PULASKI, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee Southern men's tennis team hit the courts this week winning three straight matches. On Saturday, UTS defeated, previously unbeaten, #20 Oakland City 4-2. UTS hosted Midway on Monday, clipping the Eagles 4-3, and welcomed Blue Mountain Christian yesterday to D. Ann Neville Courts besting the Toppers 4-0.
UTS 4, #20 OCU 2
UT Southern got off to a hot start winning two of the three doubles matches, taking a 1-0 lead. In singles action,
Nickolas Rosa,
Gaspar Audisio, and
Felipe Dias each won in straight sets. The neutral site match was played in McKenzie, Tenn.
Doubles
- Rage Matuck/Luis Guilherme Cupertino de Santana (UTS) def. Nelson Ramos/Andres Perez Perez (OCU) 7-6
- Rosa/Dias (UTS) def. Juanes Pinto/Sebastian Bahamondes (OCU) 7-5
- Willem Cillers/Agustin Siufi (OCU) def. Audisio/Ryosuke Furuya 6-2
Order of Finish: 1, 3, 2
Singles
- Perez Perez (OCU) def. Daiki Ishii (UTS) 6-2, 6-3
- Rosa (UTS) def. Siufi (OCU) 6-3, 6-4
- Audisio (UTS) def. Ramos (OCU) 6-4, 7-5
- Furuya (UTS) vs. Bahamondes (OCU) 3-6, 6-6 (unfinished)
- Diaz (UTS) def. Aleksander Ivancevic (OCU) 6-2, 2-6, 13-11
- Matuck (UTS) def. Samarbir Sidhu (OCU) 6-1, 6-0
Order of Finish: 1, 2, 6, 3, 5
UTS 4, MU 3
UT Southern took the #1 and #3 doubles matches to win the deciding point. Ishii, Audisio, and Furuya claimed the top three singles matches.
Doubles
- Matuck/Cupertino de Santana (UTS) def. Izan Casado/Axel Sperling (MU) 6-2
- German Collado/Ferran Clapes (MU) def. Rosa/Dias (UTS) 6-4
- Audisio/Furuya (UTS) def. Manuel Mirabal/Daniel Pinzon (MU) 6-0
Order of Finish: 3, 2, 1
Singles
- Ishii (UTS) def. Sperling (MU) 6-2, 1-6, 10-6
- Audisio (UTS) def. Casaco (MU) 6-1, 6-0
- Furuya (UTS) def. Clapes (MU) 6-1, 6-1
- Collado (MU) def. Matuck (UTS) 6-1, 6-3
- Pinzon (MU) def. Brock Hamilton (UTS) 4-6, 2-6, 13-11
- Aleksey Granitsa (MU) def. Oscar Moreno (UTS) 6-0, 4-6, 10-8
Order of Finish: 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 1
UTS 4, BMCU 0
UTS swept Blue Mountain Christian in the doubles matchups. Cupertino de Santana, Rosa, and Audisio sealed the shutout taking the two, three, and four singles matchups.
Doubles
- Matuck/Cupertino de Santana (UTS) def. Leo Schon/Elio Garnier (BMCU) 6-2
- Rosa/Dias (UTS) def. Sanitago Perdomo/Jackson Ward (BMCU) 6-2
- Audisio/Furura (UTS) def. Luke Sanders/Joel Renfroe (BMCU) def. 6-0
Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
Singles
- Ishii (UTS) vs. Garnier (BMCU) (did not play)
- Cupertino de Santana (UTS) def. Schone (BMCU) 6-4, 6-4
- Rosa (UTS) def. Perdomo (BMCU) 6-2, 6-0
- Audisio (UTS) def. Ward (BMCU) 6-1, 6-2
- Furuya (UTS) vs. Sanders (BMCU) 6-0, 1-0 (unfinished)
- Matuck (UTS) vs. Renfroe (BMCU) 3-0 (unfinished)
Order of Finish: 3, 4, 2
NEXT UP
Tennessee Southern will host Campbellsville on Thursday, March 6, and host Bethel on March 8.
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