Mens tennis team on roll, beats Charlotte 49ers
Friday, July 9, 2010 at 8:41PM By Arthur Takahashi
Eagles dominate match as they gear up to return to conference play where they’re undefeated
The Winthrop men’s tennis team beat the UNC-Charlotte 49ers 5-2 on Saturday at the Memorial Courts.
The Eagles are 5-10 in the season and 1-0 in conference play.
Winthrop started ahead on the scoreboard as it won the doubles point.
In the No. 1 doubles match, Daniel Daudt and Sergey Belov beat Moritz Bernhoerster and Jesse Hutchinson 8-3, while Guy Kubi and Nadav Ruppin defeated Charles Martin-Lecamp and Anthony Davison 8-4 in the No. 2 doubles match.
In singles play, the Eagles won five matches. In the No. 2 singles match, Ruppin had no problems defeating Martin-Lecamp 6-2, 6-1, while Levy came back from one set down to beat Michael Anders 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the No. 4 singles match.
In the No. 5 singles match, Bivens defeated Hutchinson 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, while Kubi beat Krzysztof Kwasniewicz 6-0, 4-6, 6-2 in the No. 6 singles match.
“We played a very competitive match against Charlotte today,” head coach Cid Carvalho said.
“It feels good to win two in a row. We are looking forward to playing our second conference match on Wednesday against Gardner-Webb,” he said.
The Eagles will be back in action at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday as they travel to Boiling Springs, N.C., to play a conference match against Gardner-Webb.
