MOBILE, Ala.  – The University of South Alabama men's tennis team defeated Coastal Carolina 4-2 on Friday afternoon at the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts.
 
Jack Clements and Louis Delcour opened up doubles with a 6-3 win on court one. Coastal Carolina answered with a win on court three to tie things up. Sébastien Collard and Maxime St-Hilaire clinched the doubles point for the Jags with a victory on court two.
 
In singles, the Jags took the first set on four of the six courts. Delcour won in straight sets on court three to put South Alabama up 2-0. The Chanticleers won on court six to cut the lead to 2-1. Collard put the Jags up 3-1 with a two-set victory on court one. Coastal took court five to make it 3-2. St-Hilaire clinched the match for South with a three-set win on court four.
 
Date: 3/25
Place: Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts
Records: South Alabama 11-6 (2-1), Coastal Carolina 8-9 (1-2)
 
DOUBLES
1. Clements/Delcour (USA) def. Diego Giraldo/Federico Garnier (Coastal Carolina) 6-3
2. Collard/St-Hilaire (USA) def. Niccolo Rossi/Bastien Huon (Coastal Carolina) 7-6(5)
3. Carlos Berna Ruiz/Steve Mundt (Coastal Carolina) def. Martin Bugaj/Philip Bosman (USA) 6-3
Order of Finish: (1,3,2)
 
SINGLES
1. Collard (USA) def. Huon (Coastal Carolina) 6-1, 7-6(1)
2. Clements (USA) vs. Garnier (Coastal Carolina) 6-4, 6-7(5), 4-4, UF
3. Delcour (USA) def. Giraldo (Coastal Carolina) 6-1, 6-3
4. St-Hilaire (USA) def. Rossi (Coastal Carolina) 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
5. Daiki Tanabe (Coastal Carolina) def. Javier Montoya (USA) 7-6(4), 7-5
6. Neil O'Connor (Coastal Carolina) def. Bugaj (USA) 6-4, 6-1
Order of Finish: (3,2,1,5,4)
 
NOTES
- South Alabama improves to 3-0 all-time against Coastal Carolina.
- The Jags are now 7-0 at home this season.
- The 7-0 start at home is the best since the 2017 team won its first eight home matches.
- Delcour improved to 10-4 this spring in singles and is 20-7 overall this season.
- Clements and Delcour are 8-5 at the No. 1 spot in doubles this spring and are 12-5 overall this season.
- Collard and St-Hilaire are 10-2 in doubles action and have won seven of their past eight matches playing at No. 2 in doubles.
- Collard has 54 wins in his singles career at South and is 20-7 this season.
- St-Hilaire is 10-4 this spring in singles action.
 
THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Nick Brochu
- On today's performance:
"It was a very long day, we played for almost four hours. Today was a rough day. We had some guys play very well and other guys that had a bad day but that's college tennis. It's not like other sports where you can just give the ball to your top scorer and he carries the team on his back. We have to play on six courts. So, if you are having a bad day, you are out there by yourself. Some matches we did well and some matches we had a bad day and didn't win. I think we need to learn from today. Coastal is a team that is getting better and better. Chris [Powers] does a great job. Coastal Carolina's guys fought really hard. We won the doubles point and went into singles with the momentum. It looked like this was going to be a short match but Coastal fought back and give credit to them. They really took it to us and started winning one match at a time and then all of sudden the match started getting tight. Seb [Collard] and Louis [Delcour], our two captains, stepped up big time. They got us two big points at two big positions and I'm very proud of them. We need our captains and today they did a great job."
 
- On having a bad day and coming out with a win:
"If it was earlier in the season, I'd be happy. Winning ugly at the beginning of the season is good but this late in the season, days like today shouldn't happen. We had a couple of big matches last weekend and we tried to learn from them. Today, some guys made the same mistakes as last week or even worse. So, they took a step back. I'm not really happy about today and we really need to bounce back tomorrow."
 
UP NEXT
- The Jags will host New Orleans on Saturday at 2 p.m. (CST) at the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts.
 
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