Men’s Tennis Falls at #35 Tulane

Sunday, March 6

New Orleans, LA

1:00 p.m.

University of Memphis

#35 Tulane University

Photo by: Lance Murphey

Mar 06, 2016 | Men's Tennis

Tigers fall to 8-4 on the year.

By: Tammy DeGroff

MEMPHIS – The University of Memphis men's tennis team (8-4, 1-1 American) tangled with conference foe Tulane (9-3, 1-0 American) on the road in New Orleans, but fell 7-0.

The two teams split two and three doubles to put the fate of the doubles point on the match at number one where the Memphis team of Kai Lemke and Louis Asser were facing the No. 27 ranked doubles team in the country of Dominik Koepfer and Chi-Shan Jao. The match was a fight all the way to a tiebreaker, before the Tulane team prevailed 7-6 in the tiebreaker.

Tulane then went up 2-0 with a 6-3, 6-4 win at number six and the battle between Andrew Watson and Koepfer, the No. 1 ranked singles player in the country, went all the way to the bring of a tiebreak before Koepfer made it 3-0 with a 7-5, 7-5 win at one singles.

The deciding point came at number two, where Ryan Peniston came back from a 6-4 first set loss to win the second set 6-0, but Tulane prevailed 6-4 in the third set for the victory.

#35 Tulane 7, #23 Memphis 0
Doubles
No. 1 -- #27 Dominik Koepfer/Chi-Shan Jo def. Kai Lemke/Louis Asser (Memphis), 7-6
No. 2 – Felix Rauch/Ryan Peniston (Memphis) def. Constantin Schmitz/Sebastian Rey, 6-4
No. 3 – Alex Van Cott/Ian Van Cott def. Andrew Watson/Shakeel Manji, 6-2
Singles
No. 1 -- #1 Dominik Koepfer def. Andrew Watson (Memphis), 7-5, 7-5
No. 2 – Constantin Schmitz def. #57 Ryan Peniston (Memphis), 6-4, 0-6, 6-4
No. 3 – Sebastian Rey def. Chris Patzanovsky (Memphis), 7-6, 7-5
No. 4 – Chi-Shan Jao def. Kai Lemke (Memphis, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
No. 5 -- Alex Van Cott def. Felix Rauch (Memphis), 3-6, 7-5 4-3 wr
No. 6 – Tyle rSchick def. Shakeel Manji (Memphis), 6-3 6-4