Wiger-Nordas wins all-Griz final at Peak Club Championship

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Wiger-Nordas wins all-Griz final at Peak Club Championship

10/31/2024 10:45:00 AM | Men's Tennis

By: Montana Sports Information

It was an all-Montana singles final at the Peak Racquet Club Fall Championship in Missoula over the weekend, with Grizzly junior Baltazar Wiger-Nordas beating UM freshman Duncan McCall in the title match.

Six Grizzlies signed up for the USTA event as individuals, with the bracket built of top club players in Western Montana and players from Eastern Washington University making the trip to compete as individuals as well.

Not only was it an all-UM singles final, it was an all-Griz semifinal as well. Montana narrowly missed out on a sweep of the tournament for a second-straight year, dropping the doubles championship to a pair from EWU.

"All-in-all it was a great tournament. I really wanted to get the new guys some competitive experience in the Peak so they could see what that felt like to have some fans there so when North Dakota rolls in here in January we're ready," said head coach Jason Brown.

"I was sad that there weren't more people there to watch the singles final. It was a long weekend of tennis, and it was an incredible level in the final, both guys played extremely well and that was nice to see.

"It was a little unfortunate we weren't able to take care of business in the doubles final, but we lost to, honestly, a really good Eastern Washington team that played well, played better than us in clutch spots. We let one slip away there, but sometimes that's more of a learning experience than if you just sweep a tournament."

The Grizzlies wrap up their fall tournament season next week in a trip to Spokane to play in Gonzaga's Bulldog Classic Nov. 8-10. The spring championship duals season starts on Jan. 25 when North Dakota visits Missoula at the Peak.

Montana Tennis Results: Peak Championships, Missoula, MT 10/25-27, 2024

Singles
Rd 32
Baltazar Wiger-Nordas vs Andrew Duman                 6-0, 6-0 W
Eivind Tandberg vs Bowen Pratt                                 6-0, 6-0 W
Dragos Bucurescu vs Sam Garetson                           6-1, 6-0 W
Johnny Wilkinson vs Brady Thomas                           7-5, 6-1 W
Duncan McCall vs Gabriel de Leo                               6-0, 6-0 W
Chris Zhang vs Ross Cruishank                                    6-0, 6-0 W

R16
Baltazar Wiger-Nordas vs Matthew Morrison            7-6 (2), 6-0 W
Johnny Wilkinson vs Arshjot Bhatti                            4-6, 6-3, (11-9) W
Eivind Tandberg vs Alex Messer                                  6-1, 6-1 W
Dragos Bucurescu vs Jonathan Hutley                        6-1, 6-0 W
Duncan McCall vs Mason McCarty                             6-1, 6-1 W
Chris Zhang vs Marco Zelver                                       6-3, 6-2 W

QF
Baltazar Wiger-Nordas vs Caden Kammerer              6-4, 7-5 W
Eivind Tandberg vs Tyler Dalos                                   6-7 (3), 6-1, (10-2) W
Chris Zhang vs Dragos Bucurescu                               6-4, 6-0
Duncan McCall vs Johnny Wilkinson                          4-6, 6-2, (10-5)

SF
Baltazar Wiger-Nordas vs Eivind Tandberg                 6-4, 6-3
Duncan McCall vs Chris Zhang                                    6-4, retired due to injury

F
Baltazar Wiger-Nordas vs Duncan McCall                  6-1, 4-6, 6-3

Doubles
R16
Wiger-Nordas/Tandberg vs                                         W
McCall/Wilkinson vs Wilson/Johnson                        6-0,6-0 W
Zhang/Bucurescu vs                                                   W

QF
Wiger-Nordas/Tandberg vs McCarty/Blanccaneaux 6-4, 7-6 (4) W
McCall/Wilkinson vs Ashley/Morrison                       6-2, 4-6 (10-4) W
Zhang/Bucurescu vs Weir/Hossack                            6-0,6-1 W

SF
McCall/Wilkinson vs Wiger-Nordas/Tandberg           8-6
Zhang/Bucurescu vs Dalos/Bhatti                              2-8 L

F
McCall/Wilkinson vs Dalos/Bhatti                              7-8 (9) L