Men:
Jefferson City, Tenn. – The King University Men's Tennis team took on Carson Newman on the road, falling 4-3 in a comeback, with the Eagles snapping the comeback. King would fall early, losing two of the three doubles matches, with a score of 1-0 in favor of Carson Newman.
The singles matches were intense with Carson Newman getting the ones and threes wins, putting the score at 3-0. King was able to turn things around in the fours, fives, and sixes matches, winning all of them.
Ben Jones started it with a 6-2 set one win and a 6-2 set two win.
Rohan Chalisgaonkar then won his first set in a clean sheet 6-0, then won the second 6-4.
Lucas Machado rounded things up for the Tornado, getting a win with set one going 6-3 and set two 6-1.
The final deciding singles match came in the twos match, where
Bar Meshel won the first set 6-2. He would fall in the second set in extra points 7-5. The final set came down to a 10-6 loss for Meshel, falling short of the comeback victory for King.
Singles competition
- Danny Neleman (King) vs Louis Keenan (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0
- Bar Meshel (King) vs Leonard Baecker (CN) Carson Newman: 2-1
- Becklam Sylvester (King) vs Max Stollecker (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0
- Lucas Machado (King) vs Wade Donovan (CN) King: 2-0
- Rohan Chalisgaonkar (King) vs Giancarlo Rosario (CN) King: 2-0
- Ben Jones (King) vs Boris Jordanov (CN) King: 2-0
Doubles competition
- Machado/Neleman (King) vs Keenan/ Stollecker (CN) Carson Newman: 6-2
- Chalisgaonkar/Sylvester (King) vs Kolevski/ Rosario (CN) Carson Newman: 6-4
- Jones/ Meshel (King) vs Baecker/ Donovan (CN) King: 6-5
Up Next: The Tornado will be back on the road this week on Tuesday February, 17th at 2:30 pm at Johnson University.
Women:
Jefferson City, Tenn. – The King University Women's Tennis team took on Carson Newman, falling 7-0. After falling in the doubles, King fell 3-0. The Tornado would fall in every match, not finishing three of them by DNF.
Singles competition
- Deniz Aytun (King) vs Hala Awad (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0 DNF
- Shelby Tranchita (King) vs Maria del Mar Sadra Marti (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0
- Rani Malhoe (King) vs Sindija Manovska (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0 DNF
- Trinity Moore (King) vs Abinaya Sweeton (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0 DNF
- Ruth Robison (King) vs Mar Fraile (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0
- Lily Belcher (King) vs Andrea Aquiar (CN) Carson Newman: 2-0
Doubles competition
- Aytun/Tranchita (King) vs Baacke/ Sadra Marti (CN) Carson Newman: 6-2
- Moore/Robison (King) vs McBride/ Fraile (CN) Carson Newman: 4-4 DNF
- Sarah Hale/ Rani Malhoe (King) vs Awad/ Spiers (CN) Carson Newman: 6-0
Up Next: The Tornado will be back on the road this week on Tuesday February, 17th at 2:30 pm at Johnson University.
