University of Louisville
Wake Forest
Men's Tennis Edged by Wake Forest 4-3
February 27, 2009 | Men's Tennis
Feb. 27, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - - The No. 33 University of Louisville men's tennis team took an early lead, but couldn't hang on as No. 30 Wake Forest edged the Cards 4-3 Friday evening at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center.
"We hurt tonight, but we will come out and work hard tomorrow," said U of L assistant coach Rodrigo daSilva. "We have another challenge waiting for us when No. 13 Texas A&M comes to town Sunday."
The Cards opened the match by taking the doubles point. The No. 1 slot in doubles featured a clash of two top-10 tandems with Wake Forest's top-ranked Cory Parr and Steve Forman prevailing 8-4 over Louisville's sixth-ranked Austen Childs and Simon Childs. Louisville's Viktor Maksimcuk and Robert Hall defeated Wake's Andrew Brasseaux and Joost Vogel 8-6 at the No. 3.seed. The doubles point was decided at the No. 2 slot where the Cards' Robert Rotaru and Alejandro Calligari pulled out an 8-6 win over Iain Adkinson and Jonathan Wolff.
In singles action, Louisville went up 3-0 as Maksimcuk and Simon Childs picked up straight set wins at Nos. 2 and 3. Maksimcuk beat Atkinson 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2 and Simon Childs topped Forman 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3.
The Demon Deacons roared back. At the top seed, Parr, No. 37 in the ITA singles rankings defeated No. 46 Austen Childs 6-2, 7-6. Brasseaux beat Rotaru 6-4, 6-4 at No. 5 to make the score 3-2.
The final two courts featured three-set battles at Nos. 5 and 6. In the six spot, Louisville's Hall defeated Wake Forest's David Hopkins 6-2 in the first set, but Hopkins came back to win the next two sets 6-4,7-5, knotting the score at 3-3. The match came down to the No. 4 seed where Calligari beat Wolff 6-2 in the first set, but Wolff edged Calligari 7-5, 7-5 in the next two for the win.
"This loss was really disappointing," said U of L head coach Rex Ecarma. "We felt like we control after winning the doubles point and going up 3-0. I can't think of that ever happening before in the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center. This was an emotional match and very challenging. We were playing in front of 200 fans here and it would have been a great win."
The Cardinals (10-2) are back in action Sunday when they play host to 13th ranked Texas A&M at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center.
No. 30 Wake Forest 4 - No. 33 Louisville 3
Feb. 27, 2009 - Bass-Rudd Tennis Center
Singles
1 - #37 Cory Parr (WF) d. #46 Austen Childs (UL) 6-2, 7-6
2 - Viktor Maksimcuk (UL) d. Iain Atkinson (WF) 6-2, 6-3
3 - Simon Childs (UL) d. Steve Forman (WF) 6-4, 6-4
4 - Jonathan Wolff (WF) d. Alejandro Calligari (UL) 2-6, 7-5, 7-5
5 - Andrew Brasseaux (WF) d. Robert Rotaru (UL) 6-4, 6-4
6 - David Hopkins (WF) d. Robert Hall (UL) 2-6, 6-4, 7-5
Order of Finish: 2,3,1,5,6,4 Doubles
1- #1 Parr/Forman (WF) d. #6 Childs/Childs (UL) 8-4
2 - #33 Rotaru/Calligari (UL) d. Joost Vogel/Brasseux (WF) 8-6
3 - Maksimcuk/Hall (UL) d. Adkinson/Wolff (WF) 8-6 Order of Finish: 1,3,2
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