No. 34 Big Green Defeated by No. 61 Monarchs, 4-3

Sunday, February 7

Norfolk, Va.

10:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Old Dominion

No. 34 Big Green Defeated by No. 61 Monarchs, 4-3

2/8/2016 11:48:00 AM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

NORFOLK, Va. – The No. 34 Dartmouth men's tennis team fell to No. 61 Old Dominion, 4-3, at the Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center on Sunday afternoon. The Big Green dipped to 5-3 on the season and the Monarchs improved to 4-3.

Dartmouth took the first point with victories at the No. 1 and 3 doubles positions. Senior Dovydas Sakinis and freshman Roko Glasnovic had a 6-3 win over Adam Moundir and Aziz Kijametovic at No. 1, while junior Max Schmidt and sophomore Max Fliegner downed Darragh Glavin and Theophile Lanthiez, 6-0.

After the Green won the doubles point, the Monarchs turned things around to win the first three singles matches, taking No. 2, 1 and 5 before Fliegner defeated Javier Jover Maestre, 6-2, 7-5, at No. 4. Schmidt had a three-set victory over Jacob Nicolussi at the No. 6 position by scores of 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, to make it a 3-3 match.

At No. 3 singles, senior Brendan Tannenbaum won his first set against Kijametovic, 7-5, but dropped the remaining two, 7-5, 6-3.

Next weekend, Dartmouth will head to Philadelphia for the ECAC Championship at Penn's Hecht Tennis Center.

1 – Sakinis/Glasnovic (Dartmouth) def. Moundir/Kijametovic (ODU), 6-3
2 – Weindl/Nicolussi (ODU) vs. Tannenbaum/Wall (Dartmouth), DNF
3 – Schmidt/Fliegner (Dartmouth) def. Glavin/Lanthiez (ODU), 6-0

1 – Moundir (ODU) def. No. 18 Sakinis (Dartmouth), 6-4, 6-4
2 – Weindl (ODU) def. Riccardi (Dartmouth), 6-1, 6-3
3 – Kijametovic (ODU) def. Tannenbaum (Dartmouth), 5-7, 7-5, 6-3
4 – Fliegner (Dartmouth) def. Maestre (ODU), 6-2, 7-5
5 – Podvinski (ODU) def. Wall (Dartmouth), 6-1, 6-2
6 – Schmidt (Dartmouth) def. Nicolussi (ODU), 6-4, 2-6, 7-5