Rozenstein Battles to No. 3 Singles Win as QU Men's Tennis Falls, 6-1, to Northern Illinois

Monday, March 14

Casselberry, FL

11 AM

Quinnipiac University

Northern Illinois University

Rozenstein Battles to No. 3 Singles Win as QU Men's Tennis Falls, 6-1, to Northern Illinois

3/14/2016 4:01:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: QU Sports Information

CASSELBERRY, Florida – Julian Rozenstein (Marlboro, New Jersey) picked up the only win of the afternoon for the Quinnipiac men's tennis team as they fell in the first game of their Florida trip, 6-1, to the Northern Illinois Huskies on Monday afternoon.

Quinnipiac falls to 6-4 on the season with the loss while Northern Illinois improves to 11-5 on the season.

Rozenstein's win was his 21^st of the season, 15^th in singles as he ties Kyle Alper (Dix Hills, New York) for the most singles wins on the team this season. Rozenstein has won a singles match in four of the six matches the Bobcats have played this spring.

Northern Illinois swept the doubles point to take an early 1-0 lead. Louis-Philippe Hamel and Tom Hjertonsson teamed up at No. 3 doubles to win the first match of the day over Kei Ezaka (Ojai, California) and Alper, 6-1. Kevin Daun and Georg Lundkvist followed that up with a win at No. 2 doubles over Luke Roser (Bernardsville, New Jersey) and Freddie Zaretsky (Fair Lawn, New Jersey) to take the doubles point with a 6-4 win. Carlos Manzanas and Austin Russell finished off the sweep by defeating Jonas Kuwert (Jesteberg, Germany) and Willem van Biezen (Warmond, The Netherlands), 6-4.

Manzanas and Ezaka were the first singles match of the day to finish up, with Manzanas winning the No. 1 singles match, 6-1, 6-2. Russell followed that win up shortly after with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Alper. Hamel secured the match for the Huskies with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Zaretsky. At No. 4 singles, Hjertonsson and Kuwert battled but Kuwert was edged in two sets, 6-4, 7-5.

At No. 5 singles, van Biezen nearly pulled out the victory for the Bobcats over Daun after coming to win the second set but Daun pulled away in the third set, 7-5, 6-7 (8), 10-6. Rozenstein's No. 3 singles match against Lundkvist was the last match to finish despite going only two sets. Both sets went to lengthy tiebreakers which Rozenstein took, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (5).

The Quinnipiac men's tennis team returns to action on Tuesday, March 15 with two matches on tap. The Bobcats will face the Bucknell Bison at 10:30 AM at Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida before traveling to Fort Gatlin for their second match of the day at 1 PM against the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles.

Doubles:
No. 1 – Manzanas/Russell (NIU) def. Kuwert/van Biezen (QU): 6-4
No. 2 – Daun/Lundkvist (NIU) def. Roser/Zaretsky (QU): 6-4
No. 3 – Hamel/Hjertonsson (NIU) def. Ezaka/Alper (QU): 6-1

Singles:
No. 1 – Manzanas (NIU) def. Ezaka (QU): 6-1, 6-2
No. 2 – Hamel (NIU) def. Zaretsky (QU): 6-2, 6-2
No. 3 – Rozenstein (QU) def. Lundkvist (NIU): 7-6 (8), 7-6 (5)
No. 4 – Hjertonsson (NIU) def. Kuwert (QU): 6-4, 7-5
No. 5 – Daun (NIU) def. van Biezen (QU): 7-5, 6-7 (8), 10-6
No. 6 – Russell (NIU) def. Alper (QU): 6-1, 6-1