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Indianapolis UINDYM
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Daniel Grey vs. Lawrence Tech (02/01/2024)
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Daniel Grey picked up the lone singles win for the Warriors at Indianapolis.

Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Matthew Jurek, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Men's Tennis Upended 4-1 by #7-Indianapolis

WSU split its two matches at the UIndy Tennis Center after Saturday's triumph vs. Washburn.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Wayne State University men's tennis squad (3-1 overall) suffered its first loss of the 2024 season on Sunday morning, falling 4-1 to #7-Indianapolis at the UIndy Tennis Center.

The Warriors and Greyhounds will meet again on Sunday, March 3, in Detroit.

DOUBLES
UIndy gained the upper hand with the opening doubles point by snagging two of the three contests.

The lone WSU victory came from the duo of Dom Spicer (London, England) and Luke Laws (Sunderland, England) at the No. 2 spot.  They handled Louis Picaud and Erwan Momo Andre by a 6-3 tally.

The nation's fifth-ranked tandem of Cedric Drenth (Sulzbach, Germany) and Daniel Grey (Wiesbaden, Germany) lost by the same 6-3 score to Tom Zeuch and Matthieu Derache at the first flight, while Joe Steele (Beverly Hills, Mich. / U. of Detroit Jesuit) and Emil Mikkelsen (Soenderborg, Denmark) dropped their match 6-1 to Pedro Franca and David Simeonov at the No. 3 position.

SINGLES
In a contest that was play-to-clinch for a second consecutive day, it was Indianapolis to reach the fourth point first.

First to finish was the affair at the No. 1 spot, in which Drenth was at for the first time season after being there 26 times in 2023.  The junior lost 6-4, 6-3 to Zeuch, the second-ranked singles player in Division II and the Midwest Region.

Wayne State's one singles triumph came from Grey at the second flight.  He downed Simeonov 6-2, 6-4 to improve to 3-1 on the campaign.

Indianapolis claimed the last two finished contests.  Derache, the 24th-ranked player in the country, defeated Laws by matching 6-4 set scores at the fourth spot, while Spicer fell 6-4, 6-3 to Picaud at the No. 3 position.

Denali Kitayama (West Bloomfield Township, Mich. / Walled Lake Central (United States Air Force Academy)) and Benjamin Hill (Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) did not finish at the fifth and sixth flights.  Kitayama earned a 7-5 win in the opening set against Momo Andre, and was trailing 5-2 late in the second set when the match concluded prematurely.

Hill and Manuel Lanteri each claimed set wins of 6-2 to set up a final set, and the freshman Warrior led 1-0 when the match ended.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will receive another opportunity to compete in the ITA National Indoor Championship next weekend, once again in Indianapolis at the UIndy Tennis Center.  The Warriors are an eight seed and will draw the four-time defending National Champion Barry University (the No. 1 seed) on Friday, February 16, at 5:30 p.m.  It will be a second straight appearance at the event for the Green and Gold.

 
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