Stewart, Esses Claim Doubles Crown at SIC

Friday, September 27

Athens, Ga.

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Tulane University

SIC Championships

Sep 29, 2019 | Men's Tennis

ATHENS, Ga. - The Tulane men's tennis doubles tandem of Dane Esses and Hamish Stewart collected their third straight win and won the Black Compass draw at the 2019 Southern Intercollegiate Championships at the University of Georgia on Sunday.

Esses and Stewart defeated a combination of UCF's Mikhail Sokolovskiy and Georgia's Samuel Dromsky, 6-4, claiming the Green Wave's first doubles crown of the fall campaign.

The Green Wave also scored a pair of singles wins against ranked opponents in consolation play, as Esses defeated the 91st-ranked Boris Kozlov of LSU, 6-2, 6-3, for his first top-100 victory of the season. Stewart, ranked 110th nationally, defeated No. 112 Rrezart Cungu from Wake Forest, 6-2, 7-6(4) to finish the weekend with a 3-1 mark in singles.

Tulane returns to action with pre-qualifying singles matches at the 2019 ITA All-American Championships, which begin Saturday, October 5 at the University of Tulsa.

Singles competition
Day One
R16 #110 Hamish Stewart (Tulane) def. Mikhail Sokolovskiy (UCF) 7-6 (8-6), 4-1, retired
R16 #112 Rrezart Cungu (WF) def. #61 Luis Erlenbusch (Tulane) 6-4, 6-4
B16 Trent Bryde (UGA) def. Dane Esses (Tulane) 6-3, 6-2
B16 #82 J.P. Grassi Mazzuchi (UCF) def. #36 Ewan Moore (Tulane) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
Day Two
RQF #2 Christian Sigsgaard (TEXAS) def. #110 Hamish Stewart (Tulane) 6-4, 6-2
RCQ #61 Luis Erlenbusch (Tulane) def. #70 Lukas Greif (UF) 7-5, 7-5
BCQ #91 Boris Kozlov (LSU) def. #36 Ewan Moore (Tulane) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
RCS Malik Bhatnagar (LSU) def. #61 Luis Erlenbusch (Tulane) 6-2, 2-1, retired
RC #110 Hamish Stewart (Tulane) def. Andres Martin (GT) 6-2, 6-1
BCS Bogdan Pavel (UCF) def. Dane Esses (Tulane) 6-1, 6-4
BC #36 Ewan Moore (Tulane) def. #64 Johannes Ingildsen (UF) 6-4, 6-2
Day Three
RC #110 Hamish Stewart (Tulane) def. #112 Rrezart Cungu (WF) 6-2, 7-6(4)
BC3 Dane Esses (Tulane) def. #91 Boris Kozlov (LSU) 6-2, 6-3
BC #70 Lukas Greif (UF) def. #36 Ewan Moore (Tulane) 6-3, 6-4

Doubles competition
Day One
R16 #21 Andy Andrade/Duarte Vale (UF) def. Ewan Moore/Luis Erlenbusch (Tulane) 6-2
RCQ #41 Robert Loeb/Alex Diaz (UGA) def. Ewan Moore/Luis Erlenbusch (Tulane) 7-6 (7-4)
BQF Hamish Stewart/Dane Esses (Tulane) def. Britton Johnston/Alex Phillips (UGA) 6-4
Day Two
RC Ewan Moore/Luis Erlenbusch (Tulane) def. Alan Rubio/J.P. Grassi Mazzuchi (UCF) 6-3
BSF Dane Esses/Hamish Stewart (Tulane) def. Erik Grevelius/Mateo Reyes (UGA) 6-1
Day Three
BF Dane Esses/Hamish Stewart (Tulane) def. Mikhail Sokolovskiy/Samuel Dromsky (UCF/UGA) 6-4