Men Tennis ACCtion: Sunday, March 22
Conference play continues to heat up.
David Rosenfeld clinched Miami's 4-3 win over Duke with his triumph at No. 3 singles.

David Rosenfeld clinched Miami's 4-3 win over Duke with his triumph at No. 3 singles.

March 22, 2009

Virginia Downs Georgia Tech 6-1
The No. 1 Virginia men’s tennis team posted their seventh consecutive 20-win season as they improved to 20-0 this year with a 6-1 victory over No. 62 Georgia Tech Sunday afternoon at the Snyder Tennis Center. The Cavaliers also improved to 5-0 in the ACC.

The Cavaliers opened the match by sweeping the three doubles contests. Fourth-ranked Sanam Singh (Chandigarh, India) and Houston Barrick (Brentwood, Tenn.) opened the match with an 8-6 win over No. 61 Guillermo Gomez and Ryan Smith at No. 1 doubles. No. 13 Michael Shabaz (Fairfax, Va.) and Dominic Inglot (London, England) clinched the opening point for Virginia with their 8-5 win over Doug Kenny and Kevin King at No. 2 doubles. Drew Courtney (Clifton, Va.) and Lee Singer (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) completed the sweep with a 9-7 win over Eliot Potvin and Austin Roebuck at the No. 3 position.

In singles, Virginia’s won four matches quickly to wrap up the dual match victory. No. 23 Singh cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Potvin at No. 3 singles. Eighteenth-ranked Shabaz topped Miguel Muguruza 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2 singles. Courtney downed Smith 6-3, 6-2 to clinch the match. The match at No. 1 singles was a battle of two top-15 players, where No. 15 Inglot downed No. 12 Gomez 6-3, 6-2. The Cavaliers later added a win from Barrick at No. 4 singles, who topped King in a third-set match tiebreaker.

No. 14 Florida State Men's Tennis Completes Road Trip With 5-2 Win Over North Carolina
The No. 14-ranked Florida State men's tennis team completed its five-match road trip undefeated after defeating No. 34 North Carolina 5-2 in Chapel, Hill N.C. The marks the first time FSU has beaten both the Tar Heels and Duke in the same season.

For the third consecutive match the Seminoles (15-5, 5-0) took the doubles point to take a 1-0 lead. After jumping out to a 6-1 lead on court one No. 39-ranked juniors Jean-Yves Aubone and Vahid Mirzadeh had to hold on to defeat No. 34 Clay Donato and Taylor Fogleman on court one. The duo broke the Tar Heels at 7-7 and then served out the match to win 9-7. On court three, sophomore Clint Bowles and freshman Chris Reiman were taken to a tiebreaker by Brennan Boyajian and Zach Hunter. Tied at five Bowles and Reimen won the last two points to clinch the match 9-8(5). On court two seniors Drew Bailey and Maciek Sykut had their four-match winning streak broken by Andrew Crone and Alex Raflee 8-4.

Bailey clinched the match for Florida State on court four against Hunter. The Tallahassee, Fla., native won the first set 7-6 dominating the tiebreaker 7-2. Hunter came back and took set two 6-1 and went up 3-2 in the third. However Bailey was able to win the last four games of the set to earn FSU the victory.

Miami Men's Tennis Downs Duke for Second-Straight Win
The No. 45 University of Miami men's tennis team picked up its second-straight win, knocking off No. 28 Duke, 4-3, in Durham on Sunday afternoon. With the win, the Hurricanes improve to 8-6 overall and 4-1 in ACC play, while the Blue Devils fall to 8-5 overall and 1-2 in the conference.

Miami got off to another strong start, cruising to the 3-0 lead. The Hurricanes won the doubles point on victories at No. 1 from David Rosenfeld and Daniel Vallverdu and No. 3 from Christian Blocker and David Simon, and then picked up two-straight singles victories. Vallverdu, the 29th-ranked All-American, earned the second point for Miami with the 6-3, 6-2 victory in top-flight singles competition, while Simon earned the win at No. 4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Duke got on the board with a win at No. 5, but once again Rosenfeld clinched the match for the Hurricanes with a 6-1, 5-7, 7-5 win at No. 3.

No. 42 NC State Men's Tennis Blanks No. 69 Maryland
The No. 42 NC State men's tennis team swept No. 69 Maryland on Sunday, March 22 to win the second straight ACC match this weekend. The Pack did not let the Terrapins win one match in the 7-0 victory, winning all three doubles and all six singles contests in College Park, Md. With the win, the Pack improves to 9-7 (3-1 ACC) and Maryland falls to 7-7 (1-4 ACC).

Sophomore Rob Lowe and freshman Justin Jendruch took down Alex Aksanov and Mathias Sarrazin, 8-4, at No. 3, and senior Christian Welte and redshirt freshman Julian Sullivan beat Andrew Orban and Boris Fetbroyt, 8-6 at No 1. The No. 79 doubles team of senior Jay Weinacker and freshman Jaime Pulgar capped off the doubles sweep with an 8-6 victory over David Kwon and Nickolai Nielsen at No. 2.

The Pack built on their lead when senior Derek Stephens swiftly took down Sarrazin, 6-1, 6-1 at No. 4. Freshman Akash Gujarati beat Aksanov, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 6, and Sullivan secured the victory for the Pack with a third set, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, win over Fetbroyt at No. 5.

Hokies tame Tigers, 7-0
The hits just keep on coming at the Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center as the 21st-ranked Virginia Tech men’s tennis team rolled to a 7-0 blanking of Clemson Sunday afternoon. Tech improved to 11-3 on the year and 4-1 in the ACC while the Tigers fell to 8-8 and 0-5 in the conference.

The Hokies swept the doubles and only dropped two sets in taking all six singles contests.

In singles, Yoann Re (Jr., Verdun, Quebec, Canada) defeated Carlos Alvarez, 5-7, 6-0, 7-5, in a tightly contested No. 1 match while Nicolas Delgado de Robles (Sr., Madrid, Spain) took the No. 2 match, 7-6, 6-1, over Gera Borychinskiy. Elsewhere, Luka Somen (Fr., Karlovac, Croatia) won a tough No. 3 contest, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, against Rok Bizjak, Sebastien Jacques (So., Magog, Quebec, Canada) won, 7-6, 6-2, at No. 4 over Kevin Fleck, Brandon Corace (Sr., Naples, Fla.) cruised past Kevin Galloway, 6-3, 6-2, in the No. 5 match and Patrick Daciek (Fr., Severna Park, Md.) had no trouble at No. 6 winning 6-3, 6-3, versus Ike Belk.

Tech wasted no time in capturing the doubles point as Daciek/Delgado de Robles made short work of Boryachinskiy/Wesley Moran, 8-0, at No. 2 and Jacques/Re rolled to a 8-3 victory at No. 1 versus Alvarez/Bizjak. The Hokies completed the sweep as Corace/Pedro Graber (Jr., Santiago, Chile) edged Belk/Fleck, 7-6, at No. 3.

Deacons Cap-off Weekend with Sunday Doubleheader Wins
The Wake Forest men's tennis team improved to 12-5 and 2-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 4-3 over Brown and a 4-0 win over Boston College on Sunday.

Sophomore Jonathan Wolff remained undefeated in singles through both matches, improving his dual match record to 13-0.

Senior Cory Parr had a perfect day, opening the day with a doubles win with Steven Forman and following with two singles wins at No. 1. Parr is now 12-3 at No. 1 singles and 11-2 at No. 1 doubles.