Keiser, Warner Advance to Men's Tennis Finals
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. – The finals of The Sun Conference Men’s Tennis Championship Presented by Olympus Insurance are set as no. 1 seed Keiser and no. 2 seed Warner advanced with wins in Thursday’s semifinals at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park. Keiser defeated fourth seeded SCAD Savannah 5-0 in the first semifinal, then Warner topped no. 2 seed Southeastern 5-1.
The Sun Conference Men’s Tennis Championship Finals will be played at 9 a.m. on Friday at the Crandon Park Tennis Center.
Keiser ran out to a 3-0 lead after doubles competition led by the number one doubles team of Rafael Lenz and Shaquille Taylor who defeated Sean Hajdu and Quentin Staley of SCAD Savannah 8-2. In number two doubles, Ignacio Osse and Guilherme Cunha defeated Yulin Liu and Josh Tewes-McCoy 9-8 with a 7-5 tiebreaker win. Nicolas Guershanik and Arthur Bonnard topped Kenta Naka and Corrie Pickering in number three doubles.
The Seahawks then finished off the win with a victory in number four singles by Arthur Bonnaud 6-0, 6-2 over Daiki Naka and a 6-1, 6-0 win over Quentin Staley in number five singles.
In the second semifinal, Warner opened with a 2-1 win in doubles play. Rafael A. Coutinho and Rafael E. Coutinho, the 13
th ranked doubles team in the nation, defeated SEU’s Jordan Harris and Max Nguyen 8-3. Francisco Perefan and Renan Gambin topped Noah Rawls and Aaron Skingley 8-7 for Warner’s second doubles win. Southeastern won the number two doubles as Lucca Marcheschi and Andrew Dickens won 8-4 over WU’s Rafael Da Luz and Guillaume de Vauxclairs.
Warner finished off the win in singles play as Rafael A. Coutinho won 6-1, 6-1 in number one singles, Guillaume de Vauxclairs won 6-2, 6-1 in number two singles, and Renan Gambin won 6-4, 6-3 in number three singles.
Admission to the Sun Conference Tennis Championships on April 21-22 at The Tennis Center at Crandon Park is free for spectators. Stay tuned to thesunconference.com for updates throughout the tournament.
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