NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Privateers men's and women's teams both finished the day with a 7-0 sweep of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Bulldogs on Wednesday at the Privateer Tennis Center.
The women played a quick and methodical match across the board as the whole match took less than two hours to complete.
"The women played very well today," said Coach
Burzis Kanga. "The doubles point always helps and we changed it up in that aspect today. When they got to singles everyone was methodical in their own matches and hopefully this adds momentum moving forward."
In doubles, it was decisive victories at flights two and three.
Kateryna Kalistratova and
Nouray Khaled only lost one game in their doubles match. Meanwhile,
Naila Krifa and
Ananya Dhankhar paired together at flight three for a similar score line.
Fleur Sprengers and
Danique Vermue finished the doubles sweep with a 6-4 win at flight one.
In singles, no player lost more than three games in any set and the ladies combined to concede just 15 total games across the 12 sets played.
Everyone had a dominating score line. Krifa won 6-0, 6-1 and Sprengers won 6-1, 6-1. Dhankhar won 6-2, 6-0 and Khaled won 6-2, 6-1. Vermue won 6-1, 6-2 while playing against the school she transferred from last season.
Kalistratova finished the sweep with a 6-3, 6-1 victory at flight two.
On the men's side, there were a lot more challenging moments, but the Privateers pulled through all of them to move to 2-0 on the season.
"We had our hands full on the men's side but we executed a good game plan across the board," said Kanga. "Everybody who was in a battle today found their way through. I tell them you have to be ready every match."
Beltran Fernandez and
Evgenios Vasilakis got ahead by a service break early and held through for a 6-3 win. The other two doubles matches finished with a 7-5 score.
Jacob Rouleau-Mailly and
Marius Gyllerup paired for the win at flight two.
Gonzalo Cotter and
Carlos Melgosa followed their dramatic comeback on Monday in doubles with another 7-5 win.
Melgosa and Vasilakis were both pushed to three sets, but both came through. Melgosa won his third set by a double break and Vasilakis earned his first singles win of the season by taking the 10-point third set tiebreak 10-5.
Rouleau-Mailly, Fernandez, Gyllerup and Cotter all won in straight sets. Cotter rallied back from 0-40 down to break serve at 5-5. He then proceeded to hold serve to clinch his match at flight five.
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The Privateers will host Coastal Alabama on Friday.
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