Army West Point Athletics
Army Concludes Day One of Rice Invitational
September 28, 2018 | Men's Tennis
HOUSTON, Tx - The Army men's tennis team kicked off its fall season today at the Texas Tamale Rice Invitational with multiple players competing in singles and doubles action on day one.
Three doubles pairs took the court for Army, while singles action saw eight Cadets take the court across the four draws. Along with Army, Denver, University of Louisiana, Nichols State, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Texas, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas Tech, Tulane, UIW, UTSA will compete this weekend.
HOW IT HAPPENED
A DOUBLES
Myles Conlin/Nikita Larichev
First round- L, 6-3 vs. Jacob Eskeland/Karol Paluch (Rice)
B DOUBLES
David Mitchell/David Gorshein
First round- W, 6-4 vs. vs. Paco Bendana/Oliver Valentinsson (Incarnate Word)
C DOUBLES
Alejandro Quiros/Diego Huttepain
First round- W, 6-2 vs. Chad Nguyen/Jonathan Christie (Texas A&M Corpus Christi)
A SINGLES
Myles Conlin
Match 1- W, 7-6(6), 6-4 vs. Sebastian Mortier (UIW)
Match 2- L, 6-3, 6-3 vs. Chih Chi Huang (Texas)
Nikita Larichev
Match 1- L, 6-2, 7-5 vs. Karol Paluch (Rice)
Match 2- W, 7-6(4), 6-3 vs. Sasha Podgursky (NSU)
B SINGLES
David Mitchell
Match 1- W, 6-2, 7-5 vs. Nestor Giribet (NSU)
Match 2- L, 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3 vs. Thibault Frumholz (Texas A&M CC)
Diego Huttepain
Match 1- W, 6-2, 6-1 vs. Leon Hein (University of Texas San Antonio)
Match 2- W, 6-4, 6-3 vs. Jorge Juarez (Prairie View A&M)
C SINGLES
David Gorshein
Match 1- L, 6-1, 6-3 vs. Jonathan Christie (Texas A&M CC)
Match 2- W, 6-2, 6-4 vs. Eddie Marino (NSU)
Alejandro Quiros
Match 1- W, 6-1, 6-3 vs. Ashton Duke (Rice)
Match 2- W, 6-1, 6-3 vs. Dominik Koenig (University of Louisiana)
Grant Patterson
Match 1- L, 6-3, 6-3 vs. Alvaro Barranco (NSU)
Match 2- L 6-2, 6-3 vs. Celeb Dyer (UIW)
D SINGLES
Anant Mundra
Match 1- L, 7-5, 6-4 vs. Moritz Borges (Nicholls State) 7-5, 6-4
Doubles and singles action continues Saturday morning, and will conclude on Sunday.
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