Cowboys Drop Match at Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The No. 38 Oklahoma State men’s tennis team fell to No. 10 Louisville, 6-1, Saturday at Louisville’s Bass-Rudd Rudd Tennis Center, dropping its record to 3-4 on the year.
The Cowboys, who beat Western Michigan, 5-2, in Louisville Friday night, got in a hole early as they lost all three doubles matches to go down 1-0.
In singles play, Oklahoma State lost the first five matches to seal the final result before No. 65 Anton Bobytskyi pulled out a close three-set upset win over Louisville’s 49th-ranked Simon Childs to make the final score 6-1, Louisville.
Trevor Horstmann saw his first dual match action as a Cowboy, falling to Louisville’s Chidi Gabriel at the No. 6 spot, 6-1, 6-3.
Oklahoma State resumes competition March 10 when it faces Hawai’i in Las Vegas, Nev.
No. 10 Louisville 6, No. 38 Oklahoma State 1
DOUBLES
No. 1 – Simon Childs/Alejandro Calligari (UL) def. #18 Aleksey Bessonov/Oleksandr Nedovyesov () 8-3
No. 2 – #55 Austen Childs/Chidi Gabriel (UL) def. Eric West/Anton Bobytskyi () 8-6
No. 3 – Viktor Maksimcuk/ Sumit-Prakash Gupta (UL) def. Maxi Kuhn/Trevor Horstmann () 8-6
Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3
SINGLES
No. 1 – #60 Austen Childs (UL) def. #10 Oleksandr Nedovyesov () 7-6, 6-0
No. 2 – #65 Anton Bobytskyi () def. #49 Simon Childs (UL) 6-7, 7-6, 11-9
No. 3 – Viktor Maksimcuk (UL) def. Aleksey Bessonov () 6-3, 6-0
No. 4 – Alejandro Calligari (UL) def. Eric West () 6-2, 6-3
No. 5 – Andrew Carter (UL) def. Maxi Kuhn () 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
No. 6 – Chidi Gabriel (UL) def. Trevor Horstmann () 6-1, 6-3
Order of Finish: 4, 3, 1, 6, 5, 2
Updated 02-28-2010
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