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No. 64 Privateers Slip Past No. 63 Cajuns 4-3

4/9/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis

No. 64 Privateers Slip Past No. 63 Cajuns 4-3

NEW ORLEANS – Four matches went to a third set, but Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns men's tennis team couldn't capitalize on the opportunity to prevail in a 4-3 loss to New Orleans here Wednesday afternoon.

No. 63 UL Lafayette fell to 8-8, while the No. 64-ranked Privateers improve to 15-4. The Cajuns are now 1-6 this season against nationally-ranked opponents. All seven matches were played on the road.

Senior and No. 77-ranked Jakub Ilowski, once ranked as high as No. 48 in the ITA Rankings, dropped his third consecutive match and fell to 9-4 after a 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 loss to No. 62 Viktor Loven. The loss was Ilowski's first to a ranked opponent this season.

Amanjot Singh bounced back from Friday's loss to Tulane's Michael Kogan with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 victory over UNO's Pierre Ros-Barbier. Singh improves to 8-6.

Junior Michael Tarkowski (9-7) extended his winning streak to three matches, easing past Julien De La Maitrie 6-0, 7-6.

In doubles, Ilowski and Ivan Kovalev won their fourth match in-a-row with an 8-2 victory over De La Maitrie and Saif Ali of UNO. Ilowski/Kovalev improve to 8-8, reaching the .500 plateau for the first time this season, while Marc Castellana and Tarkowski dip below the .500 mark (7-8) for the first time
this season. Castellana and Tarkowski lost 8-5 to Michael Chkroun and Loven.

Evghenii Corduneanu and Singh notched their 11th win of the season after an 8-5 victory over Anders Oding and Ros-Barbier.

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns men's tennis team returns to action Saturday when they travel to Houston to face Colorado in a 1:30 p.m. dual match held at Rice University. The match, originally scheduled for March 17th in Boulder, Colo., was postponed due to a snow storm.

MATCH RESULTS
#64 New Orleans 4, #63 Louisiana 3
SINGLES
#1 #77 Jakub Ilowski (UL) l. to #62 Viktor Loven (UNO) 1-6, 7-5, 6-2
#2 Ivan Kovalev (UL) l. to #95 Michael Chkroun (UNO) 6-2, 6-3
#3 Amanjot Singh (UL) def. Pierre Ros-Barbier (UNO) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
#4 Michael Tarkowski (UL) def. Julien De La Maitrie (UNO) 6-0, 7-6
#5 Marc Castellana (UL) l. to Saif Ali (UNO) 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
#6 Evghenii Corduneanu (UL) l. to Anders Oding (UNO) 2-6, 6-3, 6-1

DOUBLES
#1 Castellana/Tarkowski (UL) l. to Chkroun/Loven (UNO) 8-5
#2 Ilowski/Kovalev (UL) def. De La Maitrie/Ali (UNO) 8-2
#3 Corduneanu/Singh (UL) def. Oding/Ros-Barbier (UNO) 8-5


-Ragin' Cajuns-

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