March 5, 2006
The No. 22 Georgia Tech men’s tennis team suffered its first loss of the 2006 season to the No. 17 Miami Hurricanes by a 7-0 score. With the defeat, the Yellow Jackets fall to 6-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast Conference while Miami improves to 7-2, 2-1 ACC.
The Hurricanes opened the match by claiming the doubles point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles. Miami’s pair of Vivek Subramanian and P.J. Passalacqua started things off with a win over Jordan Delass and George Gvelesiani at No. 3, 8-5. Quickly after, the Hurricanes team of Josh Cohen and Eric Hechtman defeated Scott Blackmon and Zachary Rath, 8-6, to win the point. Georgia Tech’s lone victory in doubles came at No. 1 as the 42nd ranked team of Marko Rajevac and David North defeated Luigi D’Agord and Daniel Vallverdu, 9-7.
Miami increased its lead to 2-0 as No. 8 D’Agord easily defeated Rajevac at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-4. The Hurricanes then extended their lead to 3-0 as after dropping the first set, No. 18 Cohen beat Rath at No. 2, 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-2. Miami then won the deciding point at No. 5 singles as Gvelesiani dropped his first dual match of the season, 6-4, 6-4 to John Hoyes.
In other singles matches on the day, North pushed his match against Vallverdu at No. 3 singles to a third set, before falling in the third by the scores of 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 while Delass dropped a tough three-set match in a tiebreaker to Hechtman at No. 4, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9). In the last match on the afternoon, Blackmon fell in a close three set match at No. 6 singles to Submaranian, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (10).
The Yellow Jackets will return to action Wednesday when they take on No. 15 Clemson at 2:30 p.m. at the Bill Moore Tennis Center.
Tennis Match ResultsUniversity of Miami vs Georgia TechMar 05, 2006 at Bill Moore Tennis Center (Outdoors)
#17 University of Miami 7, #22 Georgia Tech 0
Singles competition 1. #8 Luigi D’Agord (MIAMI) def. Marko Rajevac (GT) 6-1, 6-4 2. #18 Josh Cohen (MIAMI) def. Zachary Rath (GT) 6-7 (2-7), 6-1, 6-2 3. Daniel Vallverdu (MIAMI) def. David North (GT) 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 4. Eric Hechtman (MIAMI) def. Jordan Delass (GT) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (11-9) 5. John Hoyes (MIAMI) def. George Gvelesiani (GT) 6-4, 6-4 6. Vivek Subramanian (MIAMI) def. Scott Blackmon (GT) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (12-10)
Doubles competition 1. #42 Marko Rajevac/David North (GT) def. Luigi D’Agord/Daniel Vallverdu (MIAMI) 9-7 2. Eric Hechtman/Josh Cohen (MIAMI) def. Scott Blackmon/Zachary Rath (GT) 8-6 3. Vivek Subramanian/P.J. Passalacqua (MIAMI) def. Jordan Delass/George Gvelesiani (GT) 8-5
Match Notes: University of Miami 7-2, 2-1 ACC; National ranking #17 Georgia Tech 6-1, 0-1 ACC; National ranking #22 Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (1,2,5,3,4,6)
