WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Gardner-Webb men's tennis team played the #18 nationally ranked Wake Forest University losing 9-0 this evening to the Demon Deacons at the Wake Forest Indoor Tennis Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Gardner-Webb and Wake Forest decided to play eight singles matches and four doubles matches prior to this evenings meeting between the two schools.
GWU head coach Mike Griffith had this to say about this evenings match. "Wake Forest is an extremely good team year after year in the ACC and tonight they showed that. The guys had a really good effort tonight in singles but now it is on to preparing for the next match."
Two players who played really well tonight for the Runnin' Bulldogs in singles were red-shirt senior Korhan Ates who played the #102 ranked player in the country Maksin Kan to a three set match at the No. 5 singles position and red-shirt freshman Paul Hogan who also played his No. 8 singles match to three sets as well.
The Runnin' Bulldogs will look to bounce back in their next match as they make the short trip to Spartanburg, S.C. Wednesday, February 11th to face off against Wofford College.
Singles:
1. #52 Jon Ho (WF) def. Nikita Zverkov (GWU) 6-4, 6-3
2. Skander Mansouri (WF) def. Benjamin Kazsas (GWU) 6-4, 6-4
3. Christian Seraphim (WF) def. Yaroslav Prostakov (GWU) 6-3, 6-0
4. Keivon Tabrizi (WF) def. Ernest Alberch (GWU) 6-3, 6-2
5. #102 Maksim Kan (WF) def. Korhan Ates (GWU) 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 6-1
6. Sam Bloom (WF) def. Brendan Dempsey (GWU) 6-1, 6-4
7. Anthony Delcore (WF) def. Jonathan Walker (GWU) 6-2, 6-1
8. Matt Erdman (WF) def. Paul Hogan (GWU) 6-0, 1-6, 6-2
Doubles:
1. Anthony Delcore/Sam Bloom (WF) def. Nikita Zverkov/Ernest Alberch (GWU) 6-3
2. Keivon Tabrizi/Maksim Kan (WF) def. Korhan Ates/Brendan Dempsey (GWU) 6-1
3. Skander Mansouri/Matt Erdman (WF) def. Yaroslav Prostakov/Adam Schmidt (GWU) 6-3
4. Noah Rubin/Brendan Henry (WF) def. Paul Hogan/Michael Perry (GWU) 6-4