Mount St. Mary’s University men’s tennis recorded four wins in 10 singles matches and two victories in eight doubles matches during Saturday and Sunday’s competition at the Navy Gold Invite in Baltimore.
Alexi Roy and Nick Makris earned one of the team’s doubles wins by defeating Jacob Jones and Aaron Gu, 7-5. Federico Strocchi and Loyola’s Aidan Francia Cotter also won, beating Shawn Yon and Shane Hines, 7-6.
Four Mount Players Finish 1-1 in Singles
Strocchi added a singles victory with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Francia Cotter. He finished 1-1 in singles after losing to Cristian Pemueller, 2-6, 3-6.
Antoine Martel, Akarsh Gaonkar and Alessio Guarino also finished 1-1 in singles play. Martel defeated Yared Alfred, 5-7, 7-5, (10-6), while Gaonkar beat Shane Hines, 6-4, 6-4, and Guarino defeated Cyrus Shivkumar, 6-4, 7-6.
Mount Records Two Doubles Wins
Roy and Makris went 1-2 across their three doubles matches. After defeating Jones and Gu, they lost to Aleksandar DaskaloviC and Kosei Ogata, 2-6, and James Thomson and Ethan Garcia, 6-7.
Strocchi and Francia Cotter split their two doubles matches. The pair lost to Nathan Bermeo and Shiv Sastry, 6-7, before defeating Yon and Hines.
Nate Helms and Gaonkar lost to Zachary Quattro and Somei Ogata, 4-6. Sergei Likhogrud and Stefanos Pournaropoulos also lost twice, falling to Alex Van Lumich and Patrick Mihai, 5-7, and Reed Smith and Jason Kim, 6-7.
Mount St. Mary’s University Men’s Tennis Scheduled for Morgan State Event
Mount St. Mary’s University men’s tennis is scheduled to compete in the Bear 4+1 Invitational at Morgan State in Baltimore. The supplied schedule information does not include an opponent or date for the event.
Maryland Sports Blog Take
Mount St. Mary’s University men’s tennis produced four singles wins and two doubles victories at the Navy Gold Invite. Martel, Gaonkar, Guarino and Strocchi each finished 1-1 in singles, while the doubles teams of Roy and Makris and Strocchi and Francia Cotter accounted for the team’s wins.
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