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Highlighted by four singles and doubles wins, the FGCU men’s tennis team completed the first step of the fall season as day one of the Bedford Cup comes to an end in Florida\u2019s capital city Thursday.<\/p>\nHighlighted by four singles and doubles wins, the FGCU men’s tennis team completed the first step of the fall season as day one of the Bedford Cup comes to an end in Florida\u2019s capital city Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday was a very challenging day for us as a team, which is a great thing,\u201d head coach C.J. Weber said. \u201cThere is a lot for us to learn from these opening rounds, but I\u2019m very proud of how our guys supported each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Representing the Eagles in Friday’s singles Round of 16 for the second-consecutive year are senior Dean Tsamas (Lexington, Ky.\/Henry Clay HS)<\/strong> and tournament No. 1 seed Jordi Vives (Barcelona, Spain\/IES Ferran Tallada\/USC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Earlier Thursday, Tsamas shut out Nubian Jean-Charles of Florida A&M, 6-0, 6-0, in the opening round, and Zach Goldberg of UCF, 7-6, 6-3, in the second round. Vives, who started off the day with a bye, breezed into the Round of 16 with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over UCF\u2019s Arjun Watane.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI think today was a good day for me, I played good tennis,\u201d Vives said. \u201cAs a team we had really good support for each other. Even though a couple matches didn\u2019t go our way I feel that my teammates learned a lot from today.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Junior Tianyu Bao (Tianjin, China\/Bayshore HS)<\/strong> advanced to the second round after swiftly beating John Nowak of FAU 6-2, 6-2 early Thursday morning. In the Round of 32 Bao put up a hard fight in three sets against UCF\u2019s Chris Barrus, but ultimately fell 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Thursday morning\u2019s Round of 62, the remaining five Eagles showed their opponents a good fight but ultimately fell short.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The team\u2019s lone true freshman, Adrian Reid (Lima, Peru\/Altair School)<\/strong>, began his collegiate career with a tough matchup against tournament No. 5 seed Grayson Goldin of FSU, who took the contest 6-1, 6-3. Redshirt freshman Chris Perrigan (Tallahassee, Fla.\/Maclay HS)<\/strong> played a close first set, but came up short in falling to Stetson\u2019s Laurynas Antropikas 7-5, 6-1. The team\u2019s other newcomer, Tulsa transfer Lucas Vaz (Sao Paulo, Brazil\/Colegio Fleming\/Tulsa)<\/strong>, went three sets with Reece Acree of UCF, but couldn\u2019t clinch the match, falling 6-1, 4-6, 6-0.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Senior Lance Lvovsky (Dania, Fla.\/Broward Virtual School\/Jacksonville)<\/strong> and Gabriel Echeverry (Popayan, Colombia\/Gimnasio Calibio)<\/strong> battled hard in their first-round matches but came up short. Lvovsky fought hard but was outplayed by Florida A&M\u2019s Admire Mushonga, who advanced with a 6-4, 6-4 win, while Echeverry faced UNF\u2019s Yannick Zurn, who claimed a 6-3, 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In doubles play, the eighth-seeded pair of Vives and Vaz took to the court for the first time together, effortlessly beating UCF\u2019s Chris Barrus and Reece Acree, 8-3, to secure a spot in tomorrow\u2019s Round of 16. Joining the two Vs in tomorrow\u2019s action are Echeverry and Reid, who will face Stetson\u2019s Hans Adrian Risend and Nathan Debut.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cJordi and Lucas played some great doubles against a very solid team today,\u201d Weber added. \u201cGabe and Adrian had a walkover in the firstround, so I know they are anticipating a very intense first match together tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Coming up short in doubles play were Perrigan and Bao, who fell to Stetson\u2019s Chester Espie and Simon Julin, 8-5, and Tsamas and Lvovsky who played a great match but fell 8-6 to Inaki Espindola and Riaan Du Toit from UCF.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Friday\u2019s Round of 16 singles draw, teammates Vives and Tsamas will face off for a spot in the quarterfinals. Also, in the doubles Round of 16 Vives and Vaz will take on a pair from Bethune-Cookman at 2:00 p.m., while Reid and Echeverry will face a duo from Stetson also at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to Dean and Jordi\u2019s matchup tomorrow,\u201d Weber continued, \u201cas I\u2019m sure they will be looking to fight hard against each other in the main draw.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n For complete coverage of FGCU men\u2019s tennis at the Bedford Cup, follow us on Twitter @FGCU_MTEN and visit www.FGCUAthletics.com where full recaps and results will be available at the end of each day.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Match Results<\/strong><\/p>\n Singles Round One<\/strong><\/p>\n Tiyanu Bao (FGCU) def. John Nowak (FAU) \u2013 6-2, 6-2<\/strong><\/p>\n Dean Tsamas(FGCU) def. Nubian Jean-Charles (FAMU) \u2013 6-0, 6-0<\/strong><\/p>\n Admire Mushonga (FAMU) def. Lance Lvovsky (FGCU) \u2013 6-4, 6-4<\/strong><\/p>\n Yannick Zurn (UNF) def. Gabe Echeverry (FGCU) \u2013 6-3, 6-3<\/strong><\/p>\n Laurynas Antropikas (Stetson) def. Chris Perrigan (FGCU) \u2013 7-5, 6-1<\/strong><\/p>\n Reece Acree (UCF) def Lucas Vaz (FGCU) \u2013 6-1, 4-6, 6-0<\/strong><\/p>\n Grayson Goldin (FSU) def. Adrian Reid (FGCU) \u2013 6-1, 6-3<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Singles Round Two<\/strong><\/p>\n Jordi Vives (FGCU) def. Arjun Watane (UCF) \u2013 6-4, 6-2<\/strong><\/p>\n Dean Tsamas (FGCU) def. Zach Goldberg (UNF) \u2013 7-6, 6-3<\/strong><\/p>\n Chris Barrus (UCF) def Tiyanu Bao (FGCU) \u2013 4-6, 6-3, 6-3<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Doubles Round of 32<\/strong><\/p>\n Vives\/Vaz (FGCU) def. Barrus\/Acree (UCF) 8-3<\/strong><\/p>\n Espie\/Julin (STET) def. Bao\/Perrigan (FGCU) 8-5<\/strong><\/p>\n Espindola\/Du Toit (UCF) def. Tsamas\/Lvovsky (FGCU) 8-6<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday, September 27: <\/strong><\/p>\n Singles Round of 16<\/strong><\/p>\n Doubles Round of 16<\/strong><\/p>\n Doubles Quarterfinals <\/strong><\/p>\n Singles Consolation <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, September 28: <\/strong><\/p>\n Singles Quarterfinals<\/strong><\/p>\n Singles Semifinals<\/strong><\/p>\n Doubles Semifinals<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday, September 29: <\/strong><\/p>\n Singles Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n Doubles Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Highlighted by four singles and doubles wins, the FGCU men’s tennis team completed the first step of the fall season as day one of the Bedford Cup comes to an… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}