{"id":401961,"date":"2026-01-11T05:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:40:07","slug":"fgcu-falls-4-3-to-louisiana-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401961\/","title":{"rendered":"FGCU falls 4-3 to Louisiana in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Gulf Coast University men&#8217;s tennis team opened its season against Louisiana on Saturday but fell 4\u20133 to the Ragin&#8217; Cajuns despite a late rally.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles (0\u20131) dropped the doubles point, with the lone win coming from <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/pablo-paternostro\/10000\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10000\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Paternostro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/mika-bunjes\/9996\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9996\" target=\"_blank\">Mika Bunjes<\/a> on court No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>In singles play, <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/harry-michalowski\/9998\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9998\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Michalowski<\/a> fell to extend Louisiana&#8217;s lead to 2\u20130, and Bunjes&#8217;\u00a0loss put FGCU in a 3\u20130 hole. The Eagles responded as Paternostro earned a 6\u20133, 6\u20134 win on court No. 3 to get FGCU on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Newcomer <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/tanner-povey\/10331\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10331\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Povey<\/a> battled to a 7\u20136 (5), 6\u20134 victory on court No. 1, cutting the deficit. <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jonathan-baron\/10005\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10005\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Baron<\/a> then evened the match for the Eagles, winning 7\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133 on court No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The match came down to court No. 5, where <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/gustav-hasslegren\/10006\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10006\" target=\"_blank\">Gustav Hasslegren<\/a> dropped the first set 6\u20131, rallied to win the second 7\u20136 (6), but ultimately fell 6\u20132 in the deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles return to action Sunday to face host and No. 14 UCF at 2 p.m. in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Singles<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/tanner-povey\/10331\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10331\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Povey<\/a> (FGCU) def. Mason Landreth (UL) 7\u20136 (7\u20135), 6\u20134<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/jonathan-baron\/10005\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10005\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Baron<\/a> (FGCU) def. Leonard Tramolay (UL) 7\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/pablo-paternostro\/10000\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10000\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Paternostro<\/a> (FGCU) def. Darius Balan (UL) 6\u20133, 6\u20134<br \/>\n\tDavid Simeonov (UL) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/mika-bunjes\/9996\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9996\" target=\"_blank\">Mika Bunjes<\/a> (FGCU) 6\u20133, 6\u20134<br \/>\n\tSamuel Kyjaci (UL) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/gustav-hasslegren\/10006\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10006\" target=\"_blank\">Gustav Hasslegren<\/a> (FGCU) 6\u20131, 6\u20137 (6\u20138), 6\u20132<br \/>\n\tNikola Kolyachev (UL) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/harry-michalowski\/9998\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9998\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Michalowski<\/a> (FGCU) 6\u20131, 6\u20133<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nOrder of finish \u2013 6,4,3,1,2,5<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDoubles<\/p>\n<p>\tLandreth\/Tramolay (UL) def. Baron\/Hasslegren (FGCU) 6\u20134<br \/>\n\tPaternostro\/Bunjes (FGCU) def. Kyjaci\/Simeonov (UL) 6\u20134<br \/>\n\tKolyachev\/Balan (UL) def. Hadjivarnava\/Michalowski (FGCU) 6\u20134<\/p>\n<p>Order of finish \u2013 1,2,3<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n                    Read Full Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Gulf Coast University men&#8217;s tennis team opened its season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-401961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}