Men's Tennis Completes First Weekend of 2017 Fall Season

Friday, September 22

Gainesville, Fla.

ALL DAY

Tulane University

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Photo by: Parker Waters

Men's Tennis Completes First Weekend of 2017 Fall Season

Sep 24, 2017 | Men's Tennis

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane men's tennis team concluded its first weekend of the 2017 fall season at the Alabama Invitational and the Florida Ranked +1 Tournament on Sunday afternoon.

FLORIDA RANKED +1
In Gainesville, sophomore Luis Erlenbusch cruised to a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Wake Forest's Bar Botzer in the back draw. He wraps his first weekend with a 2-1 singles mark.

Junior Tyler Schick ended his weekend on a high note, scoring his third victory over a ranked opponent in as many days. Despite dropping the first set, 6-4, to 67th-ranked Strahinja Rakic from Mississippi State, Schick punched back with a 6-3 victory in set No. 2, before finishing it off with a 6-2 win in the deciding frame. Schick now owns a 3-1 singles mark, including wins over the nation's No. 67, No. 88 and No. 90 players.

Ranked 77th, sophomore Ewan Moore ended his weekend on a high note by breezing past Kentucky's Jake Stefanik in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3 to end his first tournament of the fall with a 2-2 singles clip

In the championship match of his singles draw, senior and 13th-ranked Constantin Schmitz dropped a tough first set, 7-6, to Florida's 59th-ranked Johannes Ingildsen, but responded with a 7-5 victory in the second frame to force a third. Ingildsen earned a few breaks and closed out the final set, 6-2. Schmitz finishes the weekend 3-1 overall and 1-1 against ranked opponents.

Day 3 Singles
No. 59 Johannes Ingildsen (Florida) def. No. 13 Schmitz, 7-6, 5-7, 6-2
Erlenbusch def. Bar Botzer (Wake Forest), 6-3, 6-0
No. 77 Moore def. Jake Stefanik (Kentucky), 6-2, 6-3
Schick def. No. 67 Strahinja Rakic (Miss State), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2

ALABAMA INVITATIONAL
In Tuscaloosa, sophomore Chase Schupp opened up a 5-1 lead in the first set of his final singles match of the weekend, before Alabama's Grant Stuckey retired. With the victory, Schupp finishes his first fall tournament 2-2 in singles.

Playing in the championship of his draw, sophomore Tim Ruetzel got off to a hot start with a 6-4, first-set victory over Oklahoma's Ferran Calvo, but went down 6-3 in the second frame and 6-2 in the third in the three-set defeat. Ruetzel concludes his first fall tournament 3-1 in singles play.

Day 3 Singles
Ferran Calvo (Oklahoma) def. Ruetzel, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Schupp def. Grant Stuckey (Alabama), 5-1, ret.

UP NEXT
Tulane returns to the courts next Friday, Sept. 29 in Houston, Texas for the first day of the Rice Invitational, which runs through Sunday, Oct. 1. The ITA All-American Championships also begin with pre-qualifying action in in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, Sept. 30. The tournament will run through championship matches on Monday, Oct. 9.