Men's Tennis Wins Pair to Open Spring

SAN ANTONIO – In dominating fashion, the St. Mary's Men's Tennis team began the season 2-0 with identical 6-1 wins over Tabor and Schreiner on Saturday at Rohrbach Tennis Stadium on the St. Mary's campus.
 
Thursday, the team heads to Seguin for a match against Texas Lutheran at 2:30 p.m. before coming home to host St. Thomas on Saturday at 11 a.m.
 
TABOR RECAP
The doubles action set the tone for the Gold and Blue as all three teams won handily. At the #1 ladder position, sophomores Jake Faryniarz (San Antonio) and Ryan Koth (Boerne, Texas) won 6-2, as did the No. 2 team of senior Chad Nguyen (College Station, Texas) and junior Sebastian Azcui (La Paz, Bolivia), while Rafael Macedo (Brazil) and Mario Urdaneta (Houston) won 6-3 at No. 3 for the 1-0 advantage.
 
Freshman Alvaro Soler (Alicante, Spain) doubled the team score with a 6-1, 6-1 win at No. 5, while Faryniarz dropped just one game in a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 2. Nguyen was the next to finish, winning the top ladder spot 6-4, 6-1. Azcui won by identical 6-3 scores at No. 4, and Macedo posted matching scores of 6-2, 6-2 at No. 6. Koth split the first two sets 4-6, 6-4 and he dropped the 10-point doubles scoring third set.
 
SCHREINER RECAP
Once again, the doubles set the tone for the entire match as the three teams combined to lose only four points. Sophomore Nicolas Llosa (Lima, Peru) and freshman Niklas Knoerr (Tübingen, Germany) took just 12 minutes to win 6-1 at the first position, while the team of sophomore Oskar Irdoja (Tallinn, Estonia) and senior Pablo Munoz Baroja won at No. 2 by the identical 6-1 tally. Nguyen and freshman Yu Senda (Setagaya, Tokya, Japan) won 6-2 at No. 3.
 
Knoerr blanked his opponent at the second ladder spot, while Irdoja dropped only one game at No. 3, winning in just 18 minutes. Llosa pulled off the 6-0, 6-2 victory at #4 singles, while Azcui's scored were flipped from his fellow captain, winning 6-2, 6-0 at No. 5. Matheu Baldor also dropped only one game, winning 6-0, 6-1 at #6. The lone loss for the Rattlers was Munoz Baroja at number one. He won the opening set 6-3, fell 6-0 in the second and 10-5 in the third.