Mustangs Fall To Top-Seeded Wake Forest On ITA Indoors Day One

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Mustangs Fall To Top-Seeded Wake Forest On ITA Indoors Day One

Feb 14 | Men's Tennis

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DALLAS (SMU) – SMU Men's Tennis fell 4-0 to top-seeded Wake Forest 4-3 on the ITA National Indoor Championship opening day at Styslinger / Altec Tennis Complex on Friday.

SMU battled the second-ranked Demon Deacons in a match that lasted over 2 hours.

The Mustangs are now 7-4 in the season. They will resume their ITA National Indoor Championship campaign in the back draw beginning Saturday.

How it Went
SMU's pair of Maks Silagy and Georgi Georgiev dropped the day's first match with a loss to Stefan Dostanic and DK Suresh Ekambaram (6-3). The Mustangs dropped the doubles point as Vikas Deo and Xavier Calvelo fell to Ioannis Xilas and Franco Capalbo (6-3)

Wake Forest's Luca Pow scored the match's second point with a win over Noah McDonald (6-2, 6-1).

The Deacs' seventh-ranked DK Suresh Ekambaram and Luciano Tacchi won their matches to clinch the match at 4-0 for Wake Forest.

Doubles Scores
1. Stefan Dostanic / DK Suresh Ekambaram def. Georgi Georgiev / Maks Silagy (6-3)
2. Trevor Svajda / Louis Cloud vs. No. 3 Luciano Tacchi / Luca Pow (6-6 UF)
3. Ioannis Xilas / Franco Capalbo def. Vikas Deo / Xavier Calvelo (6-3)
Order of Finish: 1, 3

Singles Scores
1. No. 70 Trevor Svajda vs. No. 17 Stephan Dostanic (6(5)-7, 1-3, UF)
2. No. 7 DK Suresh Ekambaram def. Jerry Barton (6-4, 6-4)
3. Ofek Shimanov vs. No. 98 Charlie Robertson (6(5), 1-4, UF)
4. Georgi Georgiev vs. No. 100 Ioannis Xalis (6-4, 2-3 UF)
5. Luciano Tacchi def. Maks Silagy (7-5, 6-0)
6. Luca Pow def. Noah McDonald (6-2, 6-1)
Order of Finish: 6, 2, 5

What's Next?
SMU will face the loser of No. 4 Seed Kentucky versus fifth-seeded NC State in the back draw at 6:30 pm CT on Saturday. Kentucky and NC State face each other on Friday evening.