2017-18 Shocker Men's Tennis

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The Shocker men defeated Grand Canyon 4-2 today in Albuquerque to win the Mountain Pacific Tournament hosted by New Mexico.

After a tough start the Shocks have now won 5 matches in a row to improve to 6-5 on the year.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/3/4/mens-tennis-wsu-wins-pacific-invite-drops-gcu-4-2.aspx

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The Shocker men defeated San Francisco 4-0 this morning in Albuquerque at the Mountain Pacific Tournament hosted by #46 New Mexico.

The Shockers take on New Mexico this afternoon. The Shockers will play either Brown or Grand Canyon tomorrow either in the Championship match or the 3rd place match.

The Shockers picked up their 2nd win of the day and their best win of the season with a 4-1 win over #46 New Mexico.

The Shockers will be in the tournament Championship match tomorrow against the winner of the Brown vs GCU match.

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Here is Murkel's match-clinching service ace to finish off the Tulsa match. You may want to watch the video in full screen mode. Murkel's racket is out of the frame when he makes contact to you have to pick the ball up in mid-flight and it had some mustard on it.

https://twitter.com/GoShockersMTEN/s...06836515176449

I don't think the Tulsa player had a prayer to return that thing.

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The Shocks picked up a Havoc in the Heartland win as they edged Tulsa 4-3 in Tulsa on Monday evening in a very tight match.

The Shocks needed a tiebreaker to win the doubles point which proved to be key. After the teams split the No. 1 and 2 doubles Shocker co-captains Eddie Stoica and Haru Inoue were tied at 6-6 after 12 games and were at 6-6 in the tiebreaker to determine the winner of the No. 3 doubles when they won the next two points for 7-6 (8-6) win and the doubles point.

Tulsa won the #1 singles easily 6-1, 6-1 but WSU's Andrea Caligiana took the #6 singles in straight sets at 7-5, 6-4 and Eddie Stoica won the #5 singles 6-3, 6-4 to put the Shocks up 3-1.

However, Tulsa fought back winning the #2 singles in a 3rd set tiebreaker 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2) and the the #4 singles in 3 sets 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 to tie the match at 3 all.

WSU's Murkel Dellien was the last to finish in the #3 singles a pulled out a 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3 three set battle to secure the win.

In matches involving AAC teams Tulsa has a 5-2 win over USF and a 2-5 loss to #20 Tulane both in Tulsa. Tulsa was WSU's first AAC match and they also play SMU on April 6th in Dallas.

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Shocks step down a bit in weight-class and pick up a 7-0 win over UMKC at Geneisis Health Cluc on Sunday and move to 2-5 on the season.

Shocks won the doubles point pretty handily but most of the singles matches were pretty competitive.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/2/18/mens-tennis-shockers-take-care-of-roos-in-7-0-sweep.aspx

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Ouch.

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The Shocker men fall to 1-5 on the season with a 2-5 loss to Middle Tennessee State today at Genesis Health Club.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/2/17/mens-tennis-shockers-fall-to-middle-tennessee-5-2.aspx

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Shocks continue to play close but no cigar tennis as the fall at Arkansas 3-4 after winning the doubles point and fall to 1-4 on the season..

The match game down to #4 singles but Miroslav Herzan fell to his Arkansas opponent in 3 sets 6-2, 5-7, 4-6.

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Shocks fall to 1-3 on the year with a 4-3 loss to Auburn at the Harvard Invite.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/1/28/mens-tennis-shockers-fall-to-tigers-at-harvard.aspx

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The Shocker men fell to Utah today 5-2 at the Shocker invite.

The Shockers will play Auburn, a 5-2 loser to Harvard, tomorrow at Noon CT.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/1/27/mens-tennis-shockers-fall-to-utah-at-crimson-invite.aspx

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Who was Paul Smith you say? Sully has the answer in another nice report on another 2018 Shocker Hall of Fame inductee.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/1/21/athletics-fast-choice-right-choice-for-smith.aspx

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Here is a look at today's match with Cornell from Cornell's web site.

http://cornellbigred.com/news/2018/1...ual-debut.aspx

Stoica/Inoue win the #3 doubles 6-4 but Delien/Froza and Herson/Caligiana lose at #1 and #2 doubles by identical 4-6 scores and Cornell goes up 1-0.

Shocks will now have to win 4 of 6 singles matches to win the the match.

So far Shocks have been competitive but not sucessful. They are down 0-1 in all 6 single matches losing 3 of those 6 sets in tiebreakers and 2 by 4-6 scores. There back could not be more up agaisnt the wall.

Shocker Eddie Stoica fell in #4 singles 4-6, 1-6 and Shocker Andrea Trapani fell in #5 singles 3-6, 1-6. Cornell clinches with 1 more win.

Murket Dellien falls in #3 signles 4-6, 6-4, 1-6 and Cornell clinches the match.

Miroslav Herzan wins in #6 singles using a super tiebreaker 6-7, 7-6, (10-4) to avoid a sweep.

Marius Frosa falls in #2 singles 6-7, 5-7.

Cornell gets the seep as Haru Inoue falls to the 95th ranked player in a super tiebreaker 6-7, 6-4 (8-10).

Shocks fall 6-1 in a match much closer than the final score indicates.

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The Shocker Men open their season with a competitive 5-2 win over the University of Buffalo in Ithaca, NY today.

http://goshockers.com/news/2018/1/24...on-opener.aspx

Shocks face Cornell tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 pm. The Shocks will then drop down to the Boston area this Saturday and Sunday at the Harvard Inivte although I am not sure who they will be playing. Looks like a 4-team event with Harvard, Wichita State, Auburn and Utah.

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http://goshockers.com/news/2018/1/15/mens-tennis-signs-andrea-trapani.aspx

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