WICHITA FALLS, Texas - The UT Dallas men's tennis team suffered a 7-0 loss to #50 Ouachita Baptist at the MSU Tennis Center Wednesday afternoon.
The Tigers (7-3) started the match by winning two of the three doubles battles for the first point. The Comets' (2-4) number two tandem of senior
Eddy Shteyn and graduate student
Giritharan D improved to 4-1 on the year with a 6-3 victory over Tinus Mueller and Buss Moritz.
At number one doubles, OBU's Phil Exner and Ramon Strassmann, who are ranked 12th in NCAA Division II, defeated
Benjamin Dubois and
Travis Rafferty 6-3.
The Tigers went on to win all six singles matches. Exner, the second-ranked player in the nation, defeated Rafferty 6-2, 6-1 in the top duel. Shteyn battled Buss to a 6-0, 7-6 (7-5) decision at number three. At number five, graduate student
Harshom Gupta was defeated by Mueller 6-3, 7-6 (8-6).
UTD will continue their trip to Wichita Falls by taking on #11 Midwestern State at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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