CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL
VIDEO RECAP
TULSA, Okla. - USF captured its second consecutive American Athletic Conference men’s tennis championship with a 4-0 win over Tulsa at Case Tennis Center Sunday.
The Bulls won on two of three doubles courts and at No. 2, 4 and 5 singles to clinch the match and The American’s automatic qualifier into the NCAA tournament. Oliver Pramming was named Most Outstanding Player and clinched the match with a win over the Golden Hurricane’s Alejandro Espejo (6-4, 6-3).
USF opened the match by taking the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and 2. Sasha Gozun and Vadym Kalyuzhnyy won at No. 2 over Tulsa’s Matthew Kirby and Dylan McCloskey by a 6-3 margin before Tulsa’s Juan Matias Gonzalez and Carlos Bautista defeated Roberto Cid and Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz at No. 3 (6-3). Pramming and Justin Roberts closed out the doubles point with a 6-3 win at No. 1.
Roberts defeated Bautista at No. 5 (6-4, 6-3) and USF’s Gonzalez-Muniz dropped Gonzalez at No. 4 (7-5, 6-2) before Pramming clinched the match with a win at No. 2.
Both teams will await their seeding and location for the NCAA Championship. The selection show is slated for Tuesday, April 28 at 5:30 p.m.
Doubles Competition
1. No. 31 Oliver Pramming/Justin Roberts (USF) def. Or Ram-Harel/Alejandro Espejo (TU), 6-3
2. Sasha Gozun/Vadym Kalyuzhnyy (USF) def. Matthew Kirby/Dylan McCloskey (TU), 6-3
3. Juan Matias Gonzalez/Carlos Bautista (TU) def. Roberto Cid/Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz (USF), 6-3
(Order of Finish: 2,3,1*)
Singles Competition
1. No. 27 Or Ram-Harel (TU) vs. No. 22 Roberto Cid (USF), DNF
2. Oliver Pramming (USF) def. No. 80 Alejandro Espejo (TU), 6-4, 6-3
3. Mitchell Pritchard (TU) vs. Sasha Gozun (USF), DNF
4. Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz (USF) def. Juan Matias Gonzalez (TU) 7-5, 6-2
5. Justin Roberts (USF) def. Carlos Bautista (TU), 6-4, 6-3
6. Dylan McCloskey (TU) vs. Vadym Kalyuzhnyy (USF), DNF
(Order of Finish: 5,4,2*)