THE FLATS – On the second day of competition of the GT Fall Invite, the Georgia Tech men’s tennis team was led by the victorious doubles duo, Robert Bauer and Angel Guerrero Melgar, and singles wins from Elias Shokry, Andres Martin, Bauer and Guerrero Melgar.
As Tech’s lone doubles winners of the day, Bauer and Guerrero Melgar defeated Yale’s Neal and Gogineni, 8-6. In singles play, Bauer won against Gordon Whitwell from Ole Miss (6-2, 6-1) and Guerrero Melgar outplayed Ole Miss’s Walker Stearns with 6-3, 6-2 win.
Shokry beat Vanderbilt’s Mitchell Deames with a 7-6 [6] tiebreaker win in the first set and a 6-3 win in the final set. Martin’s singles victory over Ole Miss’s Nikola Slavic was quickly accomplished in two sets. He beat Slavic 6-3 in the first set and clinched the win with a dominating 6-0 performance in the second set.
Tech will conclude competition on Sunday, Nov. 6, starting off with doubles play at 9 a.m. at Ken Byers Tennis Complex.
GT FALL INVITE – DAY 1 RESULTS
Doubles
Court 1 – Bauer/Guerrero Melgar (GT) vs. Neal/Gogineni (Yale); 8-6
Court 2 – Martin/Sachdev (GT) vs. Casabon/Troost (Vanderbilt); 8-7 [4]
Court 3 – McDaniel/Shokry (GT) vs. Slavic/Englehardt (Ole Miss); 8-4
Singles:
Court 1 – Luke Neal (Yale) vs. Rohan Sachdev (GT); 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
Court 2 – Keshav Chopra (GT) vs. Thomas Paulsell (UGA); 7-5, 6-4
Court 3 – Marcus McDaniel (GT) vs. Nathan Cox (Vanderbilt); 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
Court 4 – Elias Shokry (GT) vs. Mitchell Deames (Vanderbilt); 7-6 [6], 5-7, 6-3
Court 5 – Andres Martin (GT) vs. Nikola Slavic (Ole Miss); 6-3, 6-0
Court 6 – Robert Bauer (GT) vs. Gordon Whitwell (Ole Miss); 6-2, 6-1
Court 10 – Angel Guerrero Melgar (GT) vs. Walker Stearns (Ole Miss); 6-3, 6-2
Competitive Drive Initiative
In a unified endeavor, Georgia Tech, the Georgia Tech Foundation, Georgia Tech athletics and the Alexander-Tharpe Fund have come together to accelerate funding for student-athlete scholarships with the launch of the Competitive Drive Initiative. The initiative kicks off with the Accelerate GT Match Program, where any new gift to the A-T Fund’s Athletic Scholarship Fund made through Dec. 31 will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Georgia Tech Foundation, up to $2.5 million. Should Accelerate GT reach its $2.5 million fundraising goal, the matching gift would result in a $5 million impact for Georgia Tech athletics. To learn more and to contribute online, visit atfund.org/accelerate.
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