Orlando, Florida – The Fordham men’s tennis team entered the 2021 Atlantic 10 men’s tennis championship as the sixth seed in a semi-finals. The Rams fought hard against third-placed Richmond and suffered a 2-4 defeat on the USTA National Campus.
“We lost a heartbreaker to the University of Richmond today,” said head coach Michael Sowter. “We won in doubles no. 2 and had five match points in doubles no. 1, but finally lost 12-10 in the breaker, only to lose 1-0 after the double. Won 5 and Tom Russwurm had a match. ” Point in the sixth individual, but lost 7: 5 in the third. We lost 4: 2, but were two points away from the game. Tough day but I’m really proud of the way the team fought. “
In doubles, the Rams lost in third doubles, but Max Green and Alex Makatsaria leveled the game with a 6-2 win over Richmonds John Walsh and Campbell Erwin. So the colon went back to the first double where Fabian Mauritzson and Lutwin de Macar battled Josh Keitelman and Daniel Kliebhan for a tiebreaker before falling 12-10 in the tiebreaker.
The Spiders took the lead with a 2-0 lead with a second individual win before de Macar put the Rams on the board with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Erwin in fifth place.
After Richmond rose 3-1, Mauritzson got one back for Fordham with a 7: 6 (5), 6: 3 and a win in the first single games against Matthew Fernandez. However, the Spiders took the win when Keitelman defeated Russwurm in the sixth individual. Russwurm dropped the first set 6-4 but came back and won the second 6-1. Russwurm fought in the third set before falling 7-5.