ROME, Ga. – The Portland doubles team of Nikola Keremedchiev and Stefan Skobelev won their opening round match Thursday at the 2024 ITA Conference Masters Championships, hosted at the Rome Tennis Center.
Keremedchiev and Skobelev defeated Martin Garcia-Ripoll Ore and Francisco Lamas of East Tennessee State by a 6-4, 2-6, 10-8 margin in a third set super tiebreaker. The tandem advances to the Round of 16 to face the tournament's No. 2 seeded team of Peter Nad and Sebastian Dominko from Notre Dame on Friday at 9:30 a.m. (PT). The Notre Dame duo is ranked No. 46 in the latest ITA Doubles Rankings.