Tulsa Men’s Tennis Team Downs Wichita State 5-2

Sunday, March 14

Case Tennis Center

1:00 PM

Tulsa

#41 Wichita State

Photo by: Campbell Rogerson

Tulsa Men’s Tennis Team Downs Wichita State 5-2

3/14/2021 8:20:00 PM | Men's Tennis

TULSA, Okla. –– The 40^th- ranked Tulsa men's tennis team captured a 5-2 victory over the Wichita State Shockers Sunday afternoon at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

Tulsa improved to 8-6 on the season, while the Shockers fell to 9-5.

The Hurricane took a 1-0 lead with doubles wins by the No. 1 team of Connor Di Marco and Kody Pearson and the No. 3 team of Ezequiel Santalla and Daniel Siddall.

Wichita State tied the score 1-1 with a win at the No. 6 singles spot, but Tulsa won four straight matches at No. 3, 5, 1 and 4 to take the victory. Connor D Marco put the Hurricane back ahead 2-1 at the No. 3 spot with a 6-2, 6-2 win. Juan Pablo Cenoz at No. 5, Kody Pearson at No. 1 and Stefan Hampe at No. 4 gave the Hurricane a 5-1 advantage.

Cenoz won 7-5, 6-1 and Pearson won with identical set scores of 6-4. Hampe went to a tiebreaker in the first set for a 7-6 win and won the second set 6-3 to give Tulsa its fifth win.

Tulsa will be back in action tomorrow at the Case Tennis Center for a 1 p.m. matchup against the SEC's LSU Tigers.

#40 TULSA 5, #48 WICHITA STATE 2
SINGLES
#1       #67 Kody Pearson (Tulsa) def. Marius Frosa (WSU) 6-4, 6-4
#2       Murkel Dellien (WSU) def. Ezequiel Santalla (Tulsa) 7-5, 6-2
#3       Connor Di Marco (Tulsa) def. Stefan Latinovic (WSU) 6-2, 6-2
#4       Stefan Hampe (Tulsa) def. Nicolas Acevedo (WSU) 7-6 (6), 6-3
#5       Juan Pablo Cenoz (Tulsa) def. Orel Ovil (WSU) 7-5. 6-1
#6       Luke Mrsic (WSU) def. Daniel Siddall (Tulsa) 6-2, 6-2
Order of Finish: 6, 3, 5, 1, 4, 2

DOUBLES
#1       #29 Connor Di Marco/Kody Pearson (Tulsa) def. Murkel Dellien/Marius Frosa (WSU) 6-2
#2       Orel Ovil/Luke Mrsic (WSU) def. Stefan Hampe/Boriss Kamdem (Tulsa) 6-0
#3       Ezequiel Santalla/Daniel Siddall (Tulsa) def. Nicolas Acevedo/Stefan Latinovic (WSU) 7-5
Order of Finish: 2, 1, 3