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Washburn tennis vs William Woods Jan. 27, 2024.
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Washburn WU (1-1)
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Winner Indianapolis UINDY (3-0)
Washburn WU
(1-1)
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Final
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Indianapolis UINDY
(3-0)
Winner

Match Recap: Men's Tennis |

No. 15 Washburn loses road contest to No. 7 Indianapolis, 4-3

INDIANAPOLIS, Il. -- No. 15 Washburn men's tennis lost its first match of the season on Friday afternoon 4-3 to No. 7 Indianapolis. The Ichabods (1-1) stay in Indiana and take on No. 8 Wayne State on Saturday.  

In doubles competition the Greyhounds (3-0) took the advantage early with Tommy Cecchetti and Sebastian Pjontek falling 6-1 at No. 2. Tim Hammes and Santiago Rendon came back from an early deficit to tie the set at 6 but the tiebreaker went to the Greyhounds 8-6 to give them the doubles point. Matthew Earle and Daniel Bird also needed a tiebreaker to settle their set, but also came up short, 9-7.  

In singles the Greyhounds got a point from the top court with Pjontek felling 6-3 in the first set and 6-0 in the second. Hammes gave Washburn its first point from No. 3 winning a close first set 7-5 and pulling away 6-3 in the second. Rendon tied the match winning a pair of 6-4 sets at No. 4.  

Bird stayed close early in the first set before dropping it 6-3, the second set ended with the same result to put Indianapolis ahead. Pavlos Parson lost his first set 6-1 at No. 1 but flipped the scores around in the second set to force a third. The third set was tied 4-4 but the Greyhounds took the final two points to secure the match. Cecchetti finished out his competition at No. 6 winning his third set 6-1 after winning 6-1 in the first set and falling 4-6 in the second. His result made it a 4-3 match.  

Doubles competition:  

  1. Zeuch, Tom/Derache, Mathieu (UI) def. Hammes, Tim/Rendon, Santiago (WU) 7-6(6) 

  1. Picaud, Louis/Momo, Erwan (UI) def. Cecchetti, Tommy/Pjontek, Sebastian (WU) 6-1 

  1. Simeonov, David/Franca, Pedro Romano (UI) def. Earle, Matthew/Bird, Daniel (WU) 7-6(7)  

Order of finish: 2, 1, 3  

Singles competition:  

  1. Zeuch, Tom (UI) def. Pjontek, Sebastian (WU) 6-3, 6-0 

  1. Simeonov, David (UI) def. Parson, Pavlos (WU) 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 

  1. Hammes, Tim (WU) def. Picaud, Louis (IU) 7-5, 6-3  

  1. Rendon, Santiago (WU) def. Derache, Mathieu (IU) 6-4, 6-4  

  1. Momo, Erwan (IU) def. Bird, Daniel (WU) 6-3, 6-3  

  1. Cecchetti, Tommy (WU) def. Escobar, Mauricio (IU) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1  

Order of finish: 1, 3, 4, 5, 2, 6  

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