Mercer Falls to Samford in Regular Season Finale

Saturday, April 13

Macon, Ga.

11 a.m.

Mercer University

Samford

Mercer Falls to Samford in Regular Season Finale

4/13/2019 3:36:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Bears drops home match, 4-3

By: Gerrit W. Van Genderen

MACON, Ga. – The Mercer men's tennis team fell to Samford, 4-3, in a Southern Conference regular season finale at the Leroy Peddy Tennis Center on Saturday.

Olivier Stuart completed an undefeated sweep of the league in No. 1 singles play, improving to 7-0 with a straight-sets (6-3, 6-0) victory over Samford's Rossouw Norval. Mercer ended the regular season at 10-14 overall and 3-3 in conference action.

After dropping the doubles point, Mercer rallied with three consecutive wins in singles play on courts one, four and six; Carver Arant and Fernando Guardia joined Stuart with straight-set wins. Samford would rally, however, claiming the final three matches on courts three, five and two.

Doubles (Order of Finish: 2,1,3)
1. Olivier Stuart/Nicolas Guillon (MER) def. Daniel Orlita/Jack Lyttle (SAM), 6-3
2. Max Rebol/Aleksandar Petrovic (SAM) def. Stathis Tsiranidis/David Georgadze (MER), 6-1
3. Rossouw Norval/M.A. Bellalouna (SAM) def. Carver Arant/Fernando Guardia (MER), 7-6

Singles (Order of Finish: 1,4,6,3,5,2)
1. Olivier Stuart (MER) def. Rossouw Norval (SAM), 6-3, 6-0
2. Daniel Orlita (SAM) def. Nicolas Guillon (MER), 7-6, 6-2
3. Aleksandar Petrovic (SAM) def. Stathis Tsiranidis (MER), 7-6, 6-2
4. Carver Arant (MER) def. Max Rebol (SAM), 6-4, 6-1
5. M.A. Bellalouna (SAM) def. David Georgadze (MER), 6-4, 2-6, 6-3
6. Fernando Guardia (MER) def. Jack Lyttle (SAM), 6-4, 7-6

Next Up
Mercer shifts its focus to the Southern Conference Championships, held in Macon next week.

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