Tuesday, February 5, 2008
TCU men’s tennis downs Idaho
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The No. 63 TCU men's tennis team defeated Idaho by a score of 5-2 in the home opener at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center on Monday. The Horned Frogs improved to 3-0 on the season, while Idaho dropped to 4-3 overall.
"I thought we could've played a little better today," said TCU head coach Dave Borelli. "We started well and just let down in a couple of matches, but it's good for us to learn here today in this match. I thought Idaho played very well and they have some good players. We had four freshmen playing, so it's just a learning process that once we win the first set, it isn't over, and you have to be ready to come out and play the second."
The men won all three doubles matches in exciting fashion, beginning with the 44th-ranked duo of Kriegler Brink and Cosmin Cotet fighting to a 9-7 win over Idaho's Andrey Potapkin and Stanislov Glukhov. The duo of Caleb Bulls and Adrian Simon jumped out to a 5-0 lead at the No. 2 position before the Idaho pair of Robert Chalkley and Timothy Huynh pulled to within 5-4. The Frogs stormed back, however, to take an 8-5 decision. The TCU pair of Zach Nichols and Jack Seider completed the sweep with a 9-8(6) win over Andrew Dobbs and Hugh McDonald.
Brink, a junior from Gauteng, South Africa, recorded his third consecutive straight-sets victory of the season with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Chalkley at the No. 3 spot.
Cotet, ranked No. 27 nationally, moved to 3-0 on the season with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Potapkin at the No. 1 position, while freshman Casey Powers also remained undefeated with a 7-6, 6-0 win over McDonald at No. 6 to clinch the match for the Frogs.
Fellow freshman Zach Nichols pushed his singles mark to 3-0 on the year with a 6-3, 7-6(4) defeat of Huynh at the No. 4 position.
The Frogs will return to action on Wednesday, as they will host UT-Arlington at 2 p.m. and Abilene Christian at 6 p.m.
No. 63 TCU (3-0) def. Idaho (4-3), 5-2
SINGLES
1. No. 27 Cosmin Cotet (TCU) def. Andrey Potapkin (Idaho) 6-4, 6-4
2. Stanislov Glukhov (Idaho) def. No. 54 Adrian Simon (TCU) 1-6, 6-3, 7-5
3. Kriegler Brink (TCU) def. Robert Chalkley (Idaho) 6-1, 6-2
4. No. 94 Zach Nichols (TCU) def. Timothy Huynh (Idaho) 6-3, 7-6(4)
5. Andrew Dobbs (Idaho) def. Jack Seider (TCU) 1-6, 6-1, 6-1
6. Casey Powers (TCU) def. Hugh McDonald (Idaho) 7-5, 6-0
Order of Finish: 3, 5, 1, 6*, 4, 2
DOUBLES
1. No. 44 Brink/Cotet (TCU) def. Potapkin/Glukhov (Idaho) 9-7
2. Bulls/Simon (TCU) def. Chalkley/Huynh (Idaho) 8-5
3. Nichols/Seider (TCU) def. Dobbs/McDonald (Idaho) 9-8(6)
Order of Finish: 1, 2*, 3
*Clinching point
Source: TCU
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Sorry, couldn't help it. Um, Go Frogs!!
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