Women Ag tennis falls to Weber
The Utah State men’s tennis team won its fourth match in a row Wednesday and the women’s team lost 5-2 against Weber on Thursday.
Almost every one of the men’s matches was close, as four of the six singles matches went to tiebreaks or three sets.
Joao Pinho won his No. 1 singles match after losing a close first set 5-7. He managed to eek out the next two sets, winning both 7-6 in tiebreaks.
Hannes Schenk and Dantley Young won their matches more handily. Schenk won at No. 2 6-4, 6-2 and Young won at No. 5 7-5, 6-0.
Roshan Rasekhi also won a close match 6-4, 7-6 with his second set tiebreaker taking twice as many points as usual 14-12. Brad Ferguson won his first set lost his second but then dominated in his third as he took the No. 4 singles point.
Jonas Tyden won his last two sets after losing his first to complete the sweep for the Aggies, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).
The Aggies took the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches winning those 8-4 and 8-5 respectively while Pinho and Rasekhi lost to the Wildcats No. 1 pair 8-3.
The women didn’t fair as well losing 5-2.
The doubles matches were all pretty close, No. 2 lost 8-6 after being up on serve until Weber broke to go up 6-5. Courtney Anderson and Andrea Barker lost to Weber’s No. 3 8-5.
At No. 1 doubles Lindsey Bennion and Carolyn Stephens won 9-8 in a tiebreaker after being down by one for most of the match. They were down 3-0 to start the tiebreak but came back to win 7-5.
In singles the Ags gained two points from their No.3 and No. 4 players Stephens and Anderson. Stephens won in straight sets 6-3, 6-1.
Anderson won her fifth straight singles match but it didn’t come easy as she went to three sets including a tiebreak in the second. Anderson got out of the gate quickly winning 6-1 then losing 6-7 in the second before putting it back together to win the set and the match 6-1.
The men will finish their regular season Saturday morning against Weber State at the Sports Academy before leaving next week to play at the Big West Conference tournament in California.
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