Men's Tennis Opens Fall at OKC Intercollegiate

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Southeastern men's tennis opened its 2021 fall season with a pair of doubles runs and a solid start in singles play at the OKC Intercollegiate held in Oklahoma City, Okla.
 
"It was a tough tournament all around," said head coach Brian Nelson, "As we had strong teams such at Midwestern State, Newman, Ouachita Baptist, Cowley College, Seward CC, Pratt CC, and D1 Oral Roberts. The JUCO's have some really strong players, as we matched up against them in several draws. It's great to see those teams though and see how they match up with us to possibly recruit in the future. I feel we were on the same level though as Midwestern and Ouachita, usually two of our tougher D2 opponents during the Spring. The men are in good shape physically I feel as we had no injuries or withdraws due to heat or exhaustion like some other schools did."

SE had its best runs of the event in doubles play.
 
In flight two doublesDiego Orduz and Marcus Del Rosario opened play with a 6-3 win over Midwestern State's Matthew Abbey and Stefan Andrei.  That was followed by a 5-0 win over Mehdi Akoudad and Ooussama El Gallaf from Newman.
 
A win over the Seward Country duo would advance them to the flight two finals before their run would come to an end against the MSU pair of Brice Bradshaw and Corbin Ford.
 
The Storm found success in flight one as well as Marin Jurkovic and Manuel Pilotto opened play with a 6-2 win over the pair of Texas A&M-Texarkana before adding a win over No. 2 seeded pair of Santiago Kearney and Francisco Oliveira from Ouachita Baptist by a 7-5 score. The duo would then fall in the semifinal round of flight one.
 
Guillherme Dos Santos and Thabo Ncube would suffer a loss to open play in that same flight, but would advance to the consolation bracket finals.
 
Diego Orduz picked up a win in his first flight one matchup, downing Pratt CC's Dante Despontin 6-2, 6-3, but would fall in the second round to end his run.
 
In flight two, Marcus Del Rosario would also pick up a win over a Pratt CC player, this time Maxime Duyon by a 6-2, 6-1 score before falling in three sets in the second round.
 
Manuel Pilotto also advanced out of his first round match of flight two, topping Cowley's Harry Collins 6-4, 6-4 before also suffering a second round loss.
 
Filip Smid would get off to a winning start in flight three with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Felipe Delacarrera from Texas A&M-Texarkana, but he too would suffer a second round loss to end his run.
 
In flight four Marin Jurkovic opened play with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Midwestern State's Jean Muniz, but would get tripped up in three sets in a second-round loss.
 
Gen Naraya would join him with a first round victory in the flight, blanking Vinicious Costa from Pratt CC 6-0, 6-0, before suffering his own three-set loss.
 
SE's David Gonzales would tack on a 6-0, 6-2 win over TAMUT's Nittish Mohan in flight five, but would fall in the second round in three sets.
 
After flight five losses in the opening round, Kganya Ranamane and Vincious Outor would each navigate the consolation bracket to meet in the final before the two withdrew before squaring off.