Bulls Grounded at Toledo, 6-1

Kirill Kolomyts

TOLEDO, OH – The University at Buffalo men's tennis team lost a hard-fought match Saturday afternoon to Mid-American Conference foe Toledo, 6-1, at the UT Varsity Courts. Four of the six singles matches were decided in three sets.

The Bulls captured one match in the doubles competition but were unable to claim the point. UB’s number three tandem of Octavian Stane and Alex Kalinin scored a 7-4 tiebreaker win to defeat Jayson Miller and Aleksander Elezovic.

Kirill Kolomyts scored the lone point for UB in singles play with his 6-3, 6-4 win over Sven Burus in the number two match.

Four of the six singles matches went three sets with Toledo sweeping all four. Marcelo Mazzetto, at number one, Kalinin, at three, and Kristof Custers, at four, went three full sets as all three Bulls were defeated. Stane, playing in the number five match, lost to Gursher Harika in a super-tiebreaker.

The Bulls (7-7, 1-1 MAC) travel to Western Michigan to complete the weekend on Sunday. Match time is slated for 11:00 am in Kalamazoo.

Toledo 6, Buffalo 1
Doubles
1 Jared Miller/Nuthavit Likitkumchorn (UT) d. Marcelo Mazzetto/Kirill Kolomyts (UB), 8-5
2 Sven Burus/Robbie McCallum (UT) d. Mitch Zenaty/Guilherme Smaniotto (UB), 8-3
3 Octavian Stane/Alex Kalinin (UB) d. Jayson Miller/Aleksander Elezovic (UT), 8-7 (4)
Singles
1 Jared Miller (UT) d. Marcelo Mazzetto (UB), 3-6, 7-6, 6-1
2 Kirill Kolomyts (UB) d. Sven Burus (UT), 6-3, 6-4
3 Nuthavit Likitkumchorn (UT) d. Alex Kalinin (UB), 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
4 Aleksander Elezovic (UT) d. Kristof Custers (UB), 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
5 Gursher Harika (UT) d. Octavian Stane (UB), 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7)
6 Jayson Miller (UT) d. Guilherme Smaniotto (UB), 6-2, 6-1