Bulls Drop Men's Tennis Clash to Binghamton

Marcelo Mazzetto

ITHACA, NY – The University at Buffalo men's tennis team dropped a 7-0 decision to America East member Binghamton Saturday afternoon at Cornell University's Reis Tennis Center. The Bulls are now 3-2 overall while the Bearcats improve to 4-1.

Although Binghamton swept all nine matches, the Bulls put up a strong effort, forcing two of the three doubles matches to tiebreakers. In the number one doubles match, UB's Kirill Kolomyts and Marcelo Mazzetto fell 7-1 in the tiebreaker to Gilbert Wong and Sven Vloedgraven. This was shortly after UB's number two tandem of Mitch Zenaty and Alexey Kalinin forced Alexandre Haggai and Arnav Jain into a tiebreaker, won by Binghamton, 7-5.

The Bulls continued the fight in singles but dropped each match. Kalinin forced Jain into a first set tiebreaker in the number three match while Alexis Lluis sent the number six match to a second set tiebreaker, falling 8-6 in the breaker, to Rafael Rodrigues.

UB opens a weekend homestand on Friday, February 20 against Duquesne at 5:00 pm at the Village Glen Tennis Center in Williamsville. The Bulls will also host Chicago State and Colgate next weekend.

Binghamton 7, Buffalo 0
Doubles
1 Gilbert Wong/Sven Vloedgraven (BU) d. Kirill Kolomyts/Marcelo Mazzetto (UB), 8-7 (1)
2 Alexandre Haggai/Arnav Jain (BU) d. Alexey Kalinin/Mitch Zenaty (UB), 9-8 (5)
3 Moshe Levy/Andreas Danielsson (BU) d. Kristof Custers/Guilherme Smaniotto (UB), 8-3

Singles
1 Moshe Levy (BU) d. Marcelo Mazzetto (UB), 6-2, 6-3
2 Sven Vloedgraven (BU) d. Kirill Kolomyts (UB), 6-2, 6-2
3 Arnav Jain (BU) d. Alexey Kalinin (UB), 7-6 (4), 6-3
4 Gilbert Wong (BU) d. Kristof Custers (UB), 6-4, 6-1
5 Alexandre Haggai (BU) d. Mitch Zenaty (UB), 6-2, 6-1
6 Rafael Rodrigues (BU) d. Alexis Lluis (UB), 6-1, 7-6 (6)