JACKSONVILLE, Ala. – 10 members of the Kennesaw State men’s and women’s tennis team competed at Jacksonville State in a pair of exhibition matches with the Gamecocks on Friday.
On the men’s side, Anthony Weingarten paced the Owls in singles with two victories. The freshman grabbed a 5-7,6-2, 10-6 win over Vanja Dobrnjac in the morning session and followed it up with a 6-4, 4-6,10-8 victory over Logan Haga. Kevin Patel also collected a victory in three sets in the afternoon singles session. Patel and Weingarten opened the doubles in the morning with a 6-3 win and in the afternoon they rolled to a 6-2 victory.
The KSU women were paced in singles by Ji Youn Lee who collected a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Roman Mosse in the morning session. During the afternoon she took down Irene Artigas 6-4, 6-0.
Results
Round 1 doubles men:
Soller/Dobrnjac (JSU) def Harvey/Tezuka (KSU) 6-3
Patel/Weingarten (KSU) def Palcau/Fatu 6-3 (JSU)
Cuellar/Inagawa (JSU) def Limyadi/Lucentini 6-4 (KSU/JSU) mixed team since KSU only had 5 guys available
Round 1 singles men:
Cuellar (JSU) def Conway (KSU) 6-3 4-2 (retired)
Sarda Marti (JSU) def Patel (KSU) 6-4 6-3
Palcau (JSU) def Tezuka (KSU) 7-6 6-0
Weingarten (KSU) def Dobrnjac (JSU) 5-7 6-2 10-6
Arbelaez (JSU) def Limyadi (KSU) 6-1 6-1
Round 2 doubles men:
Patel/Weingarten (KSU) def Fatu/Arbelaez (JSU) 6-2
Beneyto/Bennemann (JSU)def Tezuka/Limyadi (KSU) 6-1
Patel (KSU) def Soller (JSU) 6-2 5-7 10-8
Fatu (JSU) def Tezuka (KSU) 7-5 6-1
Weingarten (KSU) def Haga (JSU) 6-4 4-6 10-8
Inagawa (JSU) def Limyadi (KSU) 6-2 6-2
Women’s doubles round 1
Mosse/Shastova (JSU) def (KSU) Dean/Lee 6-4
Tuomela/Syrova (JSU) def Pinedo/Unger (KSU) 6-2
Artigas/Ramenskaja (JSU) def Prato/Pinedo (Mixed team JSU/KSU since KSU only brought 5 girls) 7-6 (3)
Women’s singles round 1
Shastova (JSU) def Dean (KSU) 7-5 6-0
Lee (KSU) def Mosse (JSU) 6-3 6-4
Syrova (JSU) def Unger (KSU) 6-3 6-1
Ramenskaja (JSU) def Gottiparthy (KSU) 6-4 6-1
Prato (JSU) Pinedo (KSU) 2-6 6-4 16-14
Women’s doubles round 2
Shastova/Ramenskaja (JSU) def Dean/Lee (KSU) 6-2
Syrova/Mosse (JSU) def Pinedo/Unger (KSU) 6-2
Jones/Pavelekova (JSU) def Prato/Gottiparthy (KSU/JSU) mixed team 6-2
Women’s singles round 2
Pavelekova (JSU) def Dean (KSU) 6-3 6-3
Lee (KSU) def Artigas (JSU) 6-4 6-0
Tuomela (JSU) def Unger (KSU) 6-2 6-1
Gottiparthy (KSU) def Jones (JSU) 4-1 retired
Next Up
The KSU women will head to Statesboro, Ga. for the Georgia Southern Invitational on October 7-9 while the men will head to ITA Southeast Regionals on October 20-24.
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