San Diego Tennis Team Wins In Florida

CARLSBAD, CA – The San Diego Aviators won all five sets, including two in tiebreakers, as they concluded their four-day, four-match season-opening road trip with a 25-15 victory over the Orlando Storm Wednesday evening in a World TeamTennis match at Lake Nona, Florida.

Under WTT rules, if a set is tied, 4-4, it is decided by a nine-point tiebreaker. In the match's second set, the Aviators women's doubles team of Christina McHale and Anna-Lena Groenefeld needed a tiebreaker to complete a 5-4 victory over 2017 U.S. Open singles finalist Madison Keys and Darija Jurak.

In the final set, men's singles, Ryan Harrison won in a tiebreaker to complete a 5-4 victory over Feliciano Lopez at the U.S. Tennis Association National Campus.

Groenefeld and Jonny O'Mara defeated Jurak and Ken Skupski, 5-2, in the match's opening set, mixed doubles.

Harrison and O'Mara defeated Lopez and Skupski, 5-2, in the third set, men's doubles.

McHale defeated Keys, 5-3, in women's singles.

The match was supposed to be played outdoors, but moved indoors because of rain.

The Aviators went 3-1 on the road trip. They are scheduled to play their home opener Friday against the Las Vegas Rollers at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad.

– City News Service