Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham men's tennis squad traveled down to Florida ahead of the Atlantic 10 Championships, schedule from April 25-28 in Orlando, warming up for the championship with a 4-3 win over Eastern Florida at the Titan Tennis Center.
The match opened with the Titans, ranked seventh in the latest NJCAA Division I poll, taking the doubles points, winning two of the three doubles matches.
Lutwin de Macar and
Alex Makatsaria got things of on the right for the Rams with a 6-1 win at third doubles over Sebastian Bunster and Fabricio Galvan but Fordham dropped first and second doubles.
In singles action, de Macar knotted the match at one for Fordham with a straight set win over Galvan at fourth singles, 6-3, 6-1. But Adriel Azucey made it 2-1 for the Titans with a straight set win over
Finn Kemper at third singles.
Fabian Mauritzson tied things up again with a 6-3, 7-5 decision over Frederik Oervad at first singles before
Jofre Segarra gave the Rams a 3-2 lead with a victory over Bunster at the sixth position, Segarra dropped the first set to Bunster, 6-4, but came back to win the next two sets by identical 6-3 scores.
Eastern Florida's Nils Michel rebounded from losing the first set of second singles to
Max Green, 6-3, to win the next two, 6-3 and 6-4, meaning the match came down to the fifth singles spot where
Alex Makatsaria lost the first set to Nicholas Mora, 6-4, but stormed back to take the second, 6-2, and the third, 6-1, to lead the Rams to the win.
Fordham, the seventh seed, will open the 2019 Atlantic 10 Championship on Thursday, April 25, by taking on tenth-seeded Saint Louis, at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., at 12:00 p.m.
