FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – The Shenandoah men's tennis team dropped a pair of matches to Stevens Institute of Technology and to Kenyon College on Saturday both by a score of 7-2. Against Stevens,
Artem Babaiev and Kieth Orr, both picked up the win in the second and third singles respectively. Then in the nightcap of the twin billings, Babaiev and Dominic Suwak got the wins again from the second and this time fourth singles respectively.
Match One vs Stevens:
#1 Doubles:
Artem Babaiev and
Keith Orr fell to Olof Persson and Aashi Kulakarni 8-4.
#2 Doubles:
Dominick Suwak and
Jovan Cirkovic fell to Vivek Harinarayan and Max-William Kanz 8-4.
#3 Doubles:
Aryanth Chintharlapalli and
Anton McCloskey fell to Sebastian Wroe and Samvid Andhare 8-5.
#1 Singles:
Jovan Cirkovic fell to Aashi Kulakarni 3-6, 6-3, 7-10.
#2 Singles:
Artem Babaiev defeated Vivek Harinarayan 6-4, 6-3.
#3 Singles:
Keith Orr defeated Sebastian Wroe 3-6, 6-1, 6-0.
#4 Singles: Dominic Suwak fell to Andrew He 6-1, 3-6, 8-10.
#5 Singles:
Aryanth Chintharlapalli fell to Max-William Kanz 0-6, 2-6.
#6 Singles:
Anton McCloskey fell to Olof Persson 3-6, 0-6.
Match Two vs Kenyon:
#1 Doubles:
Artem Babaiev and
Keith Orr fell to Paulo Pocasangre and Eliezer Gonzalez 8-7.
#2 Doubles:
Dominick Suwak and
Jovan Cirkovic fell to Christophe Leblanc and Gianluca Bocanegra 8-3.
#3 Doubles:
Aryanth Chintharlapalli and
Anton McCloskey fell to Harshal Rukhaiyar and Alejandro Gonzalez 8-0.
#1 Singles:
Jovan Cirkovic fell to Paulo Pocasangre 4-6, 3-6.
#2 Singles:
Artem Babaiev defeated Gianluca Bocanegra 7-6, 6-3.
#3 Singles:
Keith Orr defeated Eliezer Gonzalez 3-6, 1-6.
#4 Singles: Dominic Suwak fell to Rakkan Audeh 6-3, 6-0.
#5 Singles:
Aryanth Chintharlapalli fell to Christophe Leblanc 3-6, 1-6.
#6 Singles:
Anton McCloskey fell to Harshal Rukhaiyar 6-7, 1-6.
Up next for the Hornets, they will hit the road and resume conference play when they travel to Ferrum next Saturday. That match is scheduled to start at 2 pm.
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