TROY, Ala. – Troy men’s tennis claimed two wins against West Alabama, 4-0 and 6-1, in doubleheader matches on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Troy (4-2) set the bar with a\u00a0doubles clinch in the morning match after freshman Ryusei Miyazato<\/a> and freshman Steph Tavares Noale won 6-4 on Court 1, as well as junior Luciano Alcocer<\/a> and sophomore Thiago Drozdowski<\/a> wrapping up a 6-2 victory on Court 3.<\/p>\n Sophomore Hiiro Sakamoto<\/a> took control as the singles came along, earning the first singles point with Tavares Noale and freshman Ausias Martin Melo<\/a> following behind.<\/p>\n As the afternoon matches started, the Trojans continued with their winning momentum through the doubles once again, but singles took a slight turn as the UWA Tigers came back just as strong. Graduate Afonso Portugal took the win on Court 2 with a finished match against senior Yeray Andres Pastor<\/a>, adding a point for UWA.<\/p>\n However, Troy took the remaining five single courts, including a 6-1, 6-4 victory from Sakamoto to clinch the afternoon match.<\/p>\n Looking ahead, the Trojans will hit the road to Georgia for their match against Kennesaw State at the Betty Siegel Courts Saturday afternoon at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n Full Results <\/p>\n Troy 4, UWA 0<\/p>\n \u00a0Order of Finish: 3, 1<\/p>\n
Order of Finish: 5, 3, 6 Order of Finish: 3, 2<\/p>\n Order of finish: 5, 6, 4, 1, 2, 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROY, Ala. – Troy men’s tennis claimed two wins against West Alabama, 4-0 and 6-1, in doubleheader matches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-456927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\u00a0Luciano Alcocer<\/a> (TROY) vs. Jacob Tapia (UWA) match was unfinished 6-7
\n\tYeray Andres Pastor<\/a> (TROY) vs. Afonso Portugal (UWA) match was unfinished 6-2 2-5
\n\t\u00a0Ausias Martin Melo<\/a> (TROY) def. Matias Iturbe (UWA) 6-3 6-4
\n\t\u00a0Ryusei Miyazato<\/a> (TROY) vs. Sebastiao Vilas (UWA) match was unfinished 6-4 5-5
\n\t\u00a0Hiiro Sakamoto<\/a> (TROY) def. Joan Ramis Pascual (UWA) 6-0 6-3
\n\tSteph Tavares Noale (TROY) def. Itaru Kikuchi (UWA) 6-4 6-2
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\nTroy 6, UWA 1<\/p>\n