QU Men's Tennis Loses First MAAC Contest in Tough Loss to Marist, 4-3

Saturday, April 16

Hamden, Conn.

1 PM

Quinnipiac University

Marist College

QU Men's Tennis Loses First MAAC Contest in Tough Loss to Marist, 4-3

4/16/2016 8:21:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: QU Sports Information

HAMDEN, Connecticut – The Quinnipiac men's tennis team lost a heartbreaker Saturday afternoon, 4-3, to the Marist Red Foxes at the QU Outdoor Tennis Courts in a rematch of the 2015 MAAC Semifinals.

The loss snaps Quinnipiac's five-match winning streak as they fall to 12-7 on the season and 4-1 in the MAAC with their first conference loss. Marist improves to 13-3 (5-0 MAAC) with its seventh straight victory.

Jonas Kuwert (Jesteberg, Germany) was the only Bobcat to win both of his matches on the day, good for his 90^th career victory. Kuwert got wins at No. 1 doubles and No. 4 singles for the Bobcats.

Kei Ezaka (Ojai, California) won his sixth consecutive singles match with a big win for the Bobcats at No. 1 singles in three sets. Julian Rozenstein (Marlboro, New Jersey) won his single-season career-high 21^st singles match of the season and 29^th overall victory this season with the two-set win at No. 3 singles. Freddie Zaretsky (Fair Lawn, New Jersey) also won his 29^th match of the season at No. 1 doubles with Kuwert.

The Bobcats won the first doubles match of the afternoon over the Red Foxes as Kuwert and Zaretsky defeated Justin Chanthalangsy and Jan Dernic, 6-4, at No. 1 doubles. Just after that match ended, Rudolf Kurz and Dylan Fletcher wrapped up a win at No. 2 doubles over Ezaka and Luke Roser (Bernardsville, New Jersey), 6-4. The Red Foxes secured the doubles point with a 7-5 win by Joe Motta and Fredrik Bjerke over Rozenstein and Ryoma Haraguchi (New York, New York).

Singles play brought three wins for each team as Marist jumped out to a 3-1 lead. Chanthalangsy picked up the first win of the day via retirement in his match against Zaretsky as Chanthalangsy was leading, 5-2, when the match was called. Marist got its third win of the match as Fletcher defeated Haraguchi, 6-3, 6-1, in No. 6 singles. Rozenstein got the first point of the match for the Bobcats at No. 3 singles as he cruised past Bjerke, 6-3, 6-3. Marist clinched the win with a 4-1 lead as Dernic downed Roser in two sets at No. 5 singles, 7-6 (5), 6-1.

Quinnipiac got two wins back to bring it within 4-3 as Kuwert was able to pull off the strong three-set win over Tanzer at No. 4 singles, 4-6, 6-3, 10-8. Ezaka followed that up by winning the final match of the day with one of his biggest wins of the season, a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Kurz at No. 1 singles.

The Bobcats hit the road for their final two matches of the regular season where they will travel to Fairfield on Thursday, Apr. 21 at 3 PM to take on the Stags before wrapping up the regular season in Watervilet, New York against the Siena Saints at 11:30 AM.

Doubles
No. 1 – Kuwert/Zaretsky (QU) def. Chanthalangsy/Dernic (Marist): 6-4
No. 2 – Kurz/Fletcher (Marist) def. Roser/Ezaka (QU): 6-4
No. 3 – Motta/Bjerke (Marist) def. Rozenstein/Haraguchi (QU): 7-5

Singles
No. 1 – Ezaka (QU) def. Kurz (Marist): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
No. 2 – Chanthalangsy (Marist) def. Zaretsky (QU): 2-5, ret.
No. 3 – Rozenstein (QU) def. Bjerke (Marist): 6-3, 6-3
No. 4 – Kuwert (QU) def. Tanzer (Marist): 4-6, 6-3, 10-8
No. 5 – Dernic (Marist) def. Roser (QU): 7-6 (5), 6-1
No. 6 – Fletcher (Marist) def. Haraguchi (QU): 6-3, 6-1