North Carolina State University Athletics
No. 49 Men's Tennis Falls to No. 45 Louisville
1/23/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
RALEIGH, N.C. - The No. 49 NC State men's tennis team suffered its first loss of the season to No. 45 Louisville on Friday, Jan. 23, in Raleigh, N.C. The Pack lost 4-3 after winning the doubles point, but only securing victories in two of the six singles matches. NC State falls to 2-1, and the Cardinals are now 3-0.
Senior Jay Weinacker and freshman Jaime PUlgar quickly downed the No. 44 nationally ranked doubles duo, Robert Rotaru and Alejandro Calligari, 8-1, at No. 2 to start the day, but the other two doubles matches went down to the wire. Senior Christian Welte and redshirt freshman Julian Sullivan battled back from a 5-2 deficit to an 8-8 tie against Austen Childs and Simon Childs. The pair lost in the tiebreaker, 7-4, at No. 1, leaving it up to the No. 3 doubles tandem. Junior Frideric Prandecki and sophomore David Chermak also went into a tie-breaker at the end, but came out with the win over SUmit Gupta and Viktor Maksimcuk, 9-8(3), to give the Pack the early lead.
Pulgar was the first to finish his singles match, taking down Rotaru, 6-3, 6-4, at No. 4. Senior Derek Stephens fell to No. 65 SImon CHilds, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, at No. 3. No. 55 Weinacker suffered his first loss of the season to No. 47 Austen Childs, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(2), and No. 124 Welte lost to Maksimcuk, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, at No. 2.
Robert Hall earned the win for Louisville, defeating Chermak 6-2, 0-6,7-6(9-7), at No. 5, and sophomore Eric Turner beat Calligari, 6-2, 7-6(12-10) at No. 6.
The Pack will next face Old Dominion on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. in Raleigh.
No. 45 Louisville d. No. 49 NC State, 4-3
Doubles
1. Childs/Childs (Louisville) d. Welte/Sullivan, 9-8(4)
2. Weinacker/Pulgar d. No. 44 Rotaru/Calligari (Louisville), 8-1
3. Chermak/Frideric Prandecki d. Maksimcuk/Sumit Gupta (Louisville), 9-8(3)
Order of finish: 2,1,3
Singles
1. No. 47 Austen Childs (Louisville) d. No. 55 Jay Weinacker, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(2)
2. Viktor Maksimcuk (Louisville) d. No. 124 Christian Welte, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5
3. No. 65 Simon Childs (Louisville) d. Derek Stephens, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
4. Jaime Pulgar d. Robert Rotaru (Louisville), 6-3, 6-4
5. Robert Hall (Louisville) d. David Chermak, 6-2, 0-6,7-6(9-7)
6. Eric Turner d. Alejandro Calligari (Louisville), 6-2, 7-6(12-10)
Order of finish: 4,3,1,2,5*,6
*Clinches the win
