Owls Slip Past Green Wave, 4-3

Sunday, March 22

NEW ORLEANS

1:00 PM

Tulane University

#60 Rice

Andres Delgadillo

Mar 22, 2026 | Men's Tennis

NEW ORLEANS – The Rice men's tennis team, ranked No. 60 nationally, secured the doubles point and defeated Tulane 4-3 Sunday afternoon at Goldring Tennis Center.

The Owls improved to 9-6 on the season, while Tulane fell to 6-7.

Piotr Andrzejewski (6-3, 2-6, 6-1) earned Tulane's first point of the match with a singles win at the No. 4 position. Soon after, Daniel Phillips (3-6, 6-1, 6-3) defeated No. 49 Petro Kuzmenok at No. 1 singles.

Tulane returns to action next weekend, traveling to #59 Memphis on Friday, March 27, before heading to #43 Middle Tennessee on Sunday, March 29 at 12 p.m.

Doubles
1 – #79 Petro Kuzmenok/Santiago Navarro (RICEM) def. Daniel Phillips/Lance Nisbet (TULM) 7-5
2 – Alec Gaudin/Piotr Andrzejewski (TULM) vs. Yair Sarouk/Kabeer Kapasi (RICEM) 6-6 (unfinished)
3 – Tommy Czaplinski/Rafael Botran (RICEM) def. Asaf Friedler/AJ Mercer (TULM) 6-1

Singles
1 – Daniel Phillips (TULM) def. #49 Petro Kuzmenok (RICEM) 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
2 - Santiago Navarro (RICEM) def. Asaf Friedler (TULM) 6-2, 6-1
3 - Rafael Botran (RICEM) def. Alec Gaudin (TULM) 6-2, 6-4
4 - Piotr Andrzejewski (TULM) def. Kabeer Kapasi (RICEM) 6-3, 2-6, 6-1
5 – Andres Delgadillo (TULM) def. Tommy Czaplinski (RICEM) 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 7-5
6 – Gabriel Porras (RICEM) def. Steven Rice (TULM) 6-2, 2-6, 6-1

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