ARKADELPHIA – The Ouachita men's tennis team returned home on Friday to take on 12th-ranked Texas-Tyler for its third match of the week, resulting in a 5-2 win for the Patriots.
Due to high winds, the match had to be moved inside the Ward Tennis Center.
UT-Tyler earned the doubles point by winning on courts one and two.
Elias Lagger and
Moritz Buss helped Ouachita avoid being swept in doubles with a win on court three. Court one saw a close match of top 10 doubles teams. UT-Tyler's Carel Wessel and Daniil Felker, ranked third in the nation, took down Ouachita's
Phil Exner and
Ramon Strassmann, ranked sixth by a score of 6-4.
Court one in singles also saw a battle of top 10 athletes with second-ranked Exner beating sixth-ranked Wessel convincingly. Lagger was responsible for Ouachita's other point with a two-set win at No. 3 singles.
Three of UT-Tyler's singles wins needed a tiebreaker to determine a victor.
The Tigers are back on the road this Sunday for their fourth and final match of the week, taking on No. 5 Washburn in a neutral site matchup in Edmond, Oklahoma.
NO. 12 UT-TYLER 5, NO. 50 OUACHITA 2
DOUBLES
- No. 3 Wessel & Felker (UTT) def. No. 6 Exner & Strassmann (OUA) 6-4
- No. 33 Malo Poulesquen & Artiom Dorofeev (UTT) def. Aaron Osmond & Yarin Aebi (OUA) 6-4
- Lagger & Buss (OUA) def. Arthur Miquelard & Job Japelj (UTT) 6-2
SINGLES
- No. 2 Exner (OUA) def. No. 6 Wessel (UTT) 6-1, 6-2
- No. 37 Dorofeev (UTT) def. Strassmann (OUA) 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4
- Lagger def. Martin Despodov (UTT) 6-2, 6-3
- Felker (UTT) def. Buss (OUA) 7-6 (9-7), 3-6, 7-6 (7-3)
- Poulesquen (UTT) def. Osmond (OUA) 6-3, 7-5
- Jordi Garcia (UTT) def. Tinus Mueller (OUA) 6-3, 1-6, 1-0 (10-1)
