The Santa Barbara Tennis Patrons hosted the annual Santa Barbara City Tennis Championship over the past two weekends at Westmont and the Knowlwood Tennis Club.
The tournament featured multiple divisions with tennis players from the local community, including student-athletes from UCSB, Westmont and Santa Barbara City College. Competitors played for a prize pool with a total of $5,000.
Local pro and Westmont men’s tennis assistant coach Matija Pecotic captured the Men’s Open Singles championship with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over UCSB freshman Vicente Freda.
Meanwhile, Gaucho redshirt sophomore Caroline Beard pulled out a back-and-forth win over teammate and UCSB senior Katarina Vayser in the Women’s Singles title matchup, 2-6, 6-3, 10-3.
In the Men’s 4.0 Singles bracket, Evygeny Vagin of Santa Clara took down Santa Barbara’s Jeremy Sturz for the championship, 6-1, 6-0.
Eddie Lazarus earned the Men’s 40 and Over Singles division title by taking down Wes Barber in a tight matchup, 7-6, 2-6, 10-5.
As for doubles action, Freda paired up with Gaucho junior Oskar Grgzegorzewski and won the Men’s Open Doubles championship with a 7-6, 6-4 win over former Westmont tennis players and current Westmont tennis coaches Ethan Ha and Logan Thompson.
In the Mixed Open Doubles championship, Beard and Simon Frary picked up the hardware by defeating Sabrina Gutierrez and Ha, 6-2, 6-4.
