Arizona men's tennis' NCAA Tournament run ends in Elite Eight

Arizona punched its ticket to the quarterfinals for the first time in program history after a string of home tournament wins over NAU 4-0, Clemson 4-2 and Oklahoma 4-3. 

But on the road in Athens, Georgia, the Cats lost 4-1, closing out the season with a 24-5 record. 

Arizona's doubles duos of Filip Gustafsson and Glib Sekachov, and Jay Friend and Alexander Rozin fell 6-2 and 6-0, respectively. 

Rozin locked in the Cats' only victory in singles, defeating Luca Pow 6-3, 7-5. 

Gustafsson fell to Wake Forest's Mees Rottgering 6-2, 6-1; Sekachov lost 6-4, 6-2 to Aryan Shah; while Arizona's Alejandro Arcila lost in three sets to Joaquin Guilleme 0-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Friend's singles battle vs. DK Suresh Ekambaram went unfinished, as did Zoran Ludoski's. Friend split the opening two sets and led 5-3 in the third before the match was halted. Ludoski had also forced a third set after winning a second-set tiebreak.

Wake Forest entered Thursday's quarterfinal riding an eight-match winning streak after capturing the ACC Tournament title.

Wake Forest, which took home the 2025 NCAA title, moves on to face Virginia in the semifinals Saturday, while TCU and Texas also vie for a spot in the championship round.