Bulls Open Southern Trip With 4-3 Loss to Owls

Marcelo Mazzetto

KENNESAW, GA – The University at Buffalo men’s tennis team dropped a 4-3 decision to Kennesaw State on the first day of their three-match weekend swing through Georgia and Alabama.

UB (7-3) dropped the opening doubles point to the Owls (3-4), although the number one tandem of Marcelo Mazzetto and Kirill Kolomyts scored an 8-2 win over Michael Langel and Tyler Mills.

Mazzetto, Alex Kalinin and Octavian Stane scored singles wins with straight set victories. Kalinin won his match with a second-set tiebreaker at number three while Stane won a first-set tiebreaker at number five.

The match was decided at fourth singles as Kristof Custers and Langel played three sets. After dropping the opening set, 6-2, Custers came back to win the second set, 6-4, and force a deciding third set. The match went to a tiebreaker in the third set but Custers could not gain the momentum, falling 7-4 in the tiebreaker to end the match.

The Bulls travel to south to Macon for tomorrow’s match at Mercer. Start time is slated for 1:00 pm.

Kennesaw State 4, Buffalo 3
Doubles
1 Marcelo Mazzetto/Kirill Kolomyts (UB) d. Michael Langel/Tyler Mills (KSU), 8-2
2 Andrew Suesserman/Simon Janik (KSU) d. Mitch Zenaty/Alex Kalinin (UB), 8-6
3 Justin Suesserman/Lawrence Washington (KSU) d. Octavian Stane/Kristof Custers (UB), 8-3
Order of finish: 1, 3, 2
Singles
1 Marcelo Mazzetto (UB) d. Lawrence Washington (KSU), 6-3, 6-3
2 Tyler Mills (KSU) d. Kirill Kolomyts (UB), 6-3, 6-2
3 Alex Kalinin (UB) d. Simon Janik (KSU), 6-1, 7-6 (3)
4 Michael Langel (KSU) d. Kristof Custers (UB), 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
5 Octavian Stane (UB) d. Andrew Suesserman (KSU), 7-6 (2), 6-3
6 Ryan Bouttell (KSU) d. Guilherme Smaniotto (UB), 6-4, 7-6 (3)
Order of finish: 2, 1, 3, 6, 5, 4