Tulsa Drops Hard Fought NCAA First Round Match to No. 25 Texas A&M

Friday, May 6

Waco, Texas

3:00 PM

Tulsa

Texas A&M

Photo by: Bill Powell

Tulsa Drops Hard Fought NCAA First Round Match to No. 25 Texas A&M

5/6/2022 6:31:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

TULSA, Okla. ― The Tulsa men's tennis team clawed its way back, forcing third sets in four of the six singles matches, but fell to No. 25 Texas A&M in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday evening in Waco Texas. The Hurricane finish the season 15-12.

After winning the doubles point, the Aggies claimed consecutive victories at No. 2 and No. 3 singles to take a 3-0 advantage. Tulsa continued to battle, as Kody Pearson and Adham Gaber, who both dropped their first sets, climbed back to force a third set.

Callum Gale and Connor Di Marco, who each won their first sets 7-5, also were headed for a third set.

Gale rolled into the third set, going up 3-0 before winning 6-2 to give Tulsa its lone point of the match with a victory at No. 6 singles.

Gaber, who forced a third set tiebreaker after being down 4-5, was edged out by Texas A&M's Giulio Perego 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3).

While Tulsa's season comes to an end as a team, Kody Pearson will represent the Hurricane at the 2022 NCAA Singles Championship, starting on May 23^rd in Champaign, Illinois.

No. 25 Texas A&M 4, No. 44 Tulsa 1
Singles:
1. #32 Noah Schachter (TAMU) vs. #47 Kody Pearson (TLS) 6-3, 4-6, 4-4, unfinished
2. Raphael Perot (TAMU) def. Stefan Hampe (TLS) 6-0, 6-3
3. Guido Marson (TAMU) def. Ezequiel Santalla (TLS) 6-3, 7-5
4. Giulio Perego (TAMU) def. Adham Gaber (TLS) 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3)
5. Luke Casper (TAMU) vs. Connor Di Marco (TLS) 5-7, 7-5, 3-2, unfinished
6. Callum Gale (TLS) def. Stefan Storch (TAMU) 7-5, 3-6, 6-2

Doubles:
1. #14 Kenner Taylor/Noah Schachter (TAMU) vs. #44 Connor Di Marco/Kody Pearson (TLS) 5-4, unfinished
2. Stefan Storch/Austin Abbrat (TAMU) def. Adham Gaber/Ezequiel Santalla (TLS) 6-3
3. Raphael Perot/Giulio Perego (TAMU) def. Daniel Siddall/Tom Thelwall-Jones (TLS) 6-3

Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (2,3,6,4)