Tribe Falls at No. 1 Virginia

W&M will welcome No. 15 Wake Forest and Longwood to the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center on Saturday, Jan. 26.

01/20/08 4:45PM

Charlottesville, Va. - The No. 43-ranked William and Mary men’s tennis team dropped a 7-0 decision to No. 1-ranked Virginia at the Boyd Tinsley Courts on Sunday, Jan. 20. The Tribe fell to 2-1 on the year, playing the first of its scheduled 15 matches against nationally ranked competition.

In doubles play, the Tribe’s nationally ranked pair of senior Alex Cojnau and Keziel Juneau battled the nation’s top-ranked pair of Somdeve Devvarman and Treat Huey. After UVA had already claimed the doubles point with wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 slots, No. 33-ranked team of Cojanu and Juneau put up a fight before falling to Devvarman and Huey, 8-6, at the top tandems slot.

The Tribe had a pair of matches go to third sets in singles. At the No. 3 slot, Juneau took Virginia’s Sanam Singh to the wire, before falling in a tightly contested third-set super tiebreaker. After Singh won the opening set, 6-3, Juneau rallied to force a decisive third with a tiebreaker win in the second. Singh would outlast the W&M sophomore, 11-9, in the super tiebreaker.

At the No. 6 position, junior Marwan Ramadan forced Lee Singer to three sets. Singer claimed the opening set, 6-4, before Ramadan came roaring back to take the second, 6-1. In the end, it was Singer that prevailed taking the final set, 6-3.

The College will return to action host a pair of matches at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center on Saturday, Jan. 26. W&M will welcome No. 15-ranked Wake Forest to Williamsburg at 10 a.m., before Longwood faces the Tribe at 6 p.m.

#1 Virginia 7, #43 William and Mary 0
Singles
No. 1 – #1 Somdev Devvarman (UVA) def. Alex Cojanu (W&M) – 6-2, 6-4
No. 2 - #12 Treat Huey (UVA) def. Dominic Pagon (W&M) – 6-0, 6-4
No. 3 – Sanam Singh (UVA) def. Keziel Juneau (W&M) – 6-3, 6-7, 11-9
No. 4 – Ted Angelinos (UVA) def. Richard Wardell (W&M) – 6-4, 6-2
No. 5 - #83 Houston Barrick (UVA) def. Alex Zuck (W&M) – 6-4, 6-1
No. 6 – Lee Singer (UVA) def. Marwan Ramadan (W&M) – 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
Singles: 2,5,4*,1,6,3

Doubles
No. 1 - #1 Devvarman/Huey (UVA) def. #33 Cojanu/Juneau (W&M) – 8-6
No. 2 - #25 Barrick/Inglot (UVA) def. Pagon/Wardell (W&M) – 8-4
No. 3 - #17 Angelinos/Singer (UVA) def. Kavi Sud/Sebastien Vidal (W&M) – 8-2
Doubles: 3,2*,1