TYLER, Texas – The Southern Arkansas University Men's Tennis team fell today in Tyler, Texas to the UT-Tyler Patriots by a final score of 2-5.
 
Doubles play began today as Uwe Diehl and Jonas Sommer took their match at line one against Carl Wessel and Daniil Felker defeating the Patriots duo 7 (10) – 6 (6). Frode Neumann and Lucas Nitzschke fell at line two 7-6 to Artiom Dorofeev and Malo Poulesquen. Balsa Djokovic and Taiki Minamino then secured the all-important doubles point for SAU at line three defeating the Patriots Trevor Short and Job Japelj 6-4.
 
Singles play began and SAU picked up another point as Uwe Diehl defeated Jordi Garcia in straight sets (6-3, 7-5). From there the Patriots ripped off five singles wins to take the match and secure the victory for UT-Tyler. Lucas Nitzschke fell at line one to Artiom Dorofeev in three sets (4-6, 6-3, 3-6). Frode Neumann fell at line two to Malo Poulesquen in three sets (6-0, 2-6, 6-1). Balsa Djokovic fell at line three to Carel Wessel in three sets (1-6, 6-3, 5-7). Jonas Sommer fell at line four to Samuel Antwi in straight sets (2-6, 1-6). Finally, Shun Wakino fell to Martin Despodov in straight sets (4-6, 4-6).
 
Up Next
The Muleriders will return to action tomorrow, February 22nd as they play their final match of the weekend in Tyler, Texas against UT-Permian Basin.