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10/26/2026 5:52:00 PM | Men's Tennis
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. – Southern Miss Men's Tennis wrapped up the weekend at the Country Club of Birmingham Invitational, competing in singles and doubles across the Bulldogs and Red draws/brackets. Jay Temming captured the Bulldogs singles championship, winning four matches over the three-day event.
Temming opened Friday with straight-set victories over Tennessee Tech's Kai Inoue, 6-4, 6-2, and Louisiana's Gianluca Filoramo, 6-3, 6-3. He advanced with a three-set win over South Alabama's Deren Yigin on Saturday, then rallied past Charleston's Aryan Karnani, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3, in Sunday's championship match.
Rasmus Becker also competed in the Bulldogs singles draw. After an opening loss to Karnani on Friday, Becker earned a 6-3, 6-3 win over South Alabama's Jonni Kneer. He fell to Jacksonville State's Joao Barreto on Saturday in a match tiebreak.
In the Red singles draw, Matei Varbanciu began Friday with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 win over Kennesaw State's Juan Parrilla. He dropped his next match to Stetson's Christian Kuehne, then returned Saturday with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over North Alabama's Adrian Clement before falling to Jacksonville State's Yago Castellanos.
Ritabrata Sarkar opened with a three-set loss to Tennessee Tech's Murilo Burckardt on Friday. He bounced back Saturday, defeating Samford's Alex Sala Pages in a match tiebreak, before closing his singles play Sunday with a match-tiebreak loss to Tennessee Tech's Ricard Yepez.
Southern Miss also competed in both the Red and Bulldogs doubles draws. In the Red draw, Sarkar and Becker opened Saturday with a 6-4 win over Kennesaw State, then fell to Louisiana. They lost their Sunday match to South Alabama, 4-6. Temming and Varbanciu dropped their first two Bulldogs draw matches Saturday, falling to Samford and North Alabama.
Up Next
Southern Miss will head to Pensacola, Fla. to compete in the University of West Florida Fall Fling Invitational Oct. 30-31.
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