Men’s Tennis Sees Streak Snapped at UCF

Sunday, March 31

Orlando, Fla.

6:00 PM

Florida Atlantic

UCF

2019 FAU Men's Tennis @ Miami Mehdi Laalej 2019

Photo by: JC Ridley/Owlpix.com

3/31/2019 10:14:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University men's tennis team traveled to play No. 33 UCF on Sunday night, but the Knights ended the Owls' seven-match winning streak at the UCF Collegiate Tennis Center at the USTA National Campus. Still, FAU is 15-8 heading into the backstretch of the regular season, with three more road matches next weekend, then the 2019 Conference USA Championship.

Notables:

In doubles play, Kirac Bekisoglu and Thomas Guy were a point away from clinching the match at No. 3, up 5-3, but the Knights (11-9) wrapped the other two courts first
UCF clinched with singles wins at No. 1, No. 4 and No. 5
Bekisoglu, at No. 2, took his opponent to three by winning the opening set, but fell in the super tiebreaker (6-4, 3-6, 0-1 (3-10))
Also playing out to the extra set was No. 3 Mehdi Laalej, who won set No. 2 and then had the full third-set tiebreak (3-6, 6-1, 4-6). That snapped a 13-match winning streak for the grad student

Full Results:
UCF 7, FAU 0
Doubles
1. #54 Bogdan Pavel/Trey Hilderbrand (UCF) def. #69 Jason Legall/Ignacio Garcia (FAU) 6-4
2. Gabriel Decamps/Juan Pablo Mazzuchi (UCF) def. Mehdi Laalej/Gabriel Sidney (FAU) 6-2
3. Manoel Alencar/Mikhail Sokolovskiy (UCF) vs. Kirac Bekisoglu/Thomas Guy (FAU) 3-5, unfinished

Singles
1. #38 Gabriel Decamps (UCF) def. Jason Legall (FAU) 6-1, 6-1
2. Alan Rubio (UCF) def. Kirac Bekisoglu (FAU) 4-6, 6-3, 10-3
3. Trey Hilderbrand (UCF) def. Mehdi Laalej (FAU) 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
4. Bogdan Pavel (UCF) def. Gabriel Sidney (FAU) 6-4, 6-2
5. Juan Pablo Mazzuchi (UCF) def. Ignacio Garcia (FAU) 7-5, 6-1
6. Mikhail Sokolovskiy (UCF) def. Alvaro Fernandez Horta (FAU) 7-6 (7-0), 6-1

What's Next

FAU will take part in a Conference USA showcase of sorts this upcoming weekend, at Charlotte. Friday, the Owls play Old Dominion; Saturday at 3 p.m., the host 49ers; and Sunday, Middle Tennessee. That will wrap the regular season.