No. 3 Seed QU Men's Tennis Falls to No. 2 Marist, 4-0, in MAAC Semifinals

Saturday, April 29

Mercer County Park, West Windsor, New Jersey

2 PM

Quinnipiac University

Marist College

No. 3 Seed QU Men's Tennis Falls to No. 2 Marist, 4-0, in MAAC Semifinals

4/29/2017 7:33:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: QU Sports Information

West Windsor, New Jersey – The No. 3 seed Quinnipiac men's tennis team's season came to an end Saturday afternoon as the Bobcats fell to the No. 2 seed Marist Red Foxes 4-0 in the MAAC Men's Tennis Semifinals at the Mercer County Tennis Center.

Quinnipiac finishes its season with a 10-11 (5-3 MAAC) record and finished the regular season in third place to qualify for its third-straight MAAC Tournament appearance.

The day began with the No. 2 doubles match, where Austin Yannone (Severna Park, Maryland) and Axel Stern (Tustin, California) took on Javier Restrepo and Gianlucca Massa. However, the Bobcat duo fell, 6-1. Kei Ezaka (Ojai, California) and Kyle Alper (Dix Hills, New York) followed in the No. 3 doubles match, but lost to Rudolf Kurz and Christopher Gladden, 6-3.

Due to the match being clinching-style format, the No. 1 doubles match went unfinished, with Julian Rozenstein (Marlboro, New Jersey) and Freddie Zaretsky (Fair Lawn, New Jersey) leading Justin Chanthalangsy and Dylan Fletcher, 6-5 before the match was called.

With Marist holding a 1-0 lead into singles play, the Red Foxes rallied off three straight wins to secure the 4-0 win over Quinnipiac.

Zaretsky fell in straight sets to Kurz in the No. 2 singles match, 6-0 and 6-1. Patrick Cachapero (Loma Linda, California) followed in the No. 4 singles match against Chanthalangsy. Cachapero challenged the Marist player, but ultimately he fell in two close sets, 7-5 and 7-5.

The match concluded after Alper fell to Fletcher in the No. 5 singles match in three sets. Alper dropped the first set, 1-6, but rebounded to take the second, 6-0. However, Alper could not maintain momentum and narrowly lost the final set, 6-4 to secure the Bobcats loss.

Due to clinching-style format, numerous singles matches went unfinished. Yannone had split two sets with Lars Schaulten, 2-6 and 6-4 before the match was called in a 2-2 tie in the third set. Rozenstein almost defeated Massa in three sets before the match was called. Rozenstein dropped the first set, 4-6 but took the second set 6-3 and was leading 5-1 when the match was called.

Ezaka was leading in the third set in the final match of his career. Ezaka barely dropped the first set 7-5, but took the second 6-3 and was leading 3-2 in the third set before the match ended. Ezaka ends his career as the all-time winningest player in program-history. Ezaka finishes his career with 143 career wins, which is six more than previous record-holder John Hughes 10'. Ezaka has 71 singles wins, which is second all-time and 72 doubles wins, which is third all-time in program-history.

Despite the loss, Quinnipiac had an incredible season as a team. The Bobcats had a 33-12 (.733) record in singles play against MAAC competition and 17-6 (.739) record in doubles play against MAAC opponents.

Singles:
#1 Restrepo (MAR) vs. Ezaka (QUI) 7-5, 3-6, 2-3, unfinished
#2 Kurz (MAR) def. Zarestsky (QUI) 6-0, 6-1
#3 Massa (MAR) vs. Rozenstein (QUI) 4-6, 6-3, 1-5, unfinished
#4 Chanthalangsy (MAR) def. Cachapero (QUI) 7-5, 7-5
#5 Fletcher (MAR) def. Alper (QUI) 6-1, 0-6, 6-4
#6 Schaulten (MAR) vs. Yannone (QUI) 6-2, 4-6, 2-2 unfinished

Order of finish:
2, 4, 5

Doubles:
#1 Chanthalangsy/Fletcher (MAR) vs. Zaretsky/Rozenstein (QUI) 5-6, unfinished
#2 Restrepo/Massa (MAR) def. Stern/Yannone (QUI) 6-1
#3 Kurz/Gladden (MAR) def. Ezaka/Alper, 6-3

Order of finish:
2, 3