2018-19 Shocker Men's Tennis

[1972Shocker]

The Shocker men, freshly ranked at #44 after their road win at #28 Dartmouth, returned home for match with former MVC nemisis and #43 ranked Drake and came away with a closely contested 4-2 win.

The Shocks won the doubles point and then split the #1 and #2 singles where Drake had the #72 and #64 nationally ranked single players. Murkel Delien fell at the #1 singles to #72 Vinny Gillespie in 3 sets but diminutive Shocker senior Haru Inoue upset #64 Tom Hands in 3 sets. 6-6 Shocker freshman Stefan Latinovic to the #5 singles and Shocker freshman Orel Ovil took the #6 singles to seal the deal for the Shocks as they even there records at 6-6 on the season.

https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/1/mens-tennis-wsu-handles-no-43-drake-4-2.aspx

[RoyalShock]

The #39 Shocks beat #50 Memphis 4-3 in a tie break. The match-clinching point:

[WstateU]

Didn't know they celebrated like this in Tennis... lol.

[1972Shocker]

Being a team sport in college makes all the difference.

[1972Shocker]

The Shocks were down 3-1 after the doubles point went to Memphis and Memphis won the #1 and #6 singles with the Shocks lone point coming in the #5 singles. The Shocks had to sweep the #2, 3 and 4 singles to win the match. Eddie Stoica came through in the #4 singles with a 7-6, 6-2 win to make it 3-2 and then Murkel Delien pulled out a 7-6, 6-7, 6-1 win at #2 to tie the match at 3-all. After splitting the 1st two sets in the #3 singles 5-7, 6-2 Marius Frosa fell behind 1-3 in the 3rd set before rallying to tie the set at 6 to force a tiebreaker that Marius won 7-4 to complete the Shocker comeback.

https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/1...0-memphis.aspx

[1972Shocker]

The Shocker men headed north to Lincoln today and came away with a hard fought 4-3 win over the Huskers coming back to win 4 of 6 singles matches after dropping the doubles point.

The key match was probably the #5 singles which was the last match completed where 6-6 Shocker freshman, Stefan Latinovic, prevailed in 3 sets by scores of 4-6, 6-3 and 7-5.

More stormin' the court by the team I suspect.

https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/15/mens-tennis-shockers-take-down-nebraska-4-3-in-lincoln.aspx

[1972Shocker]

The Shockers double dipped on Sunday with an 11:30 am match vs Charlotte held at Collegiate High School and then headed over to Genisis Health Club to take on UMKC at 4:30 am.

Against Charlotte the Shocks dropped the doubles point and then came back to take 4 of the 6 singles matches to pull out a 4-3 win. This is the 3rd consecutive match shwere that has happened which has to be somewhat unusual.

After dropping the doubles point Shocker freshman Orel Orvil got the Shocks on the board with a 6-3, 6-1 win at #6 singles to tie it up at 1-1.

Fellow Shocker freshman Stefan Latinovic picked up a 6-4, 6-4 win at #5 singles to give the Shocks a 2-1 lead.

Charlotte tied it back up at 2-2 with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over Marius Frosa in the #3 singles.

Shocker senior Haru Inoue made it 3-2 Shocks with a tough 7-5, 6-4 win at #1 singles.

Shocker junior Murkel Delien clinched the match with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 win at #2 singles giving the Shocks a 4-2 lead.

Shocker senior Eddie Stoica dropped a tight 3 set match by scores of 4-6, 6-4, 5-7 for the final score of 4-3.

Apparently, the Shocks had enough of the skin of the teeth stuff as the took the doubles point from UMKC in the afternoon match and then closed out the match with straight set wins at #4 (Eddie Stoica) #5 (Stefan Latinovic) and #6 (Orel Ovil) singles with the remaining 3 singles matches close but unfinished.

https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/17/mens-tennis-shockers-collect-wins-over-charlotte-umkc.aspx

[1972Shocker]

Last weekend the Shocks head to the San Diego Invite where the played #50 Princeton, fellow AAC member Memphis and former Valley rival Drake.

