MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama men's tennis team swept Saturday's doubleheader versus Lamar and Nicholls State at the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts.

South Alabama got its first win of the spring season against Lamar on Saturday afternoon, 4-0. The Jaguars started strong by winning the doubles point and continued to control the match in singles play.

The Jags won the doubles point against Nicholls behind wins at the No. 1 and No. 3 positions and then picked up wins in five of the six singles matches versus the Colonels to end the day.

Date: 2/1
Place: Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts (Mobile, Ala.)

SOUTH ALABAMA 4, LAMAR 0
DOUBLES
1. Loïc Cloes/Sébastien Collard (USA) def. Nicolas Mayr/Axel Vila Antuna (Lamar), 6-3
2. Clément Marzol/Leon Pet'ko (USA) def. Blessing Benibo/Joshua Taylor (Lamar), 7-5
3. Jordan Coutinho/Martin Bugaj (USA) tied Carlos Paton Canal/Joshua Sundaram (Lamar), 5-5, unfinished
Order of Finish: (1, 2)

SINGLES
1. Marzol (USA) def. Vila Antuna (LU), 6-2, 6-4
2. Cloes (USA) leading Paton Canal (LU), 6-3, 5-3, unfinished
3. Delcour (USA) leading Mayr (LU), 7-5, 2-3, unfinished
4. Collard (USA) def. Sebastian Santibanez (LU), 6-3, 6-0
5. Bugaj (USA) def. Filippo Salsini (LU), 6-3, 6-3
6. Coutinho, (USA) trailing Sundaram (LU), 4-6, 3-4, unfinished
Order of Finish: (1, 4, 5)

NOTES
- Cloes started off doubles play with four straight aces and had three on in the final game of the final point.
- Marzol and Pet'ko came back from a 5-3 deficit to clinch the doubles point for the Jaguars, winning 7-5.
- Saturday marked the first doubles point won by South Alabama of the season.
- South Alabama improved to 1-3 while Lamar fell to 0-4.
- The Jaguars improved to 8-1 in the all-time series against Lamar.
- Saturday was just the second series meeting in Mobile.

SOUTH ALABAMA 6, NICHOLLS STATE 1
DOUBLES
1. Marzol/Collard (USA) def. Piyush Surendra Salekar/Ricardo De Sales Chaves Machado (NSU), 6-3
2. Pavle Drobnjakovic/Omar Hussein (NSU) leading Pet'ko/Delcour (USA), 5-2 unfinished
3. Cloes/Ezra Blissard (USA) def. Prasanna Pravi Bagade/Adam Larsen (NSU), 6-1
Order of Finish: (3, 1)

SINGLES
1. Cloes (USA) def. Salekar (NSU), 7-6 (4), 6-4
2. Delcour (USA) def. Drobnjakovic (NSU), 6-0, 6-0
3. Collard (USA) def. Machado (NSU), 6-3, 6-2
4. Bugaj (USA) def. Hussein (NSU), 6-4, 6-0
5. Pet'ko (USA) def. Bagade (NSU), 1-6, 6-1, 10-5
6. Antoine Martin-Thiriat (NSU) def. Blissard (USA), 6-1, 6-1
Order of Finish: (2, 4, 3, 6, 1, 5)

NOTES
- The Jags went 4-0 in doubles matches today after failing to win a doubles match in their first three duals of the season.
- Three Jaguar student-athletes collected their first career singles dual win: Bugaj, Collard and Pet'ko.
- Cloes improved to 2-0 in single duals with his win over Salekar (7-6 (4), 6-4). It was his first victory at the No. 1 position in dual
 play this spring.
- The Jags had five new partner combinations in today's doubles matches.   
- South improved to 11-1 in the all-time series versus Nicholls, and all 12 of those meetings have come in Mobile.
- The men have added a match Feb. 14 vs Xavier (La.) in Mobile scheduled for 2 p.m.

UP NEXT
-South Alabama will travel to Coral Gables, Fla. to take on the University of Miami (Fla.) on Friday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m.

THEY SAID IT
Head coach Nick Brochu
- On today's matches:
"First off, it felt good to play at home. We had a good turnout from our fans today. Secondly, it was two good wins for us today and I was really happy with the way the guys reacted to the changes in the lineup. We had some different doubles pairs, and pretty much everyone today played with a new partner in both matches. Our team chemistry was there today, which was something we had focused on; everyone had energy celebrating their teammates throughout the match, which raised everyone's level of play."
- On intensity of the two matches:
"We played Lamar as if it were the final of the conference tournament championship. In the second match against Nicholls, we decided to sit some players in order to give our freshmen a chance to step up at a higher position."
- On the improved play in doubles:  
"We were very aggressive in doubles, which we had been lacking over the first three matches. It's been a weakness for us, but we've worked on that and today that hard work paid off. We played well on big points and won a lot of no-ads."
- On the play of Collard:
"I was very happy with the way Sébastien [Collard] was playing today. He gave us two big wins, two quick wins playing at the No. 4 and No. 3 spots. It was good for him because he's definitely capable playing big tennis. It's just a matter of him believing that he's capable of playing at those positions, and that's what he showed today.
- On building on today's wins heading back out on the road next weekend:
"Overall, our performance was good and we did what we needed to in order to win. Next weekend against Miami and Florida Atlantic, the level of play is going to be even higher, so we were trying to build our momentum towards that today."

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