ITHACA, NY - Senior Yevgeny Perpelov participated this past weekend in the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championships, hosted by Ithaca College.  Perpelove did an outstanding job reaching the finals, but lost in the championship match to Oliver Loutsenko of Skidmore 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 in a hard fought match.

Perpelov was the only CUNYAC player in the tournament to make it past the first round.  He won his first round match against Tim Wu of NYU 6-4, 7-5, while the only other CUNYAC Player Nikolas Zikos of Staten Island dropped his first round match.

In the second round, the Hawk easily disposed of his opponent from TCNJ with a score of 6-3, 7-5 advancing himself to the third round.  There, he quickly defeated Chandler Daub of RIT 6-1, 6-4.

In the quarterfinals, Perpolv had a tougher time defeating Benjamin Foran of Stevens.  After dropping the first set 4-6, he stormed back to take the next two sets 6-1, 6-2, taking 2 and a half hours to do so.

The semi-finals deemed no differently, as Perpolv faced Foran's teammate Chris Rosensteel.  Once again, the Hawk dropped the first set 1-6, but bounced back to take the second 6-3 and the third 6-4.


After going down 6-2 in the first set in the championship match, Perpelov regrouped and was able to grind out a 7-5 score in the second.  Unfortunately, Loutsenko was too strong and took the third and final set 7-5.

For complete results from the tournament, click here.

Perpelov now has until February to rest, as he and the rest of his team will compete in the Drew Invitational on the 13th.