Fernandez Gets Two Wins As Norfolk State Falls At Navy
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Freshman Flavian Fernandez won both his singles and doubles matches during a 6-1 loss to Navy on Saturday afternoon in a non-conference matchup moved indoors to the Tose Family Tennis Center.
Fernandez won at No. 1 doubles and No. 5 singles in the setback, which dropped NSU to 6-13 overall. The Midshipmen moved to 14-7 on the season.
At the top doubles position, Fernandez and freshman Benedikt Henning topped the Navy duo of Andrey Majkic and Aries Wong by a 6-4 margin. Facing Parker Hayslett at the fifth singles position, Fernandez pulled out a 7-5, 6-2 victory.
NSU default at No. 3 doubles and No. 6 singles, and Navy won the doubles point after winning the second slot. Krishna Jana and Walker Sims earned a 6-2 victory over NSU sophomores Antonio Pejic and Fatehdeep Singh.
Freshman Dan Dumitrascu battled Jana in a tight match at the second singles slot, dropping a pair of tiebreakers in both sets. In the first, Jana won 7-3 in the tiebreaker to win 7-6. He won the second set by the same score after taking that tiebreaker, 7-4.
Austin Jones got the win at the top spot in the lineup, downing Henning by a 6-4, 6-4 margin. In the other two matchups, Wong defeated Pejic at No. 3 singles, 6-4 and 6-0, while Sims earned a 6-1, 6-1 triumph over Singh at the fourth position.
Norfolk State will play at Longwood next Saturday at 1 p.m.
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Hampton Drops Indoor Twinbill
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- The Hampton University men’s tennis team moved both of its scheduled Saturday matches to inside at Centre Court Racquet Club in Newport News and lost both matches. In the opener they fell 4-3 to North Carolina Central University, while in the nightcap Virginia Wesleyan College defeated Hampton 6-1 as the Pirates dropped their record to 4-10 on the season.
In doubles against NCCU, the Pirates started with one match in hand as NCCU only had five players, so the third line of doubles was a forfeit win to Hampton. At the top spot, the tandem of Peter Odegbami and Fedor Shirin clinched the doubles point for Hampton with a 6-2 win over Gabriel Cucalon and Davide Callegari.
In singles competition, the visitors took wins in the first four spots of singles. Callegari and Odegbami went to three sets at the third spot with Callegari taking a 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 victory. Joshua McQueen gave Hampton its lone contested singles victory with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Dillon Strepay at the fifth spot of singles.
In the nightcap with the Marlins, Hampton won at the top doubles line with the tandem of Odegbami and Shirin defeating Graham Wilson and Adam Rosemblaum 8-2. VWC took the other two matches 8-6 and 8-4 to win the doubles point.
Singles saw the Marlins take wins in the first five spots as the top three matches all went three sets with VWC earning the points. In each of those matches, Hampton won the first set but lost the next two. Winning for Hampton in singles was Charles Hudson who scored a 6-3, 6-4 win at the sixth spot.
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NCCU Takes Two On Saturday Winning At Va. State
ETTRICK, Va. – Sophomore Kert Kilumets won his fourth consecutive match and the freshman duo of Gabriel Cucalon and Davide Callegari were both victorious for a third straight time in leading the North Carolina Central University men’s tennis team to a 5-4 non-conference victory over host Virginia State University late Saturday afternoon.
The Eagles triumph was their second win of the day after first topping Hampton University, 4-3, earlier Saturday and their third one-point win in two days after topping Averett University, 4-3, Friday. NCCU increased its record to 4-12 overall.
NCCU’s rookies dominated their matches, losing just one game apiece in their conquests. Cucalon improved his team-best singles record to 9-7 with his 6-0, 6-1 success in the second slot in the lineup. Callegari won by the same identical score one court over to inch closer to .500 at 7-9.
Kilumets was challenged a little more but he was still able to dispose of his top-tier foe by a 6-2, 6-1 score. Kilumets matches Callegari with a 7-9 singles ledger.
Junior Dillon Strepay, a walk-on who just started playing tennis at the beginning of the calendar year, had his best singles result for the Eagles yet in a 6-1, 6-1 loss on court five.
VSU (7-2) picked up its other three points from two forfeits and one retirement.
The Maroon and Gray first got on the board with a pair of doubles wins. Cucalon and Callegari coasted to an 8-1 victory at No. 1. Kilumets and senior Thomas Persico notched the other doubles point at No. 2 with an 8-5 rally. Both Eagle tandems tallied their fifth doubles wins together.
NCCU will conclude its season with a Senior Day home match against Shaw University on Friday at 1 p.m.
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