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DALLAS – USF continued its remarkable run in the American Athletic Conference Men's Tennis Championship as the Bulls advanced to the championship match for the fifth straight year, while Tulane will play for the conference title for the first time after both teams took semifinal victories Saturday at Turpin Stadium on the SMU campus.
 
Fifth-seeded USF was a 4-3 winner against top-seeded Memphis, while No. 2-seeded Tulane defeated No. 3-seeded UCF 4-2 in Saturday's semifinals.
 
Live coverage of The American Men's Tennis Championship will be on the American Digital Network at noon CT/1 p.m. ET Sunday. Live scoring of the match, can be found on the conference’s Championship Central site.
 
 
USF 4, Memphis 3
Records: USF (10-15), Memphis (18-5)
Pierre Luquet won a second-set tiebreaker at No. 4 singles to get the clinching point and send USF to its fifth straight American Athletic Conference Championship final as the Bulls eliminated top-seeded Memphis Saturday.
 
The win improved USF to 14-0 all-time in the American Athletic Conference Championship as the Bulls seek their fifth consecutive conference title. Memphis, ranked No. 18 nationally, saw its 13-match winning streak come to an end.
 
Luquet's win at No. 4 came minutes after USF's Grayson Goldin scored a three-set win at No. 3 singles as the Bulls scored the final two team points. The two late wins allowed USF to split the singles ladder with Memphis, leaving the Bulls' team point in doubles as the deciding factor in the win.
 
The Bulls won at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles to get on the board first as the pairing of Goldin and Alberto Barroso-Campos took a 6-3 win against Memphis' 38th-ranked tandem at the top of the ladder, and Peter Bertran joined Jakub Wojcik for a 6-2 victory at No. 2.
 
After inclement weather moved the competition indoors for singles, the teams split the first two singles matches that were completed as USF built a 2-1 lead, but Memphis' two nationally ranked singles players deliered wins at the top two spots, giving the Tigers a 3-2 lead with two matches remaining.
 
USF, needing both wins to claim the match, saw Goldin take a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 win at No. 3 to tie the score at 3-3. Luquet was locked in a 6-6 tie in the second set against Memphs' Chris Patzanvsky at No. 4, but Luquet took the tiebreaker 7-0 to send the Bulls to the final.
 
 

	SINGLES (order of finish: 6, 5, 2, 1, 3, 4)
1.	No. 39 Ryan Peniston (Memphis) def. No. 67 Alberto Barroso-Campos (USF)	7-5, 6-4
2.	No. 106 Andrew Watson (Memphis) def. Peter Bertran (USF)	6-3, 6-4
3.	Grayson Goldin (USF) def. Kai Lemke (Memphis)	6-3, 3-6, 6-4
4.	Pierre Luquet (USF) def. Chris Patzanovsky (Memphis)	6-4, 7-6 (0)
5.	Jakup Wojcik (USF) def. Felix Rauch (Memphis)	6-2, 6-4
6.	Jan Pallares (Memphis) def. Sean Burnette (USF)	6-2, 6-0
	DOUBLES (order of finish: 2, 1)
1.	No. 67 Alberto Barroso-Campos/Grayson Goldin (USF) def. No. 38 Ryan Peniston/Andrew Watson(Memphis)	6-3
2.	Peter Bertran/Jakub Wojcik (USF) def. Kai Lemke/Felix Rauch (Memphis)	6-2
3.	Jan Pallares/Matt Story (Memphis) vs. Sean Burnette/Pierre Luquet (USF)	unfinished

 
 
 
Tulane 4, UCF 2
Records: Tulane (17-6), UCF (11-10)
Tulane, the No. 2 seed in The American Championship, advanced to the tournament final for the first time as the Green Wave wasa  4-2 winner against No. 3-seeded UCF Saturday in the second semifinal at Turpin Stadium.
 
The No. 29-ranked Green Wave took four of the five completed singles matches after UCF had opened the match by taking the doubles point. Senior Constantin Schmitz, who is ranked No. 14 nationally in the Oracle/ITA individual rankings, was a 6-4, 6-4 winner at No. 1 singles and Luis Erlenbush took the No. 4 singles match 6-2, 6-2.
 
Tyler Schick battled back at No. 5 singles after dropping the first set to give Tulane a 3-1 lead, but UCF stayed alive after Danny Kerznerman won a straight-set victory at No. 6. Tulane needed to win only one of the two remaining matches to clinch it, however, and Hamish Stewart came through with a second-set tiebreaker win at No. 3 singles.
 
Tulane, which had been 0-3 all-time in the semifinal round of The American Championship, will look for its first conference title Sunday.
 

	SINGLES (order of finish: 4, 1, 5, 6, 3)
1.	No. 14 Constantin Schmitz (Tulane) def. Korey Lovett (UCF)	6-4, 6-4
2.	No. 105 Ewan Moore (Tulane) vs. Gabriel Decamps (UCF)	unfinished
3.	Hamish Stewart (Tulane) def. Alan Rubio (UCF)	6-1, 7-6 (3)
4.	Luis Erlenbusch (Tulane) def. Mikhail Sokolvskiy (UCF)	6-2, 6-2
5.	Tyler Schick (Tulane) def. Eero Vasa (UCF)	1-6, 6-3, 6-0
6.	Danny Kerznerman (UCF) def. Tim Ruetzel (Tulane)	6-2, 6-4
	DOUBLES (order of finish: 2, 3)
1.	No. 52 Ewan Moore/Constantin Schmitz (Tulane) vs. No. 3 Korey Lovett/Eero Vasa (UCF)	unfinished
2.	Enrique Paya/Alan Rubio (UCF)/Tyler Schick/Hamish Stewart (Tulane)	6-1
3.	Gabriel Decamps/Danny Kerznerman (UCF) def. Luis Erlenbusch/Tim Ruetzel (Tulane)	6-2

 
 
 
 
AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN’S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
April 19-22 | Dallas Texas
 

First Round | Thursday, April 19
Match 1: No. 8 Temple 4, No. 9 SMU 3
Match 2: No. 7 ECU 4, No. 10 UConn 0
Quarterfinals | Friday, April 20
Match 3: No. 1 Memphis 4, Temple 1
Match 4: No. 5 USF 4, No. 4 Wichita State 3
Match 5: No. 2 Tulane 4, ECU 1
Match 6: No. 3 UCF 4, No. 6 Tulsa 3
Semifinals | Saturday, April 21
Match 7: USF 4, Memphis 3
Match 8: Tulane 4, UCF 2
Final | Sunday, April 22 | American Digital Network
Match 9: USF (10-15) vs. Tulane (17-6)	Noon

 
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