Dukes Win Pair of Three Setters to Claim 4-3 Win at UNCG

Sunday, March 10

Greensboro, N.C.

1 p.m.

James Madison University

UNCG

Dukes Win Pair of Three Setters to Claim 4-3 Win at UNCG

3/10/2024 6:56:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

GREENSBORO, N.C. – James Madison earned a tough road victory at UNCG, winning a doubles tiebreak and a pair of three-set singles bouts to earn a 4-3 win Sunday afternoon at the UNCG Tennis Courts.

The Dukes improved to 6-5 on the year, winning for the fifth time in a row, while the Spartans dropped to 4-8.

JMU won two of three doubles matches, including a two-point win in the deciding tiebreak, and the teams split singles, with JMU winning two three setters, one of which in come-from-behind fashion.

Esteve Agusti and Julian Lozano won in both singles and doubles, while Francisco Sinopoli secured the decisive point for the Dukes in singles. The tandem of Harrison Lee and Edson Sanchez clinched the doubles point as well.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Doubles Play

UNCG took the early doubles advantage, as Tymofiy Khrystyuk and Luke Thomson downed Markus Giersiepen and Youssef Sadek, 6-2, on court two.
JMU evened it up on court one, as Agusti and Lozano defeated David Flisberg and John Gabelic, 6-4.
JMU clinched the doubles point and 1-0 lead on court three, where Lee and Sanchez won the tiebreak by a pair of points to beat Christopher Johns and Tejas Wall, 7-6 (5).

Singles Play

JMU doubled its lead with one of just the two straight-set victories that would occur on the day, as Agusti didn't concede a game in the second to upend Wall, 6-4, 6-0, on court three.
UNCG made it 2-1 on court one, as Khrystyuk defeated Sadek, 6-3, 6-2.
The Dukes extended the lead to 3-1 on court two, where Lozano held off Flisberg, running away in the third for a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victoty.
JMU clinched the team win on court five, as Sinopoli overcame a set deficit, earning a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 triumph versus Devon Moskowitz.
UNCG earned the final two points, claiming three-set wins on courts four and six. The final bout would be decided in a tiebreak, in which Mario Pena fell by an 8-6 count.

UP NEXT
JMU returns to action on Tuesday, March 12 with another match in the Triangle, as it faces Elon at 2:30 p.m.