Feb. 17, 2008
DAVIS, Calif. - UC Davis was defeated by San Francisco, 6-1, Sunday in a non-conference men's tennis match at the Marya Welch Tennis Center. Tyler Lee accounted for the lone Aggie point with a win in singles while Daniel Elefant and Michael Reiser also picked up a win in doubles. The Dons won the doubles point before winning five times in singles. UC Davis fell to 5-4 on the year while USF improved to 4-2.
USF won a tightly contested doubles point by claiming a pair of tiebreakers. The first match to finish was at No. 2 where Daniel Elefant and Michael Reiser defeated USF's Rainer Nachbauer and Thong Tu, 8-2. At No. 1, Asaf Cohen and Falko Huettenberger outlasted Justin Garcia and Henri Landes, 9-8. The duo won the tiebreaker, 7-2.
With both teams posting a win in doubles, the clinching match came down to No. 3 where Torin Ching and Mitch Del Rosario won a 7-4 tiebreaker over Nic Amaroli and Kevin Liang, giving the Dons a 1-0 lead heading to singles.
Huettenberger was the first to win in singles, defeating Elefant, 6-1, 6-4, at No. 5. The win put USF up 2-0 in the match. Tu made it 3-0 with a 7-5 (6), 6-1 victory at No.1 over Landes.
Tyler Lee kept the Aggies alive with a three-set victory at No. 6 over Ching. The UC Davis sophomore won, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, to pull UC Davis within 3-1. That would be the first of four three-set marathons to finish in singles. The next three, however, would go to USF. Einar Hart's win at No. 4 over Nick Lopez proved to be the clincher as it gave USF a 4-1 lead. Cohen and Nachbauer would post victories at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, to close out the scoring.
UC Davis is next in action Friday when it hosts Gonzaga at 1:30 p.m.
San Francisco 6, UC Davis 1
Singles
1. Thong Tu (USF) d. Henri Landes (UCD), 7-6 (5), 6-1.
2. Asaf Cohen (USF) d. Michael Reiser (UCD), 7-5, 3-6, 6-1.
3. Rainer Nachbauer (USF) d. Justin Garcia (UCD), 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
4. Einar Hart (USF) d. Nick Lopez (UCD), 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
5. Falko Huettenberger (USF) d. Daniel Elefant (UCD), 6-1, 6-4.
6. Tyler Lee (UCD) d. Torin Ching (USF), 6-3, 1-6, 6-2.
Doubles
1. Cohen/Huettenberger (USF) d. Garcia/Landes (UCD), 9-8 (2).
2. Elefant/Reiser (UCD) d. Nachbauer/Tu (USF), 8-2.
3. Ching/Mitch Del Rosario (USF) d. Nic Amaroli / Kevin Liang (UCD), 9-8 (4).
