Men's tennis team opens with win

Men's tennis team opens with win

The Eastern Florida State College men's tennis team opened the season with a sweep against Palm Beach Atlantic Tuesday at Titan Tennis Center on the Melbourne campus.

The Titans picked up the 9-0 victory for the first win of the spring season.

The No. 1 doubles team of Jack Dixon and Hugo Car had a tight match with the duo of Juanfer Contreras and Luis Platas, winning the tiebreaker 7-3 to win 7-6.

The team of Nick DeVivo and Colin Tavares won 6-3 at No. 2 doubles and Jett Leong and Tomas Quesada Perez teamed up to win 6-4 at No. 3 doubles.

Up 3-0, the singles matches began and all of them won in straight sets. Car picked up the 6-1, 6-3 victory against Platas at No. 1 singles with Dixon winning the No. 2 singles match 6-1, 6-4. DeVivo won the No. 3 match 6-1, 6-1 and Quesada Perez had a battle in the second set after winning the first 6-0. Tied 5-5, Quesada Perez would pull out the victory at No. 4 singles.

Leong won 6-3, 6-2 at No. 5 singles and Alex Achour won 6-4, 6-1 at No. 6 singles.