UNLV had four singles entries and three doubles teams survive the opening day of the ITA Mountain Region Championships on Wednesday at Darling Tennis Center.
No. 3 seed Jakob Amilon, No. 4 seed Alexandr Cozbinov and No. 9 seed Ruben Alberts each opened with a bye and then notched a victory, and Courtney Lock posted two straight-set wins.
Amilon, ranked No. 124, beat Brigham Young’s Derek Vincent 6-4, 6-2. Alberts defeated Air Force’s Isaac Perez 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Cozbinov dominated Idaho’s Luca Coutinho 6-1, 6-0. And Lock downed Northern Colorado’s Cassell King 6-1, 6-0 and Northern Arizona’s Felix Schumann 6-1, 7-5.