BYU men’s tennis left Dallas with seven match wins, but the useful headline is smaller than the total: Leon Peranovic was the only Cougar to win twice in singles.
Peranovic beat Harvard’s David Wu 6-3, 6-3, then handled a first-set tiebreak in a 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 win over SMU’s Meethre Barot. Those were BYU’s only two-win singles results at the Ralston/Neufeld Coaches Challenge. Yubel Ubri and Otto Schreiner each added one singles win, while BYU collected three doubles victories.
This was an individual fall tournament, not a dual match. There was no BYU-SMU team score and no seven-point team win. The official card lists 15 Cougar singles matches and six doubles matches against players from six programs. BYU went 4-11 in those listed singles matches and 3-3 in doubles.
Seven wins are worth recording. They are also better understood as a five-player lineup test, with Peranovic providing the cleanest singles answer and the Hasler-Hardy pair providing the best doubles answer.
BYU’s verified Dallas result card
| Cougar | Singles record | Doubles record | Best result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leon Peranovic | 2-1 | 1-1 with Otto Schreiner | Beat SMU’s Meethre Barot 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 |
| Yubel Ubri | 1-2 | 0-1 with Schreiner | Beat UTSA’s Gabriel Jalouneix 7-5, 6-0 |
| Otto Schreiner | 1-2 | 1-2 across two pairings | Beat UTSA’s Joel Hansson 6-3, 6-1 |
| Caden Hasler | 0-3 | 2-1 with Hardy Owen | Beat Harvard 6-1 and SMU 6-2 in doubles |
| Hardy Owen | 0-3 | 2-1 with Hasler | Same two doubles wins with Hasler |
The table uses the matches published in BYU’s official recap. BYU’s roster lists Hardy Owen; the recap flips his name to “Owen Hardy” in its result card. The player is identified here by the official roster order.
The result sheet also needs one boundary. SMU’s host recap says Barot and Vikas Deo won the doubles title. BYU’s card identifies a 7-6 (7-5) loss by Peranovic and Schreiner to a Deo-Noah McDonald pairing. Without a complete round-by-round BYU draw, there is no honest way to place every Cougar doubles match into the championship bracket. The wins and losses stand. A claimed BYU team placement does not.
Peranovic gave BYU two different straight-set wins
Peranovic’s 2-1 singles weekend was not built from two copies of the same match.
Against Wu, the score stayed symmetrical: 6-3, 6-3. There was no deciding set and no tiebreak. Peranovic established a margin in the first set and reproduced it in the second.
Barot made him solve a different problem. The opening set reached a tiebreak, where Peranovic won seven of nine points. He then took the second set 6-3. That finish matters more than the phrase “straight sets” suggests. A 7-6, 6-3 result shows a player moving from a set that could turn on two points into one with a full break of separation.
His final published match went the other way. Tulsa’s Ruben Fernandez Ruiz won 6-4, 1-6, 10-5. The format changed after the split sets, replacing a full third set with a match tiebreak. Peranovic did enough to force that deciding phase, then lost five of the 15 points recorded there.
Put together, the card is useful rather than spotless: two straight-set wins, one tiebreak conversion, one strong second-set response in a loss and one deciding tiebreak that got away.
That is a better fall receipt than a raw 2-1 label. It shows where Peranovic controlled matches and where the margin narrowed. It also gives him the strongest singles argument among the five Cougars BYU sent to Dallas.
Hasler and Hardy found the doubles answer
Caden Hasler and Hardy Owen went 2-1 together. They beat Harvard’s David Wu and Zachary Cohen 6-1, then defeated SMU’s Deo and Sasa Markovic 6-2. Incarnate Word’s Alejandro Hernandez and Marcel Miralles handed them a 6-2 loss.
Short-set doubles can turn quickly, which makes the shape of those scores useful. Hasler and Hardy did not squeeze through two breakers. They allowed one game in one win and two in the other. Their loss was equally clear.
That gives coaches a sharp three-match sample: the pairing could create distance against Harvard and SMU, then failed to do it against Incarnate Word. There is no need to turn that into a spring lineup promise. BYU can keep the pair, split it or test it again in November. Dallas did enough to make another look reasonable.
Hasler’s singles card was much rougher. He lost 6-2, 6-2 to UTSA’s Victor Rocha, won the opening set against SMU’s Sasa Markovic before falling 3-6, 6-2, 6-0, and lost 7-5, 7-5 to Tulsa’s Alvaro Frutos.
The Markovic result is the one that sticks. Hasler owned the first set, then won two games across the next two. A fall event is built for exposing that kind of swing without costing a team point. The 7-5, 7-5 loss to Frutos was closer, but close losses do not become wins by rounding.
