March 4, 2005

Queens, NY - The St. John's University men's tennis team continued their spring trip down south, as they dropped a pair of matches this week. On Tuesday, the Red Storm lost at Louisiana-Lafayette, 6-1 and came back to lose at Alabama-Birmingham, 5-2 on Wednesday.

At UL-Lafayette, the Red Storm picked up with lone point at No. 2 singles, where junior David Nylen (Orebro, Sweden) won in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles
#1 - Corduneanu/Tabak (UL) d. Dizazzo/Nylen (SJU) 8-5
#2 - Abaker/Singh (UL) d. Bauer/Desmarteaux (SJU) 8-5
#3 - Ellison/Ley (UL) d. Goldberg/Stocker (SJU) 8-0

Singles
#1 - Corduneanu (UL) d. Louis Desmarteaux (SJU) 6-3, 6-4
#2 - David Nylen (SJU) d. Singh (UL) 6-3, 6-3
#3 - Tabak (UL) d. Aurelio Dizazzo (SJU) 6-2, 6-1
#4 - Ellison (UL) d. Nick Stocker (SJU) 6-2, 4-0 ret.
#5 - Ley (UL) d. Morgan Bauer (SJU) 6-3, 6-3
#6 - Abaker (UL) d. Cladio Halim (SJU) 6-1, 6-1

On Wednesday, the Red Storm dropped the doubles point and were only able to pull out two singles matches as they fell 5-2. Picking up singles points for St. John's were sophomore Louis Desmarteaux (Thornhill, Ontario) at No. 1 singles, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 over Sebastian Falk and at No. 6, Claudio Halim (Jakarta, Indonesia), who knocked off Johannes Spangenberg, 6-2, 7-6.

Doubles
#1 - Kanczula-Maier (UAB) d. Nylen-Di Zazzo (SJU) 8-4
#2 - Falk-Werkmann (UAB) vs. Desmarteaux-Halim (SJU) DNF
#3 - Mitrovski-Spangenberg (UAB) d. Todd Goldberg-Stocker (SJU) 8-5

Singles
#1 - Louis Desmarteaux (SJU) d. Sebastian Falk (UAB) 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
#2 - Thomas Werkmann (UAB) d. David Nylen (SJU), 3-6, 6-0, 6-1
#3 - Kristijan Mitrovski (UAB) d. Aurelio Di Zazzo (SJU) 7-6, 6-4
#4 - Andre Maier (UAB) d. Morgan Bauer (SJU) 6-3, 6-7,. 6-0
#5 - Filip Kanczula (UAB) d. Nick Stocker (SJU) 6-0, 6-0
#6 - Claudio Halim (SJU) d. Johannes Spangenberg (UAB) 6-2, 7-6

St. John's returns to the courts on Saturday, March 5, when they travel to Hattesburg, MS to take on Southern Miss at noon and Samford at 3 pm.