No. 60 Dartmouth Men's Tennis Upsets No. 36 SMU, 4-1

Tuesday, March 24

Dallas, Texas

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

SMU

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No. 60 Dartmouth Men's Tennis Upsets No. 36 SMU, 4-1

3/24/2015 10:05:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

DALLAS, Texas – On its last day in Texas, No. 60 Dartmouth men's tennis team defeated No. 36 SMU, 4-1, at the SMU Tennis Complex on Tuesday.

The Big Green improved to 9-6, while the Mustangs lost their third straight match and fell to 15-5.

Victories at the No. 1 and 3 positions clinched the doubles point for Dartmouth. At No. 1, junior Dovydas Sakinis and senior Chris Kipouras, who are now ranked 21st in the country, had a 7-5 win over Arturs Kazijevs and Markus Kerner. Senior Sam Todd and sophomore Diego Pedraza were down, 4-1, before coming back to defeat Tony Russell and Samm Butler at No. 3 by the same score.

The Mustangs tied things up with a 6-2, 6-4 win at the No. 4 singles, but the Big Green were victorious in the next three matches. At the No. 6 position, junior Brendan Tannenbaum had a 6-4, 6-3 win over Russell, while, at No. 1, 86th-ranked Sakinis had a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 defeat of Kerner. It was freshman Ciro Riccardi that won the final point, taking down Butler, 7-5, 6-4.

Dartmouth will head to Louisiana to face No. 65 Tulane at 11 a.m. (ET) on Friday, March 27.

#1 – No. 21 Sakinis and Kipouras (Dartmouth) def. Kazijevc and Kerner (SMU), 7-5
#2 – Lammons and Slobodkins (SMU) vs. Tannenbaum and Riccardi (Dartmouth), 6-4
#3 – Todd and Pedraza (Dartmouth) def. Russell and Butler (SMU), 7-5

#1 – No. 86 Sakinis (Dartmouth) def. Kerner (SMU), 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
#2 – No. 91 Kipouras (Dartmouth) vs. Kazijevs (SMU), 7-6(5), 2-6, DNF
#3 – Riccardi (Dartmouth) def. Butler (SMU), 7-5, 6-4
#4 – Lammons (SMU) def. Pedraza (Dartmouth), 6-2, 6-4
#5 – Slobodkins (SMU) vs. Schmidt (Dartmouth), 4-6, 6-1, 2-5, DNF
#6 – Tannenbaum (Dartmouth) def. Russell (SMU), 6-4, 6-3