Tide's Chris Gostek Defeats Ranked Opponent
9/28/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
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Alabama Men’s Tennis completed their first day of competition at the Harvard Invitational with Chris Gostek’s wire-to-wire victory over Notre Dame’s
Matt Scott on Friday.
Competing teams included Alabama, Notre Dame, Brown, Princeton, Rutgers, UNLV and host Harvard. Play was moved indoors due to inclement weather.
The tournament uses a 'hidden dual' format which gives teams a chance to experiment with their singles lineups and doubles combinations early in the season. Teams compete head-to- head, but only individual singles and doubles results are recorded and count toward ITA National and Regional rankings. (There are no team head-to-head scores or team 'winners' declared.)
Singles matches are two regular scoring sets with a 10-point match
tiebreaker determining the winner in cases of split sets. Doubles matches
are one 8 game pro-set with a tiebreaker at 8-all. In NCAA Division I
tennis, service lets are in play.
The Tide’s Max Belski traveled to Kentucky with assistant coach Mario
Rincon for the 2002 Charles Fluitt Invitational at the Hilary J. Boone Varsity Tennis Complex Lexington. He fell to No. 19 Alex Hartman of Ole Miss (4-6, 5-7), and No. 9 Bobby Reynolds from Vanderbilt (3-6, 2-6).
Alabama’s Singles Results- Day One
Stephen Mitchell def. Luis Haddock (Notre Dame) 6-4, 6-4.
Chris Gostek def. Matt Scott (Notre Dame) 6-3, 6-7, 1-0 (10)
Geoff Hiscox def. Patrick Buchanan (Notre Dame) 7-6, 6-4.
Christian Broderson def. Sergey Leonyok (Notre Dame) 6-4, 6-3.
Nicholas Lopez (Notre Dame) def. Michael Ray Pallares 6-4, 6-2.
Eric Langenkamp (Notre Dame) def. William Boyles 7-5, 7-6(4)
Paul McNaughtin (Notre Dame) def. Bradley Friedman 6-4, 6-0.
Peter Graham (Notre Dame) def. Tim Givan 6-2, 6-2.
Ben Hatten (Notre Dame) def. Matt Drummond 6-4, 7-6.
Alabama’s Doubles Results- Day One
Mitchell/Hiscox def Vissers/ Schweitzer (Rutgers) 8-3.
Gostek/Boyles def. Bielen/Deming (Rutgers) 8-3
Briedman/Pallares def. Deming/Milchutsky (Rutgers) 8-5.
Broderson/Isern def. Salomon/Blagojevic (UNLV) 8-2.
Riddell/J. Chu (Harvard) def. Mitchell/Hiscox 8-5.
Gostek/Boyles def. Nguyen/Bohnen (Harvard) 8-2.
Freidman/Isern def. Gardner/B. Chiu (Harvard) 8-6.
Broderson/Pallares def. Randera-Roos/Duarte (Harvard), 8-5.
