Tuesday, February 19
Macon, GA
1:30 p.m.
Jacksonville State University
3
at
4
Mercer
Jax State Men Edged By Mercer, 4-3
2/19/2013 8:13:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Box Score
MACON, Ga. – The Jacksonville State men's tennis team dropped a hard-fought 4-3 decision to Mercer on Tuesday at the LeRoy Peddy Tennis Center on the MU campus.
JSU, who picked up two wins last Friday, fell to 2-6 on the season, while the Bears pocketed their first win of the season (1-7).
The match came down to the duel on court No. 6 as Felipe Watanabe fell in straight sets (6-2, 6-2) to MU's Austin Emmet. After the Bears claimed the doubles point by winning matches at No. 1 and No. 3. The JSU duo of Igor Santos and Felipe Wenzel moved to 4-2 on the season after turning back MU's tandem of Peter Tauchner and Joao Pagan, 8-5.
Santos and Wenzel carried that momentum into their singles action as both claimed wins over their opposition. Santos, who played in the No. 1 spot, moved to 2-0 on the season at that spot, won 6-3, 6-1 over Arnav Mohanty. Wenzel topped Vincent DeLise of MU – 6-3, 6-2 at No. 5.
Jax State's third point of the match was secured after Axel Sundberg split the first two sets with MU's Anderson Scarpa before ousting Scarpa in the third set, 6-2. JSU's Nenad Marcec fell in a three-set match with Arsav Mohanty. Marcec won the first set 6-3 before Mohanty bounced back to win the next two, 7-5, 6-1.
The Gamecocks return to action on Sunday, Feb. 24 against sixth-ranked Kentucky in a match played in Birmingham, Ala. Match time is set for 1:30 p.m.
MACON, Ga. – The Jacksonville State men's tennis team dropped a hard-fought 4-3 decision to Mercer on Tuesday at the LeRoy Peddy Tennis Center on the MU campus.
JSU, who picked up two wins last Friday, fell to 2-6 on the season, while the Bears pocketed their first win of the season (1-7).
The match came down to the duel on court No. 6 as Felipe Watanabe fell in straight sets (6-2, 6-2) to MU's Austin Emmet. After the Bears claimed the doubles point by winning matches at No. 1 and No. 3. The JSU duo of Igor Santos and Felipe Wenzel moved to 4-2 on the season after turning back MU's tandem of Peter Tauchner and Joao Pagan, 8-5.
Santos and Wenzel carried that momentum into their singles action as both claimed wins over their opposition. Santos, who played in the No. 1 spot, moved to 2-0 on the season at that spot, won 6-3, 6-1 over Arnav Mohanty. Wenzel topped Vincent DeLise of MU – 6-3, 6-2 at No. 5.
Jax State's third point of the match was secured after Axel Sundberg split the first two sets with MU's Anderson Scarpa before ousting Scarpa in the third set, 6-2. JSU's Nenad Marcec fell in a three-set match with Arsav Mohanty. Marcec won the first set 6-3 before Mohanty bounced back to win the next two, 7-5, 6-1.
The Gamecocks return to action on Sunday, Feb. 24 against sixth-ranked Kentucky in a match played in Birmingham, Ala. Match time is set for 1:30 p.m.
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