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USC’s Stefan Dostanic, Samuel Rubell Win ITA Southwest Regional Doubles Championship

Oct 24, 2021

MALIBU, CALIF. — Another big day in Malibu saw the Trojans maneuver into several semifinal appearances at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships. With inclement weather ahead for the area, the doubles title match was bumped up to this afternoon, and USC reigned supreme with juniors Stefan Dostanic and Samuel Rubell making it a perfect pairing in their first event together. The Trojan duo beat UCLA's Revelli/Zahraj 6-3, 6-4 in the title match today to make it a 5-0 effort at the event in claiming the doubles championship.

The No. 3 seeded pair in the doubles draw, junior Stefan Dostanic and junior transfer Samuel Rubell — teamed up for the first time — squashed their first three opponents to work their way into today's semifinals. There, the two Trojans had to square off against their own teammates in grad transfer Paul Barretto and junior Ryder Jackson. Dostanic/Rubell dispatched their fellow Trojans Barretto/Jackson — who had won four straight matches at the even in their first time playing together — with a  6-1, 6-2 decision to work into the final. Two other Trojans were in battle in the opposite semifinal with the senior-freshman tandem of Bradley Frye and Peter Makk falling  to UCLA's Revelli/Zahraj after retiring from the match  at 6-2, 2-0.

In their third match of the day, Dostanic/Rubell got straight back to business and claimed the championship with that smooth 6-3, 6-4 win over their Bruin foes. That made Dostanic/Rubell the second consecutive and seventh all-time USC pair to win the doubles crown at the ITA Southwest Regional. In the last event in 2019, USC's Brandon Holt and Riley Smith won the title in Malibu.

On the singles side of things, USC notched two quarterfinal winners to take spots in the semifinals. Those matches — and the final — will be played on Tuesday (Oct. 26) due to the weather coming through the area tomorrow. Today, doubles partners Rubell and Dostanic were both winners on the singles scene as well. Rubell upended Arizona's Herman Hoeyeraal 6-3, 7-5 to take his place in the singles semis, while Dostanic — seeded No. 3 in the draw — topped UCLA's Alexander Hoogmartens 6-4, 6-4. USC senior Frye was edged out in the quarterfinals today, taking a 6-2, 6-7 (7), 6-3 loss to Pepperdine's Pietro Fellin.

In Tuesday's singles semifinals, Rubell faces Fellin, and Dostanic faces another Wave, Andrew Rogers, in matches scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in Malibu.

USC results to date are listed below.

2021 ITA SOUTHWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Malibu, Calif.)

DOUBLES
Round of 64 - Oct. 22
[16] Barretto/Jackson (USC) def. Malbasic/Sakagawa (ARIZ) - 8-2
Devineni/Rodriguez (UCSD) vs. Holt/Weststrate (USC) - w/o
[3] Dostanic/Rubell (USC) - bye
[2] Frye/Makk (USC) - bye

Round of 32 - Oct. 22
[16] Barretto/Jackson (USC) def. Fonseca/Vardanyan (CP) - 8-5
[3] Dostanic/Rubell (USC) def. Di Giulio/Torlic (LMU) - 8-3
[2] Frye/Makk (USC) def. Middleton/Olsen (ARIZ) - 8-2

Round of 16 - Oct. 23
[16] Barretto/Jackson (USC) def. [1] #53 Coste/Roberto (UCI) - 8-2
[3] Dostanic/Rubell (USC) def. Norfeldt/Schaber (USD) - 8-7 (2)
[2] Frye/Makk (USC) def. Hadigian/Rico (PEP) - 8-2

Quarterfinals - Oct. 24
[16] Barretto/Jackson (USC) def. [5] Baird/Hoogmartens (UCLA) -  8-2
[3] Dostanic/Rubell (USC) def. Castro/Tyler (SDSU) - 8-6
[2] Frye/Makk (USC) def. Brady/Jordan  (UCSB) - 8-7(5)

Semifinals - Oct. 24
[3] Dostanic/Rubell (USC) def. [16] Barretto/Jackson (USC) - 6-1, 6-2
Revelli/Zahraj (UCLA) def. [2] Frye/Makk (USC) - 6-2, 2-0 ret. 

Championship - Oct. 24
[3] Dostanic/Rubell (USC) def. Revelli/Zahraj (UCLA) - 6-3, 6-4

SINGLES
Round of 128 - Oct. 22
Samuel Rubell (USC) def. Eric Hadigian (PEP) - 6-2, 6-2
Paul Barretto (USC) def. Wyatt Anderson (GCU) - 6-2, 6-1
[4] #107 Bradley Frye (USC) - bye
[7] #119 Lodewijk Weststrate (USC) - bye
Peter Makk (USC) def. Blaine Hovenier (UCLA) - 6-0, 6-3
[3] #68 Stefan Dostanic (USC) - bye
Ryder Jackson (USC) - bye

Round of 64 - Oct. 22
Samuel Rubell (USC) def. Kai Brady (UCSB) - 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
[6] #118 Drew Baird (UCLA) def. Paul Barretto (USC) -  6-1, 7-5
[4] #107 Bradley Frye (USC) def. Judson Blair - 6-1, 6-3
[7] #119 Lodewijk Weststrate (USC) def. Ian Esses (LMU) - 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
Peter Makk (USC) def. Victor Castro  (SDSU) - 6-2, 6-1
[3] #68 Stefan Dostanic (USC) def. William Lan (UCSD) - 6-1, 6-3
Noah Berry (CP) def. Ryder Jackson (USC) - 4-6, 6-3, 6-2

Round of 32 - Oct. 23
Samuel Rubell (USC) def. Johannes Seeman (SDSU) - 6-2,6-3
[4] #107 Bradley Frye (USC) def. Filip Malbasic (ARIZ) - 6-2, 6-2
[7] #119 Lodewijk Weststrate (USC) def. Karl Lee (UCLA) - 6-1,  4-6,  6-4
#117 Daniel De Jonge (PEP) def. Peter Makk (USC) - 6-2, 6-2
[3] #68 Stefan Dostanic (USC) def. Giacomo Revelli (UCLA) - 6-2, 6-2

Round of 16 - Oct. 23
Samuel Rubell (USC) def. [1] #32 Jonas Eriksson Ziverts (ARIZ) - 6-4, 6-4
[4] #107 Bradley Frye (USC) def. Patrick Zahraj (UCLA) - 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
Pietro Fellin (PEP) def. [7] #119 Lodewijk Weststrate (USC) - 6-4, 6-4
[3] #68 Stefan Dostanic (USC) def. Colton Smith (ARIZ) - 6-4, 6-1

Quarterfinals - Oct. 24
Samuel Rubell (USC) def. Herman Hoeyeraal (ARIZ) - 6-3, 7-5
Pietro Fellin (PEP) def. [4] #107 Bradley Frye (USC) - 6-2, 6-7 (7) ,6-3
[3] #68 Stefan Dostanic (USC) def. Alexander Hoogmartens (UCLA) - 6-4, 6-4

Semifinals - Oct. 26
Samuel Rubell (USC) vs. Pietro Fellin (PEP) - 10 a.m.
[3] #68 Stefan Dostanic (USC) vs. Andrew Rogers (PEP) - 10 a.m.