Loyola tennis teams face Nicholls in home opener

NEW ORLEANS – With the college tennis season officially underway, the Loyola men's and women's tennis teams returned to New Orleans to take on NCAA Division I school Nicholls State University for the season's first home match at City Park. 

 

Nicholls won the women's match 5-2 and the men's match 6-1. 

 

The Loyola women came away with two singles victories and were close to taking the doubles point, as the Wolf Pack began the match with a dominant Court 2 victory, 6-0 from Micaela Ponce and Ariana Salgueiro-Estela. The result of women's doubles came down to the match on Court 1, where Lucy Carpenter and Fatima Vasquez were down 6-5 but came back to force a tiebreak. The decider was then tied at 5-5 but Nicholls secured the last two points to clinch the doubles point. 

 

Carpenter rallied back to win her singles match in three sets: 6-3, 3-6, 11-9. Carpenter has now played against Nicholls' top singles player, Simona Maksimovic, four times in her career, with their all-time series tied at 2-2. 

 

The other women's singles win for the Pack came on Court 5, as Adele Fereres continued her hot start to the season with a come-from-behind, three set victory: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. 

 

Loyola's men's team got one singles win from Aubin Duchier, as the senior secured a point in straight sets: 6-3, 6-4. Francisco Javier Arce Vieyra was also able to take the opening set in his match on Court 1, but he eventually fell in a third-set super tiebreak. 

 

The Wolf Pack women's team will return to action on Friday, Feb. 3, for a noon match against Dillard. It'll be the team's first NAIA dual match of the season. 

 

For the Wolf Pack men, they continue a stretch of matches against NCAA teams from the Southland conference, as they face the University of New Orleans next Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m.

 

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Women's Results

No. 14 Loyola – 2

Nicholls – 5

Doubles
1. Cruz/Lopez (NSU) def. #10 L. Carpenter/Vasquez (LOYNO) 7-6 (7-5)

2. #13 Ponce/Salgueiro-Estela (LOYNO) def. Bouygues/Hassan(NSU) 6-0

3. Maksimovic/Safarova (NSU) def. E. Carpenter/A. Fereres (LOYNO) 6-1

Singles

1. Lucy Carpenter (LOYNO) def. Simona Maksimovic (NSU) 6-3, 3-6, 11-9

2. Sophia Safarova (NSU) def. Fatima Vasquez (LOYNO) 6-4, 6-2

3. Daneen Hassan (NSU) def. Micaela Ponce (LOYNO) 6-4, 6-1

4. Constanza Cruz (NSU) def. Isabella Leaño (LOYNO) 6-2, 6-1

5. Adele Fereres (LOYNO) def. Laura Lopez (NSU) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

6. Carla Bouygues (NSU) def. Ariana Salgueiro-Estela (LOYNO) 6-3, 6-0

Men's Results

 

Loyola – 1

Nicholls – 6

 

Doubles
1. Sasso/Machado (NSU) def. Arce/Motazed (LOYNO) 6-2

2. Collins/Borlee (NSU) def. Duchier/Matz (LOYNO) 6-1

3. Lamothe/Morsy (NSU) def. de Preville/Debackere (LOYNO) 6-1

 

Singles

1. Omar Morsy (NSU) def. Francisco Javier Arce Vieyra (LOYNO) 6-7, 7-5, 10-5

2. Ilian Borlee (NSU) def. Theo Debackere (LOYNO) 6-4, 6-2

3. Lukas Morand (NSU) def. Hippolyte de Preville (LOYNO) 6-1, 7-5

4. Harry Collins (NSU) def. Samuel Motazed (LOYNO) 6-3, 6-2

5. Quentin Lamothe (NSU) def. Spencer Matz (LOYNO) 6-0, 6-1

6. Aubin Duchier (LOYNO) def. Vladislav Gorbatenko (NSU) 6-3, 6-4