SEATTLE, Wash. — Six members of the UC Davis men's tennis team will participate in singles and doubles play Oct. 15-20 at the ITA Northwest Regional hosted by Washington at the Nordstrom Tennis Center. The six Aggies scheduled to compete are Cyrus Ahmad, Nadaul Cheam, Perry DiGiulio, Aiden Mueller, Ivan Savkin and Kaveh Taheri.
In singles, Savkin has a bye in the main flight Round of 64 singles competition, while Taheri will take on fifth-seeded Paris Pouatacha of California and Cheam will face Santa Clara's Luca Lemaitre Vilchis.
Ahmad, DiGiulio and Mueller are in the singles qualifying flight. DiGiulio is the top-seeded player in the flight and along with Ahmad has a Round of 64 bye, while Mueller will take on ninth-seeded Jacopo Antonelli of Sacramento State.
Mueller (7-0), Savkin (6-0) and DiGiulio (3-0) are unbeaten in singles play over the Aggies' first two events of the fall season at the UC Davis Aggies Invitational and the NorCal Shootout hosted by Saint Mary's, while the team is 24-9. Savkin (blue flight) and Mueller (white flight) were champions at the UC Davis Aggie Invitational.
All six Aggies are also involved in opening Round of 64 doubles' matchups. Ahmad and Cheam will face Washington's Nikola Plavsic and Sebastian Gampert, while DiGiulio and Taheri take on Sacramento State' Alexander Simone and Freddie Healey, and Savkin and Mueller will go against Pacific's Adi Dagan and Niv Zuckerman.
Savkin/Mueller has the team's top doubles mark at 5-1 and won the UC Davis Aggie Invitational with a perfect 3-0 showing. Overall, the Aggies have posted an 18-13 mark in doubles play.
Specific dates and times have yet to be announced for all matches.
ITA NORTHWEST REGIONAL - THURSDAY-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15-20, 2026
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