Owls Open Strong at LSU Invite
11/6/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
The Rice men's tennis team opened their final fall competition in strong fashion, winning nine of 14 opening matches at the LSU Fall Invitational at the LSU Tennis Complex in Baton Rouge on Friday.
The Owls captured four of seven doubles matches and then came back to take five of seven singles matches, including wins by Tommy Bennett, Jamie Malik, Emanuel Llamas and David Warren when each rallied after dropping the opening set.
Competition resumes on Saturday at 9 a.m.
Friday results:
First Round Doubles:
Trinh/Butsch (LSU) defeats Warren/Gustafsson (Rice) 6-3
Bennett/ Malik (Rice) defeats Colautti/Tso (Princeton) 6-4
Arias/Andry (LSU) defeats Hansen/Llamas (Rice) 6-3
Yablon/Munch (Rice) defeats Martell/Lam (A&M) 6-4
Second Round Doubles:
Warren/Gustafsson (Rice) defeats I. Van Cott/ Schick (Tulane) 6-0
Fryer/Fox (Denver) defeats Munch/Malik (Rice) 6-4
Llamas/Hansen (Rice) defeats (Princeton) 6-2
Round One Singles:
Adam Gustafsson (Rice) defeats David Fox (Denver) 7-5, 7-5
Tommy Bennett (Rice) defeats Max Lunkin (A&M) 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
Jamie Malik (Rice) defeats Tam Trinh (LSU) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
Alex Day (Princeton) defeats Jake Hansen (Rice) 7-5, 6-4
David Warren (Rice) defeats Jimmy Wasserman (Princeton) 0-6, 6-4, 6-1
Cameron Andry (LSU) defeats Henrik Munch (Rice) 7-6(5), 7-6(4)
Emanuel Llamas (Rice) defeats Ben Tsao (Princeton) 3-6 6-3 6-3.
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