Senior tennis player Neal Skupski had no time to ease into the singles competition in Costa Mesa, Calif., facing the spring 2011 NCAA singles champion in the first round Wednesday.
Skupski, the only Tiger to qualify for the singles tournament, fell to No. 6 seed Steve Johnson in the first round of the
Costa Mesa Tennis Classic in two sets, 4-6 and 5-7.
“In the second I got up pretty quickly, went up 5-2 and then I just couldn’t hold serve,” Skupski said. “I kind of got down on myself a little bit, but I think I played pretty well all