Tech tennis eyes third straight win with Tuesday trip to Chattanooga

Tennessee Tech

Chattanooga

Doubles

SASAGAWA, Jun / HOLIS, Evzen (TTU)
def. Tomas Rodriguez / Peyton Gatti (UTC)

6-4

Turner Voges / Simon Labbe (UTC)
def. VICENTE, Carlos / BERGHAUS, Mika (TTU)

6-2

Kerim Hyatt / Jeffrey Dewald (UTC)
def. GRUBERT, Elias / TOSETTO, Rafael (TTU)

7-6

Singles

VICENTE, Carlos (TTU)
def. Tomas Rodriguez (UTC)

7-5, 4-6, 6-2

Turner Voges (UTC)
def. HOLIS, Evzen (TTU)

7-5, 6-4

Kerim Hyatt (UTC)
def. GRUBERT, Elias (TTU)

2-6, 7-5, 6-2

TOSETTO, Rafael (TTU)
def. Jeffrey Dewald (UTC)

6-0, 6-2

RODEIA, Andre (TTU)
def. Simon Labbe (UTC)

6-4, 6-4

SASAGAWA, Jun (TTU)
def. Peyton Gatti (UTC)

6-4, 2-6, 6-1

full stats

Posted: Mar 15, 2021

By Dylan Vazzano, TTU Sports Information

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech tennis team will put its two-match winning streak on the line Tuesday afternoon, as the Golden Eagles head to Chattanooga for an in-state showdown with the Mocs. First serve at the UTC Tennis Center is slated for 1:30 p.m. CT.

Live stats are available for the contest. Click here to view.

A look at Tennessee Tech

After starting the year with five straight matches against "Power 5" competition, the Golden Eagles (2-5) have checked the win column in each of the last two affairs behind a 4-3 victory at Kennesaw State on Mar. 7 and a 4-3 triumph over Radford in the club's home opener on Mar. 11.

Carlos Vicente and Elias Grubert each posted singles nods in the pair of affairs, with Vicente doing his damage out of the top spot in the lineup and Grubert soaring out of the No. 4 spot. Overall, Grubert leads the team with three singles wins, while Vicente, Evzen Holis and Andre Rodeia have each posted two victories in the season's early stages.

Grubert has also proven to be Tech's top doubles competitor this spring with a 3-0 mark, all out of the No. 3 slot. Rafael Tosetto has gone 3-2 in doubles action, while Holis and Jun Sasagawa each enter Tuesday's clash with 3-3 ledgers in tandem play.

A look at Chattanooga

After an 0-5 beginning to the spring, the Mocs (4-5) have caught fire with four consecutive wins since the calendar flipped to March. Chattanooga enters Tuesday's tangle with Tech on the heels of a 7-0 nod at The Citadel in Sunday's Southern Conference opener. Tomas Rodriguez, Turner Voges, Kerim Hyatt, Jeffrey Dewald, Simon Labbe and Peyton Gatti all carded singles wins for the Mocs.

Rodriguez has been the club's top singles competitor with a 6-3 ledger, all out of the No. 1 spot in the Moc's lineup. Voges possesses the second-best singles ledger on the team thanks to a 5-3 overall mark, highlighted by a 5-2 record out the No. 2 position.

Voges and Labbe have teamed up to post the most successful doubles tandem this spring, with the pair combining to go 5-3 overall, including a 5-2 mark out of the No. 2 spot.

The Mocs lead the all-time series, 34-25 over Tech, but the Golden Eagles have claimed three straight and five of the last six in the set. TTU took last year's meeting behind a 5-2 triumph in Cookeville on Mar. 1, 2020. The last get-together in the Scenic City also swung Tech's direction with a 4-3 win on Mar. 2, 2019.

Photo by Thomas Corhern