The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater defeated Carthage Tennis on Friday night. The Warhawks swept the singles matches on their way to an 8-1 victory over the Firebirds.
The night started off with 3 close doubles matches. With all of the games finishing 8-6. UW-Whitewater's #1 pair of
Luke VanDonslear (Marion, Iowa/Linn Mar) & reuben Giorgio defeated their opponents, 8-6 as well as the #3 pair of
Drew Van Fossen (Germantown, Wis./Germantown) &
Theo Billson (Brighton, UK/BHASVIK) at #3 doubles.
The #2 doubles flight was the lone Firebirds win of the night, with the Carthage pair picking up the 8-6 win.
In the singles matches, the Warhawks went 6-0, but there were some close matches throughout the night.
Reuben Giorgio (Perth, Western Australia/Applecross) & Carthage's Myles Krzewinski had the longest match of the night. Krzewinski took the first set in a tight 6-4 battle. Giorgio stormed back in the second set, forcing a tiebreaker. Giorgio picked up that set after winning the tiebreaker 11-9. The match went into a third set tiebreaker, where Giorgio came out victorious 10-7 in a 2 hour long match.
Both
Drew Van Fossen (Germantown, Wis./Germantown) &
Tyler Nelson (Waunakee, Wis./Waunakee) had 90+ minute matches. At #3 singles, Nelson fell to Carthage's Elios Briand, 6-1 in the first set. However, after taking the second set 6-4, Nelson took the third set with a deciding 6-1 third set.
For Van Fossen, he opened up his #4 singles match strong, with a 6-0 first set against Carthage's Diego Silva. Silva fought back in the second set, taking the set in a tiebreaker 7-3. Van Fossen grabbed back the momentum in the third set, securing the match with a 6-1 victory.
In the exhibition matches of the night, UW-Whitewater went 2-0 in the doubles flights before splitting 2-2 with Carthage in the singles flights.
Full Results
Doubles
#1 - VanDonslear/Giorgio (UWW) def Briand/Krzewinski (CC): 8-6
#2 - Silveira/Ferruzzi (CC) def Vitali/Nelson (UWW): 8-6
#3 - Van Fossen/Billson (UWW) def Silva/Okino (CC): 8-6
Singles
#1 - VanDonslear (UWW) def Silveira (CC): 6-1, 6-3
#2 - Giorgio (UWW) def Krzewinski (CC): 4-6, 7-6(9), (10-7)
#3 - Nelson (UWW) def Briand (CC): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
#4 - Van Fossen (UWW) def Silva (CC): 6-0, 6(3)-7, 6-1
#5 - Billson (UWW) def Ferruzzi (CC): 6-4, 6-0
#6 - Ulrich (UWW) def Pimenta (CC): 6-4, 7-5
Exhibition
Doubles
Baldwin/Adkisson (UWW) def Czosnyka/Jaworski (CC): 8-7(1)
Aranda/Oaks (UWW) def Cayuela/Pimenta (CC): 8-7(2)
Singles
Vayuela (CC) def Oaks (UWW): 4-2, 4-1
Guillermo (UWW) def. Czosnyka (CC): 4-2, 3(5)-4, (10-8)
Lindwall (UWW) def Okino (CC): 4-2, 4-3(7)
Wehlan (CC) def Sprague (UWW): 4-1, 4-2
