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Wayne State WSUM (6-6)
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Winner Flagler FLG (8-2)
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Flagler FLG
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Daniel Grey vs. Indianapolis (03/03/2024)
Hyelim Shin
Daniel Grey scored WSU's lone point with a 6-4, 6-4 singles victory vs. Flagler.

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

Men's Tennis Drops 4-1 Decision to #6-Flagler

The Warriors will finish another back-to-back set on Sunday at Embry-Riddle.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The eighth-ranked Wayne State University men's tennis squad (6-6 overall) lost 4-1 to sixth-ranked Flagler (8-2 overall) on Saturday afternoon in a neutral site contest at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.

It was WSU's second match of the Spring Break trip at the site of last season's NCAA Championships.  The Warriors had defeated Sacred Heart 5-2 there on Wednesday in what was deemed an exhibition match for the Green and Gold, as of March 29.

DOUBLES
Flagler opened the scoring with the doubles point, which put the Saints ahead 1-0 early.

Both of the Green and Gold's nationally-ranked tandems lost to their FC opponents.  Fourth-ranked Cedric Drenth (Sulzbach, Germany) and Daniel Grey (Wiesbaden, Germany) suffered a 6-4 setback to Philipp Lemken and Simon Malis at the first flight, while fifth-ranked Luke Laws (Sunderland, England) and Dom Spicer (London, England) fell 6-2 to No. 30-ranked Baptiste Mercier and Ilian Borlee at the No. 2 position.

That was all Flagler needed to secure the point.  Action at the No. 3 spot went unfinished, as Benjamin Hill (Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ) and Joe Steele (Beverly Hills, Mich. / U. of Detroit Jesuit) were trailing 5-3 to Jacopo Denitto and Max Berner when play stopped.

SINGLES
The Saints won three of the four singles matches to emerge victorious.

The Wayne State triumph belonged to Grey at the first position, as the 13th-ranked senior collected a 6-4, 6-4 win over No. 10-ranked Denitto for his eighth victory of the season at the first flight.

Spicer had back-to-back 6-1 losses vs. Malis (ranked No. 57) at the No. 3 spot, while Denali Kitayama (West Bloomfield Township, Mich. / Walled Lake Central (United States Air Force Academy)) played in singles only and dropped decisions of 6-1 and 6-4 to Borlee at the fourth flight.

Laws competed at the No. 5 position and went down 6-2, 6-4 vs. Lemken, who was ranked 44th in the country.

The other two matches did not reach a conclusion.  Drenth (ranked No. 18) split 6-4 wins with the third-ranked Mercier, as each claimed a set at the second flight.  Hill lost his first set 6-1 to Makary Adamek at the final singles position (No. 6), and was behind 5-3 in the second set when it reached a premature finish.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will finish its second back-to-back set of the Spring Break trip on Sunday at #33-Embry-Riddle.  The match is set for 1 p.m. from the Crotty Tennis Complex in Daytona Beach, Fla.

 
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