CLAREMONT, Ca. – Members of the Gustavus men's tennis team started 2025 NCAA Division III Championships play today on the campus of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps College. On the singles side, Marco Siviero (Sr., Sao Miguel de Oeste, Brazil) and Gage Gohl (Jr., Sioux Falls, S.D.) both lost tight matches to top-15 opponents. On the doubles side, Gohl and Tyler Haddorff (Jr., Burnsville, Minn.) lost in three sets to a team from the University of Chicago. 

Siviero started the day off in the singles competition for the Gusties, falling 6-3, 6-2 to Ruilin Feng of Emory, a freshman from Shanghai, China. The first set, won by Feng, 6-3, started off with five consecutive holds of serve. Feng, with a 3-2 lead, broke Siviero's serve for the first time to take a 4-2 advantage, but Siviero broke back to stay on serve at 4-3. After this changeover, Feng broke Siviero's serve for the second time and held on to win the first set 6-3.

Feng broke serve at 1-1 in the second set to take a 2-1 lead early on. Down a break, Siviero was broken again to go down 4-1. On the heels of defeat, the Brazilian broke Feng's serve to provide some room to operate late in the second set, but was broken right back to go down 5-2, where Feng held serve for the final time, to take the second set, 6-2, to win the first round match.

Siviero wraps up his career at Gustavus as a recipient of the MIAC Arthur Ashe Award and ITA Central Region Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award, a second team CSC Academic All-American member, three time All-American, two time MIAC All-Conference member, 2024 MIAC Singles Player of the Year, and two time CSC Academic All-District member. On the court, the Brazilian finished his singles career at a 53-47 mark, 52-35 all time against Division III opponents. On the doubles court, Siviero finished 73-37 overall, 68-29 against Division III opponents. Siviero's furthest singles run was in 2024, where he reached the NCAA Second Round to reach All-American status and his furthest doubles run was to the ITA Cup Doubles semifinal in 2023 with partner Josh Christensen. 

In the second singles match of the day, Gohl was faced with the tough task of facing the number one overall seed, junior Advik Mareedu from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, falling 6-4, 7-5. In the first set, down 5-2, Gohl gained some momentum, breaking serve and holding to cut the set score to 5-4, but Mareedu held serve to take the opener 6-4. 

Mareedu got out to a hot start in the second set, taking a 5-0 lead over Gohl. After the changeover, Gohl stormed back into the match, stringing together five games for himself to even the set up at 5-5, before having his serve broken to lose the set 7-5. 

Gohl finishes the singles season with a record of 19-8, going 19-6 against Division III opponents. In addition to on the court success, the Sioux Falls native received the MIAC's Elite 22 honor for Men's Tennis, which honors the individual who is a high-achieving student along with meeting the pinnacle of competition at the conference championship level in the conference, 

In the afternoon session, Gohl and teammate Tyler Haddorff, the reigning NCAA Division III Men's Doubles national champions, lost in three sets, facing the number two overall seed, Andrei Leonov and Pat Otero from the University of Chicago. In their three previous meetings this season, the team of Gohl and Haddorff held the advantage, beating the pair from Chicago twice in team events, 6-1 and 6-4, before losing two weeks ago 6-3. 

In the first set, the Gustie duo got up to a 2-1 lead, taking an early break off of the Maroons. At the 3-2 juncture of the match, Gohl served on deuce point to hold serve and forced an error from the returner to keep the crucial first break and extend the lead to 4-2. Serving at 4-3, Haddorff and Gohl surrendered the break and put the set back on serve, only to get the break back and hold the fate of the first set in their own hands. With Gohl serving, great work at the net by both players sealed the deal, with the Gustie doubles team taking the first set 6-4. 

At 2-1 in the second set, with Haddorff up to serve, three untimely double faults gave the pairing of Leonov/Otero the first break of the set. This proved to be the lifeline the Maroons needed, cruising to a 6-1 second set victory. 

The third set fit the expectations for the match, neither team giving much to their opponents. For the first four games, each team held serve. At 2-2 with Gohl serving, the UChicago team got the first break of the set. The team from Gustavus brought the match to a deciding deuce point down 5-4, but the earlier break proved to be the deciding factor, with UChicago winning the match 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. 

The team of Gohl and Haddorff finishes their junior campaign as doubles partners going 18-8, going 16-7 against Division III opponents. The duo received the MIAC Doubles Team of the Year honor as well for the second year in a row.