BATON ROUGE, La. – The New Orleans Privateers men's tennis team went into deep water against tough competition at the ITA Southern Regional this week on the campus of LSU. Six Privateers represented in singles and doubles.
Two of the four Privateers won their opening round match in the qualifying draw.
Jay Temming scored a win over Niklas Nordahl Jensen (Southern Miss). Temming coasted through the first set by a double break and won a tiebreak in the second set to advance 6-2, 7-6 (4). Temming was defeated in the second round of qualifying by Santiago Arredondo of Samford 6-3, 6-3.
Joseph Townes also notched a first round qualifying win in singles. He took a long first set against Arnav Pathange of Alabama A&M. Pathange forced a deciding third set, but Townes snagged the decision 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. His second round match also went three sets against Nicolas Simkin of Troy who defeated Townes 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.
Matthew Armbruster played the top seed in qualifying in the first round and gave a tremendous fight in the opening set, which carried to a long tiebreak. Armbruster lost a grueling first set against Asaf Friedler of Tulane and was eliminated 7-6 (12), 6-1.
Julian Franzmann took his opponent right down to the wire with a third set tiebreak. Facing Charlie Burdell of Tulane, Franzmann won the second set to force a deciding third but Burdell won the tiebreak and took the match 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4).
Marc Mail and his opponent, Billy Blaydes of Auburn had only a service break in between them in the first set of the main draw opening round. Blaydes, a second team all-SEC pick last season, took the second set and won the match 6-4, 6-0.
All three doubles teams were eliminated in the first round of the draw. One went out due to a withdrawal.
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The men's team will head to Hammond for the Southland Fall Championship which starts Friday, Oct. 25.
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