Sunday, February 27
Tempe, Arizona
10 AM
Rice University
1
vs
4
USF
USF Downs Owls 4-1
2/27/2022 6:34:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Return home to host Texas A&M Corpus Christi next Sunday.
In Brief: Haoyuan Huang completed an undefeated weekend in singles, but Rice could not carry over the momentum of an emotional win on Sunday as USF took a 4-1 win in Tempe, Arizona.
Doubles: USF raced to the doubles point by dropping only three games at the first two lines.
Singles: In need of a rally, Rice took four of six first sets of singles, two of them in tiebreak sets, but USF held its ground to close out its two first set leads along with one three-set win. Huang put the Owls on the board with a 7-6, 6-1 win over Ivan Yatsuk.
Efe Ustundag: We came out a little flat in doubles and maybe some of the emotion we expended yesterday left us a little flat. I was proud of the way we came back in singles, taking four of six first sets—two with tiebreakers. But USF is a very good team, a future conference opponent, and an NCAA qualifier last year. This was a quality set of opponents and it gave us our first chance to handle playing back to back to back. Arizona State might have been unranked, but their early schedule was very tough and there are a lot of close losses to ranked teams. I was proud of our effort overall. It was disappointing to have two tough losses, but I think we learned a lot and we definitely grew as a unit. We showed the fight to get matches to third sets and gave ourselves some chances. Now we need to work on our physicality in order to be able to take those third sets.
Up Next: The Owls return home to host Texas A&M Corpus Christi on March 6.
Doubles: USF raced to the doubles point by dropping only three games at the first two lines.
Singles: In need of a rally, Rice took four of six first sets of singles, two of them in tiebreak sets, but USF held its ground to close out its two first set leads along with one three-set win. Huang put the Owls on the board with a 7-6, 6-1 win over Ivan Yatsuk.
Efe Ustundag: We came out a little flat in doubles and maybe some of the emotion we expended yesterday left us a little flat. I was proud of the way we came back in singles, taking four of six first sets—two with tiebreakers. But USF is a very good team, a future conference opponent, and an NCAA qualifier last year. This was a quality set of opponents and it gave us our first chance to handle playing back to back to back. Arizona State might have been unranked, but their early schedule was very tough and there are a lot of close losses to ranked teams. I was proud of our effort overall. It was disappointing to have two tough losses, but I think we learned a lot and we definitely grew as a unit. We showed the fight to get matches to third sets and gave ourselves some chances. Now we need to work on our physicality in order to be able to take those third sets.
Up Next: The Owls return home to host Texas A&M Corpus Christi on March 6.
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