Tulsa Men’s Tennis Team Claims Sixth Straight Match Victory with 4-3 Win Over UCF

Friday, March 10

Orlando, Fla.

5:30 p.m.

Tulsa

UCF

Tulsa Men’s Tennis Team Claims Sixth Straight Match Victory with 4-3 Win Over UCF

3/10/2017 9:34:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Don Tomkalski

After trailing 3-1, the Tulsa men's tennis team won the next three matches to pull out a 4-3 victory Friday night at the USTA National Campus. The win was Tulsa's sixth straight as the Hurricane improved to 10-7 on the season.

Six of Tulsa's seven losses this season has come against teams ranked among the top-25 nationally.

In the final match of the day, Tulsa's Mitchell Pritchard built a 5-2 lead at the No. 6 slot, but UCF's Kalman Boyd won the next four points to tie the match at six. Pritchard pulled out the tie-break 10-5 to cap the Tulsa come-from-behind victory.

UCF captured the doubles point for an early 1-0 lead, while Tulsa's Or Ram Harel picked up Tulsa's first win of the night in a two-set victory over Korey Lovett at the No. 1 position. Harel shutout Lovett in the first set 6-0 and finished the match with a 6-2 win in the second set.

Daniel Santos picked up Tulsa's second point, closing the Hurricane deficit to 3-2, with a 7-5, 7-6 (4) victory over Mariano Porter at the No. 5 singles position. Majed Kilani's win at the No. 3 position tied the team score at 3-3. Kilani went three sets to knot the score, winning the first set 6-4, dropping the second 6-2 and closed out the match with a 6-2 victory

Tulsa continues its two-match road trip to Florida with a 1:00 p.m. Sunday match against the USF Bulls in Tampa, Florida.

Singles
1.     Or Ram Harel (TU) def. Korey Lovett (UCF) 6-0, 6-2
2.     Majed Kilani (TU) def. Harrison Richmond (UCF) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
3.     Jarod Hing (Tulsa) lost to Chris Barrus (UCF) 6-4, 6-4
4.     Dominic Bechard (TU) lost to Dannyu Kerznerman (UCF) 6-1, 6-1
5.     Daniel Santos (TU) def. Mariano Porter (UCF) 6-5, 7-6 (4)
6.     Mitchell Pritchard (TU) def. Kalman Boyd (UCF) 6-7 (6), 6-1, 7-6 (5)
Doubles
1.     Kellerman, Okkie/Bechard (TU) vs. M. Portser/H. Richmond (UCF) Unfinished
2.     Kilani/Ram Harel (TU) lost to Lovett/Kerznerman (UCF) 6-4
3.     Hing/Santos (TU) lost to Barrus/Paya (UCF) 7-5