STOCKTON, Calif. - The Pacific men's tennis team (1-6) will look get to winning ways with weekend matches against UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly.

Match Info:

Date: Saturday, February 22
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Opponent: UC Santa Barbara
Location: Santa Barbara, Calif.
Venue: UCSB Tennis Courts

Date: Sunday, February 23
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Opponent: Cal Poly
Location: San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Venue: Mustang Tennis Complex

Last Time Out

• Pacific dropped both hard-fought matches to Boise State and UC Irvine last weekend at home.
• The Tigers dropped the doubles point despite Akram El Sallaly and Tadiwa Chinamo being knotted at five with Boise State's Blake Bayldon and Simon Arca Costas. Pacific fought hard in doubles competition to open the morning, but dropped the point despite John Horoz Garner and Nathan Hampton winning 6-4 on three
• Pacific and UC Irvine split singles play 3-3 with El Sallaly, Coby McCaig and Toi Kobayashi picking up wins for the Tigers.

What You Should Know:

• Pacific competed in six fall tournaments last semester, including the Duck Invitational to close out the fall where sophomore Philip Hjorth captured the Singles A title. 
• Hjorth was named to this season's Preseason All-WCC team after an impressive fall campaign that included the singles title in Eugene and a win over then-No. 18 Alastair Gray of TCU at Battle in the Bay. 
• Hjorth earned an ITA Singles ranking coming into the spring season, checking in at No. 104. It's the highest singles ranking for the program since Daniel Alamehat 103 in 2016, alongside that year's WCC Player of the Year in No. 55 Sem Verbeek. 
• Hjorth is one of three Tigers returning from an All-WCC corps last season, joining Tadiwa Chinamo and Ross Watson. All three were named WCC Singles honorable mention in 2019.

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