HONOLULU, Hawai'i - The Hawai'i Pacific men's and women's tennis teams competed against local opponents this weekend at the UH Tennis Complex, with the men playing on the opening day of the Hawai'i Fall Invitational (Nov. 6-8) and the women competing in the Rainbow Wahine Fall Invitational (Nov. 5-7). Hawai'i hosted both events, which also featured UH Hilo, and the women's field also included Arkansas State.

The men's team played its matches on Friday, Nov. 6, and picked up a pair of comeback wins in singles. Matteo Perrod dropped the first set to Hawai'i's David Knesl 3-6, took the second in a tiebreak, 7-6 (7-5), and then won the deciding 10-point match tiebreak, 10-6. Rene Gabriel Jung also lost the first set to UH Hilo's Iori Furuhata 3-6 before rallying to win the second 6-3 and the match tiebreak, 10-7. Arthur Pery fell to Hawai'i's Hikaru Takahashi, and Perrod and Pery lost in doubles to UH Hilo's Jaden Williams and Matthieu Wehner.

The women's team made its presence felt right away on Thursday, winning both of its doubles matches. Elise Gillis and Willow Dymkowski took down Arkansas State pair Meghna Arun Kumar and Helena Bueno 6-4, and Sara White and Nicol Novak topped UH Hilo's Mila Srebro and Anna Takahashi by the same score. Dymkowski then added a 6-0, 6-2 singles win over a UH Hilo opponent, and Rosa Viller Moeller followed with a 6-1, 6-2 win over another UH Hilo opponent. Chelsea Campbell fell to Takahashi 6-2, 6-3, White lost to Bueno 6-0, 6-0 and Novak fell to Arkansas State's Hanmare McAslin 6-2, 6-3. Gillis pushed UH Hilo's Victoria Ricaurte-Cabas to three sets before dropping a 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 decision.

Doubles play continued into the weekend. On Friday, Campbell and Moeller fell to Arun Kumar and Bueno 6-3, and Gillis and Dymkowski's match against Ricaurte-Cabas and Marie Cordonnier of UH Hilo was suspended. The pair finished the job on Saturday, winning 6-3, and followed it with a 7-6 (7-4) victory over Arkansas State's Lily Cvanciger and Sara Kastakova in the opening round of the doubles bracket. Campbell and Moeller lost to Hawai'i's Hannah Galindo and Makeilah Nepomuceno 6-2 in the first round, and White and Novak fell to Ricaurte-Cabas and Cordonnier 6-3. In the second round, Gillis and Dymkowski lost to Nepomuceno and Stefi Aludo of Hawai'i 6-2, Campbell and Moeller lost to Galindo and Malgorzata Bajorek of Hawai'i 6-0, and White and Novak lost to Arkansas State's Carla Muro Castellvi and McAslin 6-1. Gillis and Dymkowski finished the weekend 3-1 in doubles.

Dymkowski also led the way in singles on Saturday, defeating UH Hilo's Takahashi 6-4, 6-2 to finish 2-0 in singles on the weekend. Moeller lost to Hawai'i's Grete Gull 6-3, 6-2 and to McAslin 6-0, 6-0, Campbell lost to Ricaurte-Cabas 6-2, 6-2, Gillis lost to UH Hilo's Srebro 7-5, 6-0 and Novak lost to Cordonnier 6-3, 6-4. Hawai'i Pacific finished the invitational 4-6 in doubles and 3-9 in singles.