The Virginia Wesleyan men's tennis team (7-9, 5-3 ODAC) split their squad on Saturday, April 12, falling to conference rival, No. 47 Averett University, 6-1 and sweeping Ferrum College 7-0.
Match vs Averett
The Cougars had a strong start to the match with a 6-1 win at #1 doubles over the Rullan Zarraga twins; but the Marlins leveled doubles competition with a 6-2 victory by
Sebastien Muller and
Hovo Madanyan at #2. To claim the doubles point for the Marlins,
Tudor Vlad and
Sainandan Challagundla overcame Florian Bert and Alex Donnelly by a score of 6-4 at #3.
Averett grabbed two straight set singles wins at #3 over
Francis Cabaddu and then at #1 over
Tudor Vlad to take a 2-1 lead after losing the doubles point.
At #2 singles,
Rafael Rullan Zarraga won his first set over Jaeden Mukkaladyil 6-1, but his opponent fought back and won the next two sets 6-4, 6-0.
Prabjeet Chandhok clinched the match for Averett at #4 singles over
Sebastien Muller by a score of 6-3, 6-2.
Next to finish was
Hovo Madanyan, who lost to Rafael Jodas 6-4, 6-3 at the fifth spot. The last match to finish was #6 singles where
Carlos Rullan Zarraga won the first set 6-4 at #6, but came up short 6-1, 11-9 against Lucas Fiandra.
Match vs Ferrum
The Marlins seized the doubles point as
Frieso ter Schiphorst won 6-3 at the top spot, and
Josh Buckland and
Natan Aerts won 6-1 at #2. VWU won the third doubles as well by forfeit.
Frieso ter Schiphorst and
Olaf Van der Stam dominated their opponents at #3 and #5 singles respectively.
Josh Buckland also had a smooth victory at #4, winning 6-0, 6-1.
Natan Aerts won in straight sets at the top of the lineup against Emilio Munguia by a score of 6-4, 7-5; and at the second line of singles
Jan Puvill battled against Gabriel Alvarez, winning 6-2, 6-7 (6), 10-8.
Alen Curovic won by forfeit at the sixth position to make it a clean sweep for the men's tennis team.
On Sunday, April 13, at 12:00 p.m., the men's team will face ODAC opponent, Guilford College.
