Rebel Duo Punches Ticket To NCAA Doubles Championship With Regional Crown

PROVO, Utah (UNLVRebels.com) – UNLV’s Marko Maksimovic and Arda Karakas won the 2026 ITA Mountain Region Men’s Tennis Championship in doubles on Saturday and earned a spot in the NCAA Doubles Championship next month. The Rebel duo, seeded first at the 14-team event, downed unseeded Matthew Upton and Duncan McCall of Montana on Saturday morning, 7-6 (4), 6-3, to go 5-0 and become UNLV’s first-ever ITA regional doubles champions in men’s tennis. The championship match was played primarily outdoors but lightning in the area sent the action indoors and, after a delay, the Rebels got the final three games needed…