DePaul Doubles Duo Advances at Milwaukee Tennis Classic

Thursday, September 20

Milwaukee, Wis.

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Milwaukee Tennis Classic

DePaul Doubles Duo Advances at Milwaukee Tennis Classic

9/20/2018 9:44:00 PM | MEN'S TENNIS

Boris Spanjaard and Christopher Casati defeat Omaha 8-5 on Thursday

MILWAUKEE – DePaul men's tennis racked up its first win of the new season Thursday at the prestigious 43rd Milwaukee Tennis Classic with a field of 21 men's tennis teams from across the country.

Following singles play, the team of Boris Spanjaard and Christopher Casati prevailed 8-5 over their doubles counterparts Razvan Grigorescu and Abdoul Ouattara of Omaha in the afternoon.

They advance to the main draw round of 16 to face the Tennessee tandem of Preston Touliatos and Luca Wiedenmann. They defeated Wisconsin's Alan Sweet and Robert Krill 8-1.

The first DePaul player to hit the court in the new season was Spanjaard for his Thursday morning singles match. The All-BIG EAST junior won his first set of the season 6-3 against Chase Colton of Wisconsin but dropped the next two sets by the same score.

Teammate Christopher Casati took the Town Club court to face Minnesota's Josip Krstanovic and came up short 6-1, 6-2.

Both Spanjaard and Casati move into consolation-round singles play on Friday.

Also on Friday, Tripp Tuff, Tamas Zador, Luuk Wassenaar, Conor O'Meara and Fran and Vito Tonejc will see their inaugural action representing DePaul at the WMU/Vredevelt Invitational hosted by Western Michigan.

Results
Singles
Chase Colton, (WIS) def. Boris Spanjaard, (DPU) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
Josip Krstanovic, (MINN) def. Christopher Casati (DPU) 6-1-6-2

Doubles
Spanjaard/Casati (DPU) def. Grigorescu/Ouattara (OMAHA) 8-5