Men's Tennis Weekly Release

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Bulls Rebound to Break Even at Dartmouth

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. UB compiled 17 wins in the three-day tournament against 15 losses. There was no team scoring in the eight-team tournament. Besides UB and host Dartmouth, Army, Amherst, Niagara, Colgate, Williams and Loyola Marymount were also in the field.

Doubles Teams Produce 2-1 Marks

Alexis Lluis

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 Mitch Zenaty (Fairport, NY/Fairport) and Juan Carlos Wynter (Puebla, Mexico/American School) picked up two victories. Lluis and Custers scored a 9-7 win over a combined tandem from Loyola Marymount and Colgate to highlight play. Their lone loss was in a tiebreaker as they fell to Army’s Daniel Shaffer and Josh Krieter. Zenaty and Wynter had an easier time in their two wins with an 8-3 win over a Loyola Marymount pair and an 8-5 victory against Williams.

Five Players Rack Up 2-1 Singles Records

Kirill Kolomyts

After posting just one singles win on Friday and then rallying to take five singles victories on Saturday, the Bulls doubled the total on Sunday as they took six more wins to finish play with a 12-12 mark. UB won all their Sunday matches in straight sets although 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. Kolomyts rolled to his two wins with a 6-1, 6-1 decision over Julian Camacho of Amherst and a “double bageling” of Williamsville native Ari Binder of Williams, 6-0, 6-0.