Men's Tennis Defeats Rutgers in Regular Season Finale

The Blue Demons closed out their regular season on Saturday with a 4-0 neutral-court victory over Rutgers. DePaul won the doubles point and three singles matches before the competition was called short due to adverse weather.

STORRS, Conn. – The DePaul men’s tennis team closed out its regular season on Saturday with a 4-0 BIG EAST victory over Rutgers. The Blue Demons clinched the dual by winning the doubles point and three singles matches before the competition was called short due to adverse weather.

DePaul opened the match by sweeping Rutgers in doubles action. George Wang and Alasdair Graetz notched an 8-5 victory over Matthew Fawcett and Arjun Vaidya in the top flight, while Danny Wilson and Vanja Grgec rolled past Andrew Tervooren and Dale Madan, 8-1, at No. 2. Jack Komar and Jose Moncada rounded out the sweep with an 8-6 win over Ilya Kazakin-Kuteyev and Lawrence Zakrevsky in the third match.

Graetz earned his 15th victory of the season with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Zakrevsky at No. 3 singles. The fifth match saw Komar improve his season record to 19-6 as he knocked off Tervooren, 6-1, 6-1. Danny Wilson posted a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Kazakin-Kuteyev in the sixth match.

The Blue Demons led the first and second singles matches when the competition was shortened.

DePaul (17-5, 3-0 BIG EAST) closed out its regular season on a 10 dual winning streak and heads to Tampa, Florida next week for the 2007 BIG EAST Championships. The tournament begins Thursday, April 19 and runs through Saturday, April 21.

DePaul 4, Rutgers 0

Doubles

No. 1-Wang/Graetz (DePaul) def. Fawcett/Vaidya (Rutgers) 8-5

No. 2-Wilson/Grgec (DePaul) def. Tervooren/Madan (Rutgers) 8-1

No. 3-Komar/Moncada (DePaul) def. Zakrevsky/Kazakin-Kuteyev (Rutgers) 8-6

Singles

No. 1-George Wang (DePaul) leading Arjun Vaidya (Rutgers) 6-4, 1-0, Unfinished

No. 2-Jose Moncada (DePaul) leading Matthew Fawcett (Rutgers) 6-4, 3-0, Unfinished

No. 3-Alasdair Graetz (DePaul) def. Lawrence Zakrevsky (Rutgers) 6-2, 6-2

No. 4-Rohan Patkar (Rutgers) leading Vanja Grgec (DePaul) 7-6, Unfinished

No. 5-Jack Komar (DePaul) def. Andrew Tervooren (Rutgers) 6-1, 6-1

No. 6-Danny Wilson (DePaul) def. Ilya Kazakin-Kuteyev (Rutgers) 6-1, 6-1

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