BEAUMONT, Texas – The New Orleans Privateers men's tennis team notched a 5-2 win against the Lamar Cardinals while the women's team lost by the same score line to Lamar on Saturday at the Thompson Family Tennis Center.
MEN'S RECAP
The men started the day by dominating doubles in their victory over Lamar to move to 2-2 in Southland play.
Julian Franzmann and
Marc Mail didn't drop a game at flight three as they won commandingly at flight three.
Matthew Armbruster and
Sep de Visser saw to it that the Privateers won the first point of the day with a 6-3 win at flight one.
When it broke to singles, the first four matches were split evenly which pushed the Privateers to a 3-2 lead overall.
Haruki Omori-Cowie won 6-1, 6-1 as he was the first singles match to finish and the first point for the Cardinals. Stefano Chappuis engineered a 6-4, 6-2 win at flight five for the other Cardinal point.
However, it was the Privateers who reigned supreme on the day.
David Tesic continued his fabulous season with a 6-4, 6-4 win at flight four. Franzmann won in straight sets (6-4, 7-5) and the Privateers needed just one more point.
They got it from
Jay Temming who battled to a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win against Louis Drapeau. The match closed when Mail scored a come-from-behind win against Leon Nickel (4-6, 6-3, 7-5).
WOMEN'S RECAP
The Privateer women were in a fierce doubles point that they fell on the short end of before losing four singles matches in a 5-2 defeat at Lamar.
The doubles matches at flights two and three both went to a tiebreak at 6-6. Lamar's Asta Miettinen and Megan Do won 6-3 at flight one. Then Arina Gudovskaya and Luana Paiva came through their tiebreak winning 7-5 to take the first point of the match.
The match at court three stopped with the tiebreak score reading 3-3.
In singles, Lamar won three of the first four matches to finish to seal matters in their favor.
Fleur Sprengers leveled the score for the Privateers as she was first off the court after a 7-5, 6-2 win against Miettinen. However, Lamar won the next three matches to finish.
Gudovskaya came through in straight sets, winning 6-4, 6-3 at flight one. That was followed by a 6-4, 7-5 win from Savannah Bijlsma at flight five. The clinching point was scored from Paiva who won 6-3, 6-4.
Kateryna Kalistratova put up the second point on the board for the Privateers after she came back from a set down to beat Do 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Martina Alcaino finished the day with a three-set win at flight six for the Cardinals.
NEXT UP
Both teams will close conference play at UIW on Monday at 11 a.m.
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