Men's Tennis Defeated by Ball State, 6-1

Guilherme Smaniotto

ORCHARD PARK, NY – The University at Buffalo men's tennis team dropped a 6-1 decision to visiting Ball State in Mid-American Conference action at the South Towns Tennis Center. The Bulls (7-9, 1-3 MAC) won the doubles point but fell in the six singles matches.

The Bulls scored the opening doubles point with a dramatic finish. After the Bulls and Cardinals (10-8, 2-0 MAC) split the top two matches, the Bulls relied on the number three doubles team of Guilherme Smaniotto and Alex Kalinin to pick up the point. The UB tandem rallied from a 6-5 deficit to the BSU duo of Shaun Bussert and Derek Carpenter to take the match, 9-7, and give the Bulls a 1-0 lead.

However, the Bulls were unable to maintain the momentum from winning the doubles point for the first time in eight matches and dropped the six singles contests, five in straight sets.

Four of the matches went to 6-4 decisions in the first set. Marcelo Mazzetto pushed Jose Perdomo to a third set after winning the second set, 6-4. Perdomo downed Mazzetto, 6-1, in the deciding set. Kirill Kolomyts lost a hard-fought match with a 7-4 decision in the second-set tiebreaker against Eduardo Pavia.

The Bulls close out the MAC portion of the schedule with an Easter Sunday (April 12) matchup with Northern Illinois at 10:00 am.

Ball State 6, Buffalo 1
Doubles
1 Marcelo Mazzetto/Kirill Kolomyts (UB) d. Eduardo Pavia/Jorge Rodriguez (BSU), 8-3
2 Jose Perdomo/Zane Smith (BSU) d. Octavian Stane/Mitch Zenaty (UB), 8-1
3 Guilherme Smaniotto/Alex Kalinin (UB) d. Shaun Bussert/Derek Carpenter (BSU), 9-7
Order of finish: 2, 1, 3
Singles
1 Jose Perdomo (BSU) d. Marcelo Mazzetto (UB), 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
2 Eduardo Pavia (BSU) d. Kirill Kolomyts (UB), 6-4, 7-6 (4)
3 Cliff Morrison (BSU) d. Alex Kalinin (UB), 6-4, 6-3
4 Andres Monroy (BSU) d. Kristof Custers (UB), 6-4, 6-0
5 Jorge Rodriguez (BSU) d. Octavian Stane (UB), 6-2, 7-5
6 Shaun Bussert (BSU) d. Tiago Gandum (UB), 6-1, 6-3
Order of finish: 3, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6