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Men's Tennis Falls to BYU
3/4/2011 12:00:00 AM | MEN'S TENNIS
March 4, 2011
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The No. 52 DePaul men's tennis team suffered a 4-0 loss to No. 50 BYU in the opening round of the HEB National Team Tournament on Friday at the Corpus Christi Country Club. The Blue Demons fall to 10-3 while BYU improves to 7-4.
Sven Kasper and Bartosz Jozwiak tallied the lone win for the Blue Demons. The pair, improved to 17-8 with an 8-6 win over Evan Urbina and Patirck Kawka in the top doubles spot.
With BYU winning the doubles point, the Cougars needed just three singles victories to secure the dual win. BYU finished off the match with wins on the first, second, fourth courts.
With the match ending when BYU won its fourth point, DePaul's George Chanturia and Filip Dzanko had both put themselves in a position to win -- both had taken their respective matches into a third set.
The Blue Demons close out their day against Western Michigan this evening.
No. 50 Brigham Young 4, No. 52 DePaul 0
Doubles
No. 1 Sven Kasper/Bartosz Jozwiak (DPU) def. Evan Urbina/Patrick Kawka (BYU) 8-6
No. 2 Thomas Shubert/Georgy Batrakov (BYU) def. George Chanturia/Matija Palinic (DPU) 8-3
No. 3 Roman Warias/Spencer Smith (BYU) def. Ben Hartman/Filip Dzanko (DPU) 9-8
Singles
No. 1 Evan Urbina (BYU) def. Sven Kasper (DPU) 6-0, 6-4
No. 2 Georgy Batrakov (BYU) def. Matija Palinic (DPU) 6-4, 6-2
No. 3 Spencer Smith (BYU) vs. George Chanturia (DPU) 1-6, 7-5, 1-0, DNF
No. 4 Patrick Kawka (BYU) def. Bartosz Jozwiak (DPU) 6-1, 6-1
No. 5 Thomas Shubert (BYU) vs. Filip Dzanko (DPU) 4-6, 6-1, 1-1, DNF
No. 6 Roman Warias (BYU) vs. Ben Hartman (DPU) 6-2, 2-4, DNF
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