And the Spring Break '07 trip is underway! Truthfully, we have been on spring break for a few days, but today was our first set of matches.
This year we are traveling with 14 players and are splitting into two teams playing two matches each day (team A and team B). This morning the first team lost a 7-2 battle to #8 Washington University St Louis. The final score doesn't do justice to the competitive nature of this match. As we found out the WA U team is a very talented, deep team. In fact their #2 player is ranked #3 in NCAA III tennis! The match started off with 3 amazing doubles matches. I don't think I've ever seen a dual match with three closer doubles matches. At one point I thought we were going to win all three matches and a few moments later thought we were going to lose all three matches. At #1 doubles the Wash U team came back from a break down to defeat Steven and Phalkun 9-7. Robbie and Christoph played some of their best doubles of the year to post a 9-7 victory at #3. At #2 doubles Matt and Nadeem got off to a horrible start quickly going down 1-4 (two breaks). To their credit they battled hard, picked up their game and brought the match back even at 8-8. Unfortunately for us the Wash U team played great tennis taking the breaker 7-5.
Even though all the singles matches were close the only match we won was at #3 where Robbie cruised to a 6-3, 6-2 victory. It was nice to see Robbie find his groove and play his best tennis of the year.
Though we lost 5 of the 6 singles matches we had chances in most of the matches. Both Steven (#2) and Matt (#4) lost in the third sets. Christoph (#4) lost the first set in a breaker and Dan (#6) was serving for the first set at 5-4.
Team B had a solid win against Whittier. Coach Changstrom will be providing an update on that match later tonight.
Tomorrow is a day off for the Whitties and we are going to the Pacific Life Open!
We resume play Friday 2pm at #9 Redlands (both teams).
Check out pictures of the spring break trip. Some pretty funny pictures of the freshman dressing up to go see the movie 300.
Doubles
#1 Steven/Phalkun lost Charlie Cutler/Chris Hoeland 9-7
#2 Matt/Nadeem lost Trevis Bowman/Eric Pollak 9-8
#3 Christoph/Robbie def John Watts/Charlie Howard 9-7
Singles
#1 Phalkun lost Charlie Cutler 6-4, 6-2
#2 Steven Lost John Watts (#3 in nation) 6-2, 5-7, 6-3
#3 Robbie def Chris Hoeland 6-3, 6-2
#4 Matt lost Danny Levy 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4
#5 Christoph lost Charlie Howard 7-6, 6-2
#6 Dan lost Trevis Bowman 7-5, 6-0
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