Bulls Complete Play at Dartmouth Invitational

Alexis Lluis

HANOVER, NH – After starting play on Friday with just one win in eight matches, the University at Buffalo men’s tennis team rebounded to go 16-8 in the final two days of the Dartmouth Invitational Tournament completed Sunday afternoon.

There was no team scoring in the eight-team tournament. Besides UB and host Dartmouth, Army, Amherst, Niagara, Colgate, Williams and Loyola Marymount were in the field.

On Friday, the lone win by the Bulls was secured by Mitch Zenaty (Fairport, NY/Fairport) as he defeated Jamie Pellechi of Colgate, 6-3, 6-0.

The Bulls picked up five singles wins and five doubles wins on Saturday. Two Bulls doubles tandems, Alexis Lluis (Mexico City, Mexico/Colegio Americano de Tabasco) and Kristof Custers (Balen, Belguim/European School of Mol) and Zenaty and Juan Carlos Wynter (Puebla, Mexico/American School) picked up two victories. Lluis and Custers scored a 9-7 win over their opponents from Loyola Marymount to highlight play.

On Sunday, the Bulls concluded play with six singles wins. Marcelo Mazzetto (Sao Paulo, Brazil/Colegio Carlos Magno) needed a third-set super-tiebreaker to defeat Austin Chafetz of Amherst, 6-4, 2-6, 10-4. Lluis, Mazzetto, Wynter, Kirill Kolomyts (Moscow, Russia/Moscow High School 155) and Eric Rothstein (Phoenixville, PA/Great Valley) each went 2-1 in singles play over the weekend.

The Bulls are next in action at the ITA Regionals in New Haven, CT beginning on Thursday, October 16.