Bethune-Cookman's 2012-2013 tennis season opened Friday with two victories at the Embry-Riddle open and another at the Bedford Cup hosted by the University of Florida.

The Wildcat men's team had a doubles victory at each site.

In Gainesville, Santiago Lobelo and Diego Garavito defeated Florida Atlantic's Sean Bacha and John Nowak 8-2 in the opening round. The Wildcat duo later fell to fourth-seeded Andres Bucaro and /Benjamin of Florida State by a count of 8-5.

At Embry-Riddle, Juan Varon and Seve Day posted an 8-5 victory over Ari Davis and Jason Alabaster of Rollins.

The lone singles victory went to sophomore Chinatsu Kajiwara, who defeated Magda Riutort of Florida Southern 6-4,6-4 to advance in the Gold Flight.

Action continues at both sites through Sunday.

Other B-CU results:

At Embry-Riddle

Men's Singles
Malte Christensen (Rollins) defeated Juan Varon 6-3,6-2
David Spennare (Embry-Riddle) defeated Gilbert Kilbert 6-2,5-7,6-2
Nathan Leavitt (Florida Southern) defeated Seve Day 7-5,6-2

Women's Singles
Hiu-l Huang (Embry-Riddle) defeated Shereen Peterson-Paul 6-2 6-2
Callie Whitlock (Rollins) defeated Ancia Ifill 6-2,6-3
Christie Nunnemann (Florida Southern) defeated Gaby Chinchilla 6-4,6-4
Angie Crowley (Rollins) defeated Laura Rodriguez 6-2,6-0

Women's Doubles
Sabine Goge/Riutort (Florida Southern) defeated Kajiwara/Chinchilla 8-4
Whitlock/ Carli Davis (Rollins) defeated Rodriguez/Ifill 8-3

At Gainesville

Men's Singles
Ravi Patel (USF) defeated Diego Garavito 6-4, 6-0
Jordi Vives (Florida Gulf Coast) defeated Santiago Lobero 6-2, 6-0
Dean Tsamas (Florida Gulf Coast) defeated Moritz Pronath 6-3,6-4
Jackson Moore (Florida Gulf Coast defeated Kip Jackson 6-4 6-4

Men's Doubles:

Moritz Buerchner / Julien Belair (UNF) defeated Pronath/Jackson 8-2