It was an all-Stanford affair yesterday in the finals of the ITA Regional Championships in Seattle. Sophomore Richard Wire took home the singles title, and junior Blake Muller and freshman Ted Kelly won the doubles championship in convincing fashion.

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Junior Blake Muller teamed with Ted Kelly to win the doubles draw at the ITA Regional Championships. By beating their teammates in the finals, they qualified for November’s Nationals.

Wire, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, beat fourth-seeded Andy Kuharszky of Washington in a thrilling three-set match. Wire won the first set easily, 6-3, but Kuharszky bounced back to take the second set, 7-5. The third set went to a tiebreaker, where Wire prevailed 7-4.

Wire improved his record to 9-1 in the tournament (both singles and doubles) and 11-1 on the season. Muller and Kelly boasted an undefeated record of 5-0 in their first matches together.

In doubles it was an all-Stanford final, as both Stanford teams won their semifinal matches earlier in the day. Wire and freshman Greg Hirshman beat UC-Berkeley’s Geoff Chivezer and Pedro Zerbini, 8-4, while Muller and Kelly blanked the Golden Bears’ Jonathan Dahan and Pierre Mouillon, 8-0.

In the final, Muller and Kelly won 8-2 over their teammates, and, in the process, secured a spot in the National Indoor Championship doubles bracket. They will join Wire, who qualified with his victory in singles, and teammate Alex Clayton, who qualified in singles at last weekend’s ITA All-American Championships. The event will feature 32 individual competitors and 16 doubles teams.

The National Indoor Championships are held at the beginning of November in Columbus, Ohio. The weekend before, the Cardinal will compete in another tournament at the Cal Classic in Berkeley, Calif.