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VCU VCU (7-7, 1-0 A10)
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Winner Wake Forest WF (16-4, 3-1 ACC)
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Wake Forest WF
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Match Recap: Men's Tennis |

VCU FALLS AGAINST TOP-RANKED WAKE FOREST

Score: No. 4 Wake Forest 4, No. 43 VCU 0
Location: Winston-Salem, N.C.
Records: VCU 7-8 (1-0 Atlantic 10) , Wake Forest 16-4 (3-1 ACC)

The Short Story: VCU took on the fourth-best team in the country and couldn't secure any points en route to just their first shutout of the season

Opening Serve

  • Oscar Pinto Sansano and German Samofalov, currently ranked nationally at 31, took on the No. 1 pair of doubles on court one and played a competitive match that went unfinished.
  • Wake Forest took the doubles points on courts two and three
  • Mathis Bondaz fell in a tough match that went to tiebreaker in the first set
  • The Demon Deacons took two more singles for the match on courts six and four
  • In the unfinished matches, the Rams had won at least one set

Singles results

1. #90 DK Suresh Ekambaram (WF) def. #41 Mathis Bondaz (VCU) 7-6(3), 6-2
2. #22 Filippo Moroni (WF) vs. Oscar Pinto Sansano (VCU) 6-4, 3-6, unfinished
3. Matthew Thomson (WF) vs. Romain Gales (VCU) 3-6, 6-4, unfinished
4. #98 Luciano Tacchi (WF) def. #70 Matisse Bobichon (VCU) 6-2, 7-6(4)
5. Luca Pow (WF) vs. Hazma El Amine (VCU) 6-2, 1-6, 2-0, unfinished
6. Holden Koons (WF) def. German Samofalov (VCU) 6-2, 6-3

Order of finish: 1, 6, 4

Doubles results

1. #1 DK Suresh Ekambaram/Holden Koons (WF) vs. #31 German Samofalov/Oscar Pinto Sansano (VCU) 5-4, unfinished
2. Filippo Moroni/Matthew Thomson (WF) def. Hazma El Amine/Matisse Bobichon (VCU) 6-3
3. Luciano Tacchi/Luca Pow (WF) def. Romain Gales/Mathis Bondaz (VCU) 6-0

Order of finish: 3, 2

Up next: The Rams return home to play a weekend home stand, beginning Friday at 1 p.m. against No. 37 Cornell and Sunday at 1 p.m. against No. 66 Charlotte

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