TCU
South Alabama
Men's Tennis Drops 4-3 Decision to South Alabama
2/25/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Feb. 25, 2002
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The No. 29 TCU men's tennis team (4-3) fell in a close match with No. 42 South Alabama (6-5) on a cold, breezy Monday afternoon by a 4-3 count on the Bernard J. "Tut" Bartzen Varsity Tennis Courts at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center in Fort Worth, Texas. TCU will now take on 67th-ranked Furman this Friday, March 1 at 1:00 p.m. on their home courts.
The Frogs dropped the doubles point to fall behind early, however the duo of freshman Fabrizio Sestini and junior Toni Gordon managed an 8-6 win over 40th-ranked Kosta Zinchanka and Vincent Baudat at one doubles. Their win was TCU's first victory over a ranked doubles team this spring.
In singles, No. 74 Sestini rolled to his fifth straight victory with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Baudat at the No. 1 spot, while the unranked Gordon pulled his second consecutive upset over a ranked player with a 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 triumph over 13th-ranked Kosta Zinchanka at two singles. Zinchanka is the highest ranked player Gordon has beaten in his career. His previous high was then-No. 25 Andres Pedroso of Duke last season.
With the match knotted at 3-3, all eyes were on six singles where TCU freshman Jacob Martin was trailing 5-2 against Evan Fowler in the second set after losing the first in a tiebreaker. Martin managed to hold serve and then break Fowler to get back on serve and eventually fought his way into another tiebreaker. With the tiebreaker deadlocked at 6-6, Martin committed consecutive unforced errors to give Fowler and the Jaguars the victory.
By losing the doubles, TCU is now 1-3 when losing the doubles point. Their lone win was against No. 41 Tulane on February 23 by a 4-2 score at the Conference USA Shootout.
Singles
No. 1 #74 Fabrizio Sestini (TCU) def. Vincent Baudat (USA) 6-2, 6-3
No. 2 Toni Gordon (TCU) def. #13 Kosta Zinchanka (USA) 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
No. 3 Zlatko Stupavsky (USA) def. Daniel Wajnberg (TCU) 6-3, 6-2
No. 4 Heinrich Heyl (USA) def. #111 Daniel Scholten (TCU) 6-1, 6-3
No. 5 Alex Menichini (TCU) def. Clinton Jacobs (USA) 6-3, 2-6, 6-2
No. 6 Evan Fowler (USA) def. Jacob Martin (TCU) 7-6, 7-6
Doubles
No. 1 Sestini/Gordon (TCU) def. #40 Zinchanka/Baudat (USA) 8-6
No. 2 Christian Thall/Jacobs (USA) def. Scholten/Menichini (TCU) 8-4
No. 3 Heyl/Fowler (USA) def. Wajnberg/Brandi (TCU) 8-5
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