Doubles Duo Steps Up in USF’s Loss at No. 18 TCU
FORT WORTH, Texas (Feb. 9, 2018) – A big doubles win by
Sean Burnette and
Pierre Luquet highlighted USF's 6-1 loss at No. 18 TCU on Friday night.
Burnette and Luquet showed mental toughness, outlasting Reese Stalder and Bertus Kruger, 7-5, in the TCU doubles team's first loss of the season.
The Horned Frogs took courts three, one, and two in that order to clinch the match against the Bulls (2-5). The teams continued to finish the remaining matches on courts four, five and six.
On court one, No. 36-ranked Alex Rybakov defeated
Grayson Goldin, 7-6, 6-1. On court two, No. 80 Trevor Johnson clinch the match for the Horned Frogs with a 6-3, 7-6 win over No. 68
Alberto Barroso-Campos.
In doubles, TCU took the early point on court one as the No. 53-ranked pair of Rybakov and Guillermo Nuñez edged USF's Goldin and Barroso-Campos, 6-3.
Quotable:
Head Coach Ashley Fisher on the loss…
"We lost to a good TCU team tonight, but can take a lot of positives from this match. We fought back well all night and I was really happy with what I saw from Pierre and Sean. Our record doesn't show it, but we are moving in the right direction and I'm confident this group will come together and continue to grow as a team."
Up Next:
The Bulls will now travel a short distance to Waco, Texas, looking to bounce back against No. 12 Baylor on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Results:
Singles:
1. No. 36 Alex Rybakov (TCU) def.
Grayson Goldin (USF) 7-6, 6-1
2. No. 80 Trevor Johnson (TCU) def. No. 68
Alberto Barroso-Campos (USF) 6-3, 7-6
3. Guillermo Nuñez (TCU) def.
Jakub Wojcik (USF) 6-0, 6-0
4.
Pierre Luquet (USF) def. Reese Stalder (TCU) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6
5. Bertus Kruger (TCU) def.
Sean Burnette (USF) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6
6. Eduardo Roldan (TCU) def.
Jourdan Kast (USF) 7-6, 6-1
Doubles:
1. No.53 Rybakov / Nuñez (TCU) def. Goldin / Barroso-Campos (USF) 6-3
2. Burnette / Luquet (USF) def. Stalder / Kruger (TCU) 7-5
3. Johnson / Max Kurzban (TCU) def. Wojcik / Kast (USF) 6-4
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Head coach Ashley Fisher will begin his second year at the helm of the program for the 2018 season after leading the Bulls to a conference championship and the NCAA tournament in his first year as head coach during the 2017 season. The USF men's tennis program has won four consecutive American Athletic Conference Championships and advanced to four straight NCAA tournaments.
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