TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Arizona Wildcats maintained their perfect home record on Tuesday when they beat the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos by a score of 4-3.
 
Alejandro Reguant and Jonas Maier kicked off doubles play with a 6-1 win over UCSB's Krustev/Guillin pairing. The Gauchos bounced back with a doubles win of their own, making the match between Hassey/Karpovets and Moreno/Holm the deciding doubles match. Karpovets and Hassey fell behind 3-5, but the freshmen stormed back to win four straight games and earn the first point of the match for the Cats.
 
Maier got the Cats off to a strong start with his straight sets win over Anders Holm. Reguant won his first set by a score of 6-2, and then battled back after falling behind in the second set tiebreak to earn the third point of the match for Arizona. Freshman Filip Malbasic added to his team-leading 13 singles wins by defeating Victor Krustev 7-6, 6-4, which also cinched the match for the Wildcats.
 
"This was a gutsy, gritty performance from our squad," said head coach Clancy Shields. "We definitely can be sharper in areas, but winning ugly is not always a bad thing. We will need to get a little sharper these next few days and get ready for Pac-12 play coming up."
 
The Wildcats improve to 12-5 on the season, and will now face 3^rd ranked Stanford on Friday followed by 49^th ranked Cal on Sunday.
 
Results
Singles
 Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (UCSB) def. Trent Botha 6-3, 6-0
Joseph Guillin (UCSB) def. Igor Karpovets (ARIZ) 6-1, 6-3
Simon Freund (UCSB) def. Aaro Pollanen (ARIZ) 6-7, 6-4, 10-6
Jonas Maier (ARIZ) def. Anders Holm (UCSB) 6-0, 6-3
Filip Malbasic (ARIZ) def. Victor Krustev (UCSB) 7-6, 6-4
Alejandro Reguant (ARIZ) def. Ajai Shekhera (UCSB) 6-2, 7-6(5)
Order: 4,1,2,6,5,3
 
Doubles
Igor Karpovets/Carlos Hassey (ARIZ) def. Nicolas Moreno de Alboran/Anders Holm (UCSB) 7-5
Simon Freund/Joseph Rotheram (UCSB) def. Filip Malbasic/Aaro Pollanen (ARIZ) 6-1
 Alejandro Reguant/Jonas Maier (ARIZ) def. Joseph Guillin/Victor Krustev (UCSB) 6-1
Order: 3,2,1

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