No. 1 Wake Forest ends the 11-match winning strip from A&T

Men's tennis | 16.01.2025 10:29 p.m.

Winston-Salem, Nc- So. Team No. 1 in the nation needed to do it, but the North Carolina A&T tennis team is no longer unbeaten.

The Aggies had to suffer their first loss of the season through the Tenniste team of the top-rank men in the survey of the International Tennis Association (ITA) of Wake Forest Demon Deacons 4-0 in the Wake Forest Tennis Center on Sunday in Wake Forest Tennis Center.

The aggies fell to 11-1, while the Deacs improved to 24: 0.

It was a Clincher's match in which the game or the colon ends when a team won enough points to determine the winner, since the Deacs played the second game of a double header after defeating the 32nd state of Florida a day.

That was the case in doubles. Wake won at No. 3 Doubles 6-3 behind the partnership of Dylan Chang and Harry Thursfield when they defeated in the second year Kaua Santos and junior Mathieu Dussaubat. Wake Forest won the colon when Ioannis Xilas and Franco Capalbo Sophomore Lucas Coupo-Moison and newcomer defeated Jindrich Brill6-2, with No. 2 doubles.

Sophomore Said Akbarov and senior Ian Pedersen were in a competitive 5-5 match with Wake's No. 1 double team from DK Suresh Ekambaram and Martin Mazev when the game lasted because the Deacs had already won the colon.

Wake took over a 2-0 lead when the game started with the singles when Luca Pows Luca Pow won number 2 in retirement, which normally indicates an injury or illness of the opponent, in this case Coupo-Moison. No reason for retirement was given. Wake increased his leadership at Singles No. 6 when Cornelius Shalmi Dussaubat defeated 6: 1, 6: 2.

The Clincher on Sunday came at Singles No. 3. Joaquin Guilleme defeated Santos 6: 2, 6: 3 to give the Deacs the necessary points to win the game. The other games are still playing when Guilleme gathered for Wake Ian Pedersen At position no. 1.

Pedersen lost his first sentence to Xilas, but led in the second 5: 3 before the end of the game. Akbarov also had a second lead in Singles No. 4. He lost the first sentence to Thursfield 6-4 before scored a 4: 3 advantage in the second. Similar to No. 5 -Singles, where Brill lost the first sentence to Chang. He did not have the lead in the second set, but it was still close because he only left 4: 3 in the second.

A&T recently added another ITA rank team to the schedule. The Aggies will compete against the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, March 29, at 5 p.m. in Athens, GA. The next game of A&T will take place on Monday at 1 p.m. against Queens University of Charlotte in the Howard Levine Tennis Center in Charlotte, NC.