Hardy’s singles weekend also ended 0-3, though two matches required a deciding phase. UTSA’s Dmitri Goubin beat him 6-3, 4-6, 11-9. SMU’s Deo won 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2). Tulsa’s Dani Szabo took the third match 6-2, 6-2.
Hardy therefore left Dallas with two doubles wins and two singles matches in which he answered a lost opening set by winning the second. He did not close either one. That is not a hidden victory, but it is a specific November assignment: preserve the middle-match adjustment and improve the deciding phase.
Ubri and Schreiner supplied the other singles points
Ubri’s win over UTSA’s Gabriel Jalouneix had BYU’s widest winning set of the tournament. He took a tight first set 7-5, then closed 6-0.
The score tells a clean story without needing point-by-point invention. Ubri found separation after a competitive opener and did not give a game back in the second set. His other matches went to SMU’s Luis Flores, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, and Tulsa’s Alex Nunez, 6-2, 6-2.
The Flores loss is the useful comparison. Ubri won a 7-5 opening set in his victory and lost a 7-4 tiebreak in his closest defeat. One late-set sequence separated the two paths. Against Jalouneix, he used the edge to run away with the next set. Against Flores, he had to chase and could not force a third.
Schreiner beat UTSA’s Joel Hansson 6-3, 6-1. Noah McDonald of SMU beat him 6-4, 6-2, and SMU’s Deo won 6-3, 6-3. The senior’s singles card was the most compact of the group: three straight-set results, one for him and two against him.
His doubles results were split across partners. Peranovic and Schreiner beat Wichita State’s Oliver Paige and Felix Bockelmann 7-5, then lost the published 7-6 match against SMU. Ubri and Schreiner lost 7-5 to UTSA’s Hansson and Jalouneix.
That leaves Schreiner with one win in each discipline and three close doubles sets, all decided by two games or a tiebreak. The results do not identify a settled partner. They do show that Schreiner was involved in nearly half of BYU’s listed doubles matches, which is useful work for a senior before the dual season.
Seven wins did not equal a tournament finish
The How to Follow guide warned against reading the event label as BYU versus SMU. The completed results confirm it.
BYU faced Harvard, Incarnate Word, Wichita State, SMU, UTSA and Tulsa. The official event record names SMU because the host needs to occupy the opponent field in BYU’s schedule system. The competition itself mixed individual singles and doubles matches across a larger field.
The host’s official ITA tournament page lists 33-64-player singles and doubles events, 12 available courts and a Friday-through-Sunday competition plan. BYU’s stable event record used an Oct. 29-31 window, while the host ran through Nov. 1. That date mismatch was real before the event and remains worth preserving after it.
BYU’s seven wins consisted of four singles victories and three doubles victories. They did not combine into seven team points, and they did not produce a published team standing. SMU’s Barot and Deo won the host’s doubles title. BYU’s recap does not claim an individual bracket title.
The Cougars’ best takeaway is internal. Peranovic won twice in singles. Hasler and Hardy won twice as a pair. Ubri and Schreiner each put one decisive straight-set result on the board. The same card also contains 11 singles losses, including four matches that reached either a third set or a match tiebreak.
That is a real fall tournament: enough success to keep combinations alive, enough losses to make the next practice specific.
What comes next
BYU’s schedule lists ITA events in Tempe, Arizona, and Rome, Georgia, beginning Nov. 5. The Rome event is the ITA Conference Masters Championships; the Tempe event is an ITA sectional route. The public schedule does not assign the Dallas group to either destination.
Peranovic’s two wins make him the obvious Dallas name to check when those entry lists appear. Hasler and Hardy’s doubles result gives BYU a pair worth watching. Neither conclusion is a confirmed November selection.
The permanent BYU men’s tennis schedule will carry the next official event links. The men’s tennis roster keeps the player identities straight, and our tennis season map explains how the fall individual calendar feeds the spring dual lineup.
Dallas did not hand BYU a trophy or a team score. It handed the Cougars seven wins and a clearer hierarchy of what worked. Peranovic’s singles weekend sits first. Hasler and Hardy’s doubles pairing sits second. The unfinished deciding matches are where the November work begins.
Sources and further reading
- BYU Athletics: completed event 25476 for the stable event ID, Dallas location, completed status and official event links.
- BYU Athletics: SMU Invitational recap for BYU’s seven wins, five-player result card and published scores.
- BYU Athletics: tournament preview for the confirmed travel group and stated doubles-testing plan.
- SMU Athletics: host recap for the host doubles champion and independent confirmation of Deo’s singles win over Schreiner.
- Official ITA tournament page for the event identity, venue, dates, field, format and tournament ID 26-25776.
- BYU Brand colors and SMU’s official color palette for the two-sided palette in the original editorial hero.
- BYU Sport Nuts: SMU How to Follow guide, men’s tennis hub, roster and schedule.
