INDIANAPOLIS – The IUPUI men’s tennis team fell to Toledo on Sunday night, 5-0. The partnership of Noah Viste and Will Thurin recorded a doubles win in the loss.
The Jags opened up the match with doubles play. The Rockets took two out of the three matches to earn the doubles point. Viste and Thurin kept the Jags in contention for the doubles point with a win at number two doubles, 6-4. Blessing Benibo and Kamil Kozerski fell at number one doubles, 6-2 and Steven Paz and Luka Rodic fell in the number three spot, 6-4.
After falling in doubles play, the Jags lost in four out of the six singles matches. Paz fell at number two singles, 6-0, 6-4 while Viste lost at number three singles, 6-3, 6-2. Rodic lost in the number four spot, 6-3, 6-0 and Benibo fell in the number five singles match, 6-4. 6-2.
Kozerski’s was down a set when his number one singles match went unfinished, 6-3, 3-4. Eli Mercer rounded out the lineup in the number six spot where he was down one set when the match went unfinished, 6-4, 2-2.
The Jags are now 1-3 on the season and next travel to Eastern Illinois on Sunday, January 28.