Dukes Roll to 6-1 Home Win Over UNCG

Wednesday, March 8

Harrisonburg, Va.

2 p.m.

James Madison University

UNCG

3/8/2023 6:00:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison returned to the win column in convincing fashion with a 6-1 victory against visiting UNCG on a windy Wednesday afternoon at Hillside Courts.

The Dukes improved to 6-4 on the year, while the Spartans dropped to 2-9.

In what was just the fifth meeting all-time and first in Harrisonburg, JMU improved to 3-2 against UNCG.

JMU's Julian Lozano, Aathreya Mahesh, Youssef Sadek and Edson Sanchez all went 2-0 with wins in doubles and singles, while Holden Koons didn't concede one frame in his singles victory.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Doubles Play

JMU dominated on one court and rallied on another to clinch the doubles point and early 1-0 lead.
On court three, Mahesh and Sadek cruised to a 6-0 victory against Andrew Black and Harrison Gwynn.
Trailing 4-3 on court two, the team of Lozano and Sanchez rattled off three straight games versus Christopher Johns and Tymofiy Khrystyuk to down the UNCG duo, 6-4, and secure the 1-0 match lead.
The final match on court one, featuring JMU's Koons and Francisco Sinopoli and UNCG's David Flisberg and John Gabelic, went unfinished while tied at 4-4.

Singles Play

All six singles matches finished in straight sets, with JMU claiming five of them en route to the home win.
Sanchez doubled the lead to 2-0 on court five, as he rolled past Johns, 6-2, 6-0.
Koons dominated play on court one, not dropping a game in his 6-0, 6-0 victory against Flisberg.
Mahesh clinched the match on court six, where he took down Black by scores of 6-1, 6-4. Black was down 5-1 and trimmed Mahesh's lead to 5-4 in the second before the Duke won a pivotal deuce point to secure the win.
Sadek trailed 3-2 in the opening set of his match against Devon Moskowitz but would go on to win 10 of the final 12 games with a 6-3, 6-2 triumph on court four.
UNCG got on the board with a victory on court three. Khrystyuk outlasted Sinopoli, 7-5, 6-3, for the Spartan's lone point.
Lozano capped off the afternoon with a solid win on court two. Trailing 5-3 in the opening set against Gabelic, he rallied to force a tiebreak, winning that by a count of 7-1. He used the momentum in the second set, finishing the day with a 7-6 (1), 6-1 win.

MATCH NOTES

The doubles tandem of Lozano and Sanchez won their eighth straight doubles match together, as they're now 5-0 this spring on court two and 14-2 when combining in fall tournament matches.
Mahesh and Sadek moved to 3-0 this year while teaming up in doubles but won for the first time in dual matches.
Koons won his sixth straight singles match, improving to 8-2 at the No. 1 spot this spring.

UP NEXT
JMU heads south next week, opening a three-match road trip on Tuesday, March 14 against Lehigh. The neutral-site bout will be contested at 9 a.m. on the USTA campus in Orlando.