by battling hard to win the doubles point. Freshmen Corrado Summaria and Enrique Luque Rico dominated their match, winning three sets in a row to take a 4-1 lead and finishing with a 6-2 win.
Redshirt senior Matias Sborowitz and junior Pawel Jankowiak lost the first three sets of their doubles match but battled back to a 4-5 deficit before junior Adrian Oetzbach and freshman Tim Zeitvogel secured the doubles point.