The Shocks fell to #50 Princeton 1-4: https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/2...princeton.aspx

The Shocks, who had beaten Memphis in Wichita 4-3 earlier in the season lost a rematch to the Tigers 2-4.

https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/23/mens-tennis-shockers-fall-to-memphis-at-san-diego-classic.aspx

The Shocks did salvage a 4-1 win over Drake in their final match in San Diego: https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/2...ver-drake.aspx

The Shocks wrap up their home schedule with a match against Creighton on Friday and UTSA on Saturday. After the conclusion of Saturday's match the Shocks will honor 4 seniors.

https://goshockers.com/news/2019/3/28/mens-tennis-shockers-wrap-up-home-play-with-creighton-utsa.aspx

[1972Shocker]

Shockers Roll Past Creighton, 6-1

The Shocks took the doubles point to take a 1-0 lead. Creighton struck first in singles play with a win at #5 singles to tie it at 1-1 but the Shocks then ran off victories in the remaining 5 singles matches.

Always good to pick up a win in anything over Creighton.

[1972Shocker]

Shockers Sweep UTSA on Senior Day

[ABC]

Thank you 1972Shocker, for the updates. What is WSU now ranked? When is the conference tourney?

[1972Shocker]

The Shocks as of March 24th are ranked #50. UCF is ranked #33, USF #39, Tulane #43, and Tulsa #45. 10 of the 12 AAC members sponsor men's tennis. Cincinnati and Houston are the 2 schools that do not have men's tennis.

https://www.r2sports.com/system/rankings/ITArankings.asp?sportOrganizationID=792&rankingTyp eID=39&conferenceID=4&rankingsRunID=599

The Shocks have road matches remaining at SMU next Sunday and at UTSA next Monday.

The AAC Championships are on April 18 - April 21 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando. UCF has to be the favorite.

[1972Shocker]

The Shocks traveled to SMU on Sunday and came away with a 4-0 win in a pretty tightly contested match.

The Shocks took the doubles point and then won the #6 and #3 singles in straight sets. The other 4 matches went to 3 sets with Sr. Eddie Stoica clinching the match with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 win at #4 singles. The #1, #2 and #5 singles all went unfinished but all 3 matches could have gone either.

The Shocks close out he regular season today at Texas-Arlington

https://goshockers.com/news/2019/4/7...in-dallas.aspx

[1972Shocker]

The Shocks finish off their regular season at 15-9 with a 4-1 win over Texas-Arlington for their 5th straight win.

The Shocks won the #1 and #3 doubles to take the doubles point.

The Shocks went up 2-0 with a win at #5 singles but UTA pulled to 2-1 with a win at #3 singles. Wins at #6 singles and #1 singles clinched the match for the Shocks.

The Shockers take a short break before taking on the American Athletic Conference tournament in Orlando, Fla. on April 18-21. I'm guessing the Shocks will be the 5th seed in the AAC Championships out of the 10 men's programs. I believe the bottom 4 seeds play in round one with the two winners joining the top 6 seeds in the quarterfinals.

[1972Shocker]

WSU Earns Five Seed in American Championship

The Shocker Men are the 5th seed in the 2019 AAC Men's Tennis Championship. This is the same seed as the Shocker women except all 12 AAC members have women's tennis. There are 10 AAC teams who sponsor men's tennis. Looks like Cincinnati and Houston don't field men's tennis teams.

The bracket is similar to what you would see for the Valley Basketball Tournament with the bottom 4 seeds (7-Temple vs 10-UConn and 8-ECU vs 9-SMU) pairing off in a play-in round on Thursday.

The Shocks will play 4th seeded Tulsa at Noon EDT/11:00 CDT on Friday with the winner likely to get #1 seed UCF on Saturday.

The Shocks and Tulsa did not play in the regular season this year.

Tournament Bracket

[1972Shocker]

The Shocks win what could be an all-important doubles point against Tulsa in a very competitive round of matches. The Shocks won the #1 singles 6-3, lost the #2 doubles 5-7 and won the #3 doubles 7-5.

The Shocks now need to win 3 of the 6 singles matches. The are about mid-way through the 1st sets with Tulsa leading comfortably in 3 sets and with 3 sets being pretty much even.

[RoyalShock]

Looks like they just cleared the courts. Rain?

Here are the live stats with links to video, though not all the video links go to the right court.

http://scores.tennisticker.de/usa/us...ci2=678&lid=70

[1972Shocker]

Looks like they have moved indoors.