Men’s Tennis Drops Two To Tulsa

Sunday, January 12

Tulsa, Okla.

9:30 a.m.

Mercer University

Tulsa

1/12/2020 6:04:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

Bears fall twice on Sunday

By: Travis Rae

TULSA, Okla. – The Mercer men's tennis team dropped a pair of matches to Tulsa on Sunday. Mercer dropped match one, 6-1, before falling 4-0 in match two.

Open with doubles, the Bears Olivier Stuart and Hugo Lobo won No. 1 doubles, 7-5, but the Bears dropped the other two matches and dropped the point. The lone point of the day came in singles when Lobo came away with a three set win. After dropping set one, Lobo won the second and third set 6-1, 6-1 for the Bears lone point.

Mercer battled in the second match but did not collect a point and were defeated 4-0.

How It Happened
Match 1
SINGLES (Order: 3, 2, 1, 4, 6, 5)
1. #98 Kody Pearson def. #46 Olivier Stuart, 6-1, 2-6, 75
2. Hugo Lobo def. Jarod Hing, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
3. Stefan Hampe def. Carver Arant, 6-0, 6-1
4. Connor Di Marco def. David Georgadze, 6-2, 7-6 (7)
5. Ezequiel Santalla def. Stathis Tsiranidis, 6-1, 6-7 (8), (10-6)
6. Tom Thelwall-Jones def. Lucas Wayenburg, 7-6 (8), 6-2

DOUBLES (Order: 3, 2, 1)
1. Stuart/Lobo def. Hing/Thelwall-Jone, 7-5
2. Di Marco/Pearson def. Tsiranidis/Georgadze, 6-3
3. Boriss Kamdem/Daniel Siddall def. Arant/Sachin Khurana, 6-2

Match 2
SINGLES (Order: 5, 2, 1, 6)
1. #98Kody Pearson def. Hugo Lobo, 6-3, 6-3
2. Stefan Hampe def. David Georgadze, 6-3, 6-1
3. Ezequiel Santalla vs. Carver Arant, 4-2 unfinished
4. Tom Thelwall-Jones vs. John Wharton, 6-5 unfinished
5. Daniel Siddall def. Sachin Khurana, 6-3, 6-0
6. Boriss Kamdem def. Daniel Krashin, 6-1, 6-3

Up Next
The men's team will travel to Orlando, Fla. to take on UCF on Friday, Jan. 17. The Bears and Knights will place at the USTA National Campus. The match is set to start at 5 p.m.

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