No. 74 Men's Tennis Wins Seventh Straight Match

Friday, February 29

Tampa, Fla.

2:00 PM

Florida Atlantic

St. John's

2/29/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

Feb. 29, 2008

Final Stats

The no. 74 Florida Atlantic University men's tennis team won its seventh straight match on Friday afternoon as it defeated St. John's University 6-1. The Owls won all three doubles matches and won the top-four singles matches to improve to 8-2 on the year.

Marc Abdelnour teamed with Eddie Majcher at no. 1 doubles to earn an 8-3 win over Alex Svetlakov and Artem Vlasenko. The no. 2 doubles team of Olivier Sajous and Daniel Vardag also earned an 8-3 win as they defeated Gustavo Loza and Martin Kosut. Lawrence Harradine and Corey Smith went to a tie-breaker with Pavel Cerny and Derek Wallensteen before earning the 8-7 (7-5) win.

In singles play no. 2 Abdelnour and no. 6 Joshua Scholl only needed two sets to earn wins. No. 1 Olivier Sajous won in two sets but needed a 7-5 tiebreaker in the second set to win the match. Corey Smith took a 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 win at no. 3 over Gustavo Loza and Daniel Vardag won at no. 4 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.

#74 Florida Atlantic 6, St. John's 1
Singles competition
1. Olivier Sajous (FAU) def. Alex Svetlakov (SJU) 7-5, 7-6 (7-5)
2. Marc Abdelnour (FAU) def. Artem Vlasenko (SJU) 6-3, 6-3
3. Corey Smith (FAU) def. Gustavo Loza (SJU) 6-4, 1-6, 6-1
4. Daniel Vardag (FAU) def. Pavel Cerny (SJU) 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
5. Martin Kosut (SJU) def. Eddie Majcher (FAU) 6-2, 7-6 (8-6)
6. Joshua Scholl (FAU) def. Asaf Honig (SJU) 6-3, 6-2

Doubles competition
1. Marc Abdelnour/Eddie Majcher (FAU) def. Artem Vlasenko/Alex Svetlakov (SJU) 8-3
2. Olivier Sajous/Daniel Vardag (FAU) def. Martin Kosut/Gustavo Loza (SJU) 8-3
3. Lawrence Harradine/Corey Smith (FAU) def. Pavel Cerny/Derek Wallensteen (SJU) 8-7 (7-5)