Men's Tennis Falls to Middle Tennessee 6-1

Saturday, January 26

Murfreesboro, Tenn.

1:00 PM ET

University of Louisville

Middle Tennessee State

January 26, 2002 | Men's Tennis

Jan. 26, 2002

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - The University of Louisville men's tennis team fell to the 37th-ranked Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 6-1 at Murfreesboro, Tenn.

The Blue Raiders won the doubles point as the ninth-ranked doubles tandem of Oliver Foreman and Robert Gustafsson began the match with an 8-1 victory over Louisville's Alex Sivertsen and Octavian Nicodim at the top seed. Louisville's Cody Conley and Paulo Carvalho lost to 27th-ranked team of Middle Tennessee's Daniel Klemetz and Kirk Jackson 8-4. At No. 3 doubles, Louisville's Matt Mayer and Brent McCombe topped Middle Tennessee's 51st-rated Trevor Short and Michael Staniak 8-4.

In singles action, Conley took twelfth-ranked Klemetz to three sets before falling 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (3) at No. 1. At the two and three spots, Sivertsen and Nicodim lost by scores of 6-4, 6-4 to Gustafsson and Foreman.

Carvalho lost to Staniak 6-1, 6-2 at No. 4, while Mayer fell to Jackson 6-1, 6-4 at the five spot. McCombe picked up the Cards' only singles point with his 6-2, 6-4 at No. 6.

Middle Tennessee improves to 2-0 on the season.

Louisville (3-1) will play host to No. 25 Kentucky on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 2:30 at the Louisville Tennis Center.

Louisville men's tennis results 1/26/02at Middle Tennessee
SINGLES1 - Daniel Klemetz (MT) d. Cody Conley (UL) 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(3)2 - Robert Gustafsson (MT) d. Alex Sivertsen (UL) 6-4, 6-43 - Oliver Foreman (MT) d. Octavian Nicodim (UL) 6-4, 6-44 - Michael Staniak (MT) d. Paulo Carvalho (UL) 6-1, 6-25 - Kirk Jackson (MT) d. Matt Mayer (UL) 6-1, 6-46 - Brent McCombe (UL) d. Rishan Kuruppu (MT) 6-2, 6-4
DOUBLES1 - Foreman/Gustafsson (MT) d. Sivertsen/Nicodim 8-12 - Klemetz/Jackson (MT) d. Conley/Carvalho 8-43 - Mayer/McCombe (UL) d. Short/Staniak (MT) 8-4