No. 46 Men's Tennis Defeated by No. 18 TCU, 5-2

Saturday, March 21

Fort Worth, Texas

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

TCU

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No. 46 Men's Tennis Defeated by No. 18 TCU, 5-2

3/21/2015 6:30:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

FORT WORTH, Texas – On its first day in Texas, the No. 46 Dartmouth men's tennis team fell to No. 18 Texas Christian University, 5-2, at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center on Saturday. The Big Green dipped 8-4, while the Horned Frogs improved to 12-5.

TCU picked up the doubles point with a 6-4 victory at the No. 2 position and a 6-3 win at No. 3. The No. 27-ranked duo of junior Dovydas Sakinis and senior Chris Kipouras was leading Nick Chappell and Will Stein, 4-3, when their match went unfinished.

Kipouras tied the score at one with a 6-1, 6-1 defeat of No. 31 Cameron Norrie at the No. 2 singles, but the Horned Frogs put the match out of reach with victories at the No. 4, 5 and 1 positions. At the No. 6 position, sophomore Max Schmidt defeated Trevor Johnson, winning the first set, 6-4, and trailing, 1-0, in the second before Johnson retired.

The Big Green will face Oklahoma State at 12 p.m. (ET) on Sunday.

#1 – No. 29 Chappell and Stein (TCU) vs. No. 27 Sakinis and Kipouras (Dartmouth), 3-4, DNF
#2 – No. 23 Johnson and Norrie (TCU) def. Schmidt and Tannenbaum (Dartmouth), 6-4
#3 – Blake and Lugones (TCU) def. Pedraza and Todd (Dartmouth), 6-3

#1 – No. 39 Chappell (TCU) def. No. 80 Sakinis (Dartmouth), 7-6(7-0), 6-3
#2 – Kipouras (Dartmouth) def. No 31 Norrie (TCU), 6-1, 6-1
#3 – No. 116 Nunez (TCU) def. Riccardi (Dartmouth), 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
#4 – Dachs (TCU) def. Pedraza (Dartmouth), 6-1, 6-2
#5 – Stein (TCU) def. Tannenbaum (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-4
#6 – Schmidt (Dartmouth) def. Johnson (TCU), 6-4, 0-1, retired