TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Vanderbilt men’s tennis closed its 2020 fall campaign this weekend by taking on Alabama and LSU at Alabama Tennis Stadium. Throughout the competition, the Commodores earned eight victories across singles and doubles.
Max Freeman and Macsen Sisam led the way for Vanderbilt, earning three wins apiece across singles and doubles action. Two of Freeman’s victories came in doubles play with George Harwell, beating LSU’s Ronald Hohmann and Rafael Wagner 6-2 on Friday and Alabama’s Patrick Kaukovalta and Riccardo Roberto 7-6 (3) on Saturday. His singles victory came Friday when he beat Wagner 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.
Sisam was Vanderbilt’s top singles player on the weekend, winning two of his three matches. On Friday, Sisam defeated LSU’s Malik Bhatnagar 6-4, 6-4 before going on to take down the Tigers’ Tom Pisane 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday. He also partnered with Marcus Ferreira on Saturday to beat LSU’s Boris Kozlov and Nick Watson 6-1.
Ferreira and Adam Sraberg also earned a singles win over the weekend. Ferreira joined Sisam in beating Bhatnager Saturday by the score of 6-0, 6-2 while Sraberg closed the tournament with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Alabama’s Avi Shugar.
With the fall season in the books, Vanderbilt will now look toward the 2021 spring season. More information about the Commodores’ spring season will be available at a later date.
Results
Friday
Doubles
Max Freeman/George Harwell (Vanderbilt) def. Ronald Hohmann/Rafael Wagner (LSU) 6-2
Gabriel Diaz Freire/Zhe Zhou (Alabama) def. Marcus Ferreira/Adam Sraberg (Vanderbilt) 6-3
Vincent Rettke/Marcelo Sepulveda Garza (Alabama) def. Connor Robb- Wilcox /Macsen Sisam (Vanderbilt) 7-6(4)
Singles
Patrick Kaukovalta (Alabama) def. George Harwell (Vanderbilt) 6-2, 6-3
Riccardo Roberto (Alabama) def. Marcus Ferreira (Vanderbilt) 4-6, 6-2, 7-5
Jeremy Gschwendtner (Alabama) def. Connor Robb- Wilcox (Vanderbilt) 7-6(4), 6-1
Marcelo Sepulveda Garza (Alabama) def. Adam Sraberg (Vanderbilt) 6-1, 6-3
Max Freeman (Vanderbilt) def. Rafael Wagner (LSU) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
Boris Kozlov (LSU) def. James Ignatowich (Vanderbilt) 6-4, 6-3
Macsen Sisam (Vanderbilt) def. Malik Bhatnagar (LSU) 6-4, 6-4
Saturday
Doubles
Max Freeman/George Harwell (Vanderbilt) def. Patrick Kaukovalta/Riccardo Roberto (Alabama) 7-6(3)
Jeremy Gschwendtner/Avi Shugar (Alabama) def James Ignatowich/Adam Sraberg (Vanderbilt) 6-4
Marcus Ferreira /Macsen Sisam (Vanderbilt) def. Boris Kozlov/Nick Watson (LSU) 6-1
Singles
Zhe Zhou (Alabama) def. Max Freeman (Vanderbilt) 6-1, 6-0
Vincent Rettke (Alabama) def. Macsen Sisam (Vanderbilt) 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-1
Gabriel Diaz Freire (Alabama) def. James Ignatowich (Vanderbilt) 7-5, 4-6, 6-4
Rafael Wagner (LSU) def. George Harwell (Vanderbilt) 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-4
Alexey Nesterov (Alabama) def. Adam Sraberg (Vanderbilt) 6-3, 6-3
Marcus Ferreira (Vanderbilt) def. Malik Bhatnagar (LSU) 6-0, 6-2
Ben Koch (LSU) def. Connor Robb-Wilcox (Vanderbilt) 6-3, 7-6(4)
Sunday
Doubles
Gabriel Diaz Freire/Zhe Zhou (Alabama) def. Max Freeman/George Harwell (Vanderbilt) 6-2
Sam Fischer/Alexey Nesterov (Alabama) def. Marcus Ferreira /Macsen Sisam (Vanderbilt) 7-5
Malik Bhatnagar/Ben Koch (LSU) def. Connor Robb-Wilcox /Adam Sraberg (Vanderbilt) 6-2
Singles
Patrick Kaukovalta (Alabama) def. Max Freeman (Vanderbilt) 6-1, 6-1
Vincent Rettke (Alabama) def. Marcus Ferreira (Vanderbilt) 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
Jeremy Gschwendtner (Alabama) def. James Ignatowich (Vanderbilt) 6-0, 5-7, 6-0
Ronald Hohmann (LSU) def. George Harwell (Vanderbilt) 6-1, 2-6, 6-2
Macsen Sisam (Vanderbilt) def. Tom Pisane (LSU) 6-2, 6-3
Marcelo Sepulveda Garza (Alabama) def. Connor Robb-Wilcox (Vanderbilt) 6-0, 6-2
Adam Sraberg (Vanderbilt) def. Avi Shugar (Alabama) 6-3, 6-3
