TALLAHASSEE, Fla.\u00a0– Virginia Tech battled but fell 5-1 to No. 50 Florida State.<\/p>\n
The Hokies opened the match in strong fashion, securing the doubles point. Blake Hilsen<\/a> and Eyal Shumilov<\/a> earned a 6-2 win over No. 15 Erik Schiessl and Luis Felipe Miguel, while Frank Thompson<\/a> and Drew Fishback<\/a> followed with a 7-5 victory to clinch the point.<\/p>\n Virginia Tech continued to compete throughout singles play despite the final score. Florida State moved ahead 3-1, but the Hokies showed resilience across the remaining courts.<\/p>\n Julian Lozano<\/a> pushed his opponent in a tight match before falling 5-7, 4-6. Ilyas Fahim<\/a> battled but came up short, 2-6, 6-7 (5-7), against No. 121 Luis Felipe Miguel, and Drew Fishback<\/a> held a 7-6 (7-4), 6-5 lead over No. 124 Azariah Rusher when play was stopped.<\/p>\n Singles<\/p>\n #121 Luis Felipe Miguel (FSU) def. llyas Fahim (VT) 6-2, 7-6 (5-7) Doubles\u00a0<\/p>\n Blake Hilsen<\/a>\/Eyal Shumilov<\/a> (VT) def. #15 Erik Schiessl\/Luis Felipe Miguel (FSU) 6-2 \u00a0<\/p>\n UP NEXT: Virginia Tech returns home to face Louisville on Friday, April 3, at the Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla.\u00a0– Virginia Tech battled but fell 5-1 to No. 50 Florida State. The Hokies opened the match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-213195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#92 Erik Schiessl (FSU) def. Eyal Shumilov<\/a> (VT) 6-2, 6-4
\nMohammad Alkotop (FSU) def. Julian Lozano<\/a> (VT) 7-5, 6-4
\n#124 Azariah Rusher (FSU) vs. Drew Fishback<\/a> (VT) 6-7 (4-7), 5-6, unfinished
\nJustin Lyons (FSU) def. Blake Hilsen<\/a> (VT) 6-1, 6-2
\nGabor Hornung (FSU) def. Frank Thompson<\/a> (VT) 6-4, 6-0<\/p>\n
\nJustin Lyons\/Mohammad Alkotop (FSU) def. llyas Fahim\/Patrik Jurina<\/a> (VT) 6-1
\nFrank Thompson<\/a>\/Drew Fishback<\/a> (VT) def. Oren Ezerzer\/Gabor Hornung (FSU) 7-5<\/p>\n