TUCSON, Ariz. – The Gonzaga men's tennis team competed this afternoon in the second day of the Wildcat Invite, producing a 2-1 record in doubles competition and a 2-4 record in singles matches.

All three doubles matches went down to the wire, with Gonzaga earning a pair of wins via tiebreaker. Jay Fairclough/Kai-Luca Ampaw outlasted Grand Canyon's Paolo Rosati/Jonathan De Silva 7-6 (0-4) and Gus Krauel/Tom Dunlop defeated New Mexico State's Ricardo Mercado/Henrik Lynum 7-6 (0-5), while Northern Arizona's Dani Torres/Jakub Pracher beat Giovanni Branchetti/Fabio Stapper 6-4.

Many of the singles matches were also hard-fought, with one of the losses including three sets and a tiebreaker. The two victories were Dunlop beating NMSU's Luc Fe D'Ostiani 6-3, 6-4 and Fairclough outlasting NMSU's Roko Stipetic 7-5, 7-5.

In the day's tightest singles match — and a battle of given names — NAU's Kai Mills survived against Kai-Luca Ampaw 6-7 (6-0), 7-6 (0-1), 7-5. Branchetti lost to Arizona's Filip Gustafsson 6-3, 6-0, Krauel was defeated 6-4, 6-2 by San Diego State's Paul Janson, and Stapper was stopped by UNLV's Illia Maksymchuk 6-3, 7-5.

Up next: Competition concludes tomorrow at the three-day Wildcat Invite.

Singles:

1. Branchetti (1-1 at the invite) will face NMSU's Tobias Wallin at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday.
2. Dunlop (1-1) plays NAU's Semen Aginskiy at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday
3. Krauel (0-2) competes against NMSU's Ricardo Mercado at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday.
4. Fairclough (1-1) will play NMSU's Patrick Lohmann at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday.
5. Stapper (1-1) faces NAU's Takumi Katsuda at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday.
6. Ampaw (1-1) faces off against GCU's Paolo Rosati at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Doubles:

1. Fairclough/Ampaw (2-0 at the invite) play Arizona's Santi Padilla-Cote/Matthias Kask on Sunday 8 a.m.
2. Krauel/Dunlop (1-1) will compete against NAU's Noa Tcherniack/Aginskiy on Sunday at 8 a.m.
3. Branchetti/Stapper (1-1) will not have a match on Sunday after SDSU's Liam Spiers/Marc Kleber withdrew.

Results:
Singles:

1. Filip Gustafsson (UA) def. Giovanni Branchetti 6-3, 6-0
2. Tom Dunlop def. Luc Fe D'Ostiani (NMSU) 6-3, 6-4
3. Paul Janson (SDSU) def. Gus Krauel 6-4, 6-2
4. Jay Fairclough def. Roko Stipetic (NMSU) 7-5, 7-5
5. Illia Maksymchuk (UNLV) def. Fabio Stapper 6-3, 7-5
6. Kai Mills (NAU) def. Kai-Luca Ampaw 6-7 (6-0), 7-6 (0-1), 7-5

Doubles:

1. Jay Fairclough/Kai-Luca Ampaw def. Paolo Rosati/Jonathan De Silva (GCU) 7-6 (0-4)
2. Gus Krauel/Tom Dunlop def. Ricardo Mercado/Henrik Lynum (NMSU) 7-6 (0-5)
3. Dani Torres/Jakub Pracher (NAU) def. Giovanni Branchetti/Fabio Stapper 6-4