Men's tennis players will play on final day at ITA Cup
Eastern Florida State College men’s tennis players will compete in singles and doubles on the final day of the ITA Cup in Rome, Georgia
The Eastern Florida State College men's tennis will play on the final day of the ITA Cup in Rome, Georgia.
In singles, Fernando Martinez Belinchon will play in the third-place match Sunday morning against Bakersfield College's Mateusz Lipczynski.
Martinez faced Pratt Community College's Kenneth Rabinad Vila and the pair were tied 4-4 before Martinez won the next two points to pick up the 6-4 win in the first set.
But Rabinad Vila dominated the second set, winning 6-1 to force a third set. In the third set, Rabinad Vila took an early 3-0 lead but Martinez rallied to tie things 4-4. But it was Rabinad Vila who would win the final two points to advance to the championship of the JUCO ITA Cup.
Lipczynski lost 7-6(7-3), 6-2 in the other semifinal to No. 1 seed Daniel Marincas of Tyler Junior College.
The doubles team of Filip Sormaz and Marko Miljanic won their match in the consolation bracket against Meridian Community College's Daniel Espin and Baldwim Jared Escobar Cifuentes 6-2, 6-3 and will play in the consolation final on Sunday.
Sormaz and Miljanic will play Bakersfield College's Shang En Kao and Lipczynski, who won their match 6-3, 6-4.
The singles third-place match is scheduled for 8 a.m. and the doubles consolation final is scheduled for 11 a.m.