{"id":580985,"date":"2026-04-02T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580985\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:43:09","slug":"mens-tennis-falls-at-eku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580985\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Falls at EKU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LStandalonecolor.png\" alt=\"Lipscomb University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p> Lipscomb University<\/p>\n<p>4\/3\/2026 | 2:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 03 (Fri) \/ 2:30 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LStandalonecolor.png\" alt=\"Lipscomb University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Lipscomb University&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"231\" data-start=\"41\">LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 Bellarmine men&#8217;s tennis dropped a 4-1 decision on the road at Eastern Kentucky on Wednesday afternoon at the Greg Adams Tennis Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"458\" data-start=\"233\">The Colonels secured the early advantage by sweeping the doubles point, taking courts one and two by identical 6-2 scores to move ahead 1-0. The third doubles match was left unfinished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"747\" data-start=\"460\">In singles play, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-nice\/9958\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9958\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Nice<\/a> delivered the lone point for the Knights with a strong performance at the top spot. Nice defeated EKU&#8217;s Nuno Pinheiro in straight sets, 7-5, 6-2, to even the match briefly and highlight Bellarmine&#8217;s effort on the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1055\" data-start=\"749\">Eastern Kentucky responded by claiming the remaining completed singles matches. <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/eli-wood\/9961\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9961\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Wood<\/a> and Ryan Perkins each fell in straight sets, while <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/alex-english\/10184\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10184\" target=\"_blank\">Alex English<\/a> was forced to retire in his match. Three other singles contests went unfinished as EKU clinched the team victory.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1136\" data-start=\"1057\">Bellarmine returns to action Friday for Senior Day against Lipscomb at 2:30 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1218\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"1138\">For more coverage of Bellarmine men&#8217;s tennis, follow @BUKnights on X, Instagram, and Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: Lipscomb University 4\/3\/2026 | 2:30 PM &#13; Apr. 03 (Fri) \/ 2:30 PM&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-580985","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\/580985","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=580985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}