Box Score

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of South Alabama men's tennis team (1-2) dropped its consolation match at the ITA Kickoff to Pepperdine, 4-2, in Gainesville.

DOUBLES
- Loic Cloes and Clement Marzol took down Pepperdine's Dennis Upensky and Nicholas Baez, 6-3.
- Santiago di Loreto and Olivier Gingras fell to Pepperdine's Dane Esses and Brian Berdusco, 6-4.
- Maxime Lapraille and Lucas Gonzalez clinched the doubles point for the Jags by defeating Yusuf Khamis and Max Mendelsohn 7-6.
 
SINGLES
-  Marzol took the first set, but dropped the next two and fell to Upsenksy 6-7, 6-4, 6-2.
- Gingras dropped his match, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6, to Khamis.
- Cloes dropped the first set of his singles match 4-6 to Berdusco. However, Cloes took the next two, 6-1, 7-6, fighting off four match points in the third-set tiebreak, to take his singles match.
- Gonzalez fell to Esses 7-6, 6-0.
- di Loreto fell to Baez 6-3, 7-5, for Pepperdine to clinch the match.
- Lapraille's match went unfinished as Pepperdine had clinched the match.
 
THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Nick Brochu
On today's match: "We battled for five and a half hours. It was such a physical match. We had our opportunity to win, but you could see that we are a young team that needs to mature before we can pull off big upsets. One thing is for sure, we know we have the talent to beat top-30 teams."
 
On doubles play: "The day started great by winning an important doubles point. Our number three team (Maxime Lapraille and Lucas Gonzalez) came up big in the tiebreaker. Playing indoors made it very exciting."
 
On the closing matches of singles play: "The last three matches were really close, but we got nervous on big points."
 
Takeaways from the today: "We will take a lot from today. We have the talent, but we need to rise up on big points. We talked about how bad this loss will sting, but that we'll learn from it. It's good for our freshmen to experience this early in their career to help them grow to be better in tough situations."
 
UP NEXT
The Jags are scheduled for a home match on Sunday against New Orleans.
 
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