NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Privateers men's tennis team got a singles win from
Gonzalo Cotter and stretched out a couple of other matches in a 6-1 loss to the Tulane Green Wave on Sunday at City Park.
Cotter rebounded from losing the first set against Antonio Delgadillo. He won the race to 10 points in the third set tiebreak by a score of 10-4 to keep his singles record unbeaten at 7-0 after the flight four triumph.
Jacob Rouleau-Mailly and
Beltran Fernandez also pushed their matches to three sets in singles.
Rouleau-Mailly was pitted in a third set tiebreak against Daniel Phillips after the two men traded 6-3 set scores. Phillips won the tiebreak 7-4 to seal the point for Tulane. Also, Fernandez was involved in a third set 10-point tiebreak that went down to the wire, but was won by Asaf Friedler 10-8.
In doubles, the Privateers got out to quick starts at flight one and three, but Tulane wound up taking the first point of the day.
Alec Gaudin and Hady El Kordy won six of the last seven games to take their match 6-4. Friedler and Delgadillo also won their match by the same score line.
At flight one, Rouleau-Mailly and
Jerall Yasin were in a fierce battle against the 43
rd ranked doubles team in the nation in Phillips and Lance Nisbet. The match went unfinished at 5-5.
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The Privateers will play Southern Miss on Friday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m.
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