Men's Tennis Loses at Fresno State

The DePaul men's tennis team suffered a 6-1 road loss to No. 52 Fresno State on Saturday. Junior Jose Moncada gave the Blue Demons a singles victory, but the Bulldogs prevailed at the Walthen Tennis Center.

FRESNO, Calif. The DePaul men’s tennis team suffered a 6-1 road loss to No. 52 Fresno State on Saturday. Junior Jose Moncada gave the Blue Demons a singles victory, but the Bulldogs prevailed at the Walthen Tennis Center.

Moncada rolled past Mirko Zapletal, 6-0, 6-3 in the top singles match. The Blue Demon junior carries 13 singles wins through the dual season with a 6-1 record in the No. 1 spot.

Doubles competition saw the Blue Demons record a victory in the No. 3 match when freshmen Ben Hartman and Adam Williams topped Flavio Mollinedo and Tejesvi Veerepalli, 8-5. Fresno State took the doubles point with wins in the No. 1 and No. 2 matches.

The Bulldogs improve to 12-7 on the season.

DePaul (12-8, 2-0 BIG EAST) returns to competition on Saturday, April 5 with a BIG EAST Conference dual at Marquette. The Blue Demons challenge the Golden Eagles at 4 p.m. (CST).

(52) Fresno State 6, DePaul 1

Doubles
No. 1 - Siwy/Zapletal (FS) def. Doerner/Graetz (DePaul), 8-5
No. 2 - Fafek/Leiby (FS) def. Moncada/Grgec (DePaul), 8-1
No. 3 - Williams/Hartman (DePaul) def. Mollinedo/Veerepalli (FS), 8-5

Singles
No. 1 - Jose Moncada (DePaul) def. Mirko Zapletal (FS), 6-0, 6-3
No. 2 - (104) Rudolf Siwy (FS) def. Austin Doerner (DePaul), 6-2, 6-2M
No. 3 - Tejesvi Veerepalli (FS) def. Vanja Grgec (DePaul), 7-5, 6-3
No. 4 - Denny Fafek (FS) def. Ben Hartman (DePaul), 6-3, 7-6 (5)
No. 5 - Siddharth Alapati (FS) def. Alasdair Graetz (DePaul), 6-4, 6-4
No. 6 - Flavio Mollinedo (FS) def. Adam Williams (DePaul), 7-5, 7-5

Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (1,2,3,5,4,6)

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