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UNLV men’s tennis team excels on first day of ITA Mountain Region Championships

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.