Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Phoenix, AZ – Men's tennis concludes their visit to Glendale, AZ with a double header split. Final score 6-1, 1-4.

The Men's Tennis team started their morning against Ottawa University Arizona, concluding the game with a 6-1 win.

The match started with the Mustangs teaming up for doubles. The first match saw Mael Houee (Rennes, France/Lycee Saint Martin (France)) and Jack Sempar teaming up to take the match 6-3, being the first duo to conclude the match. David Guta (Bucharest, Romania/Liceul Teoretic C.A. Rosetti (Romania)) and Benjami Vriends took the court second and finished the match second, taking the win for 6-3. The duo Christopher Lund-Kuhl (Vaerloese, Denmark/Kruses Gymnasium) Djamel-Dine Bey (Paris, France/National Centre for Distance Education (Online)) took the court third, finishing the match third, also securing victory with 6-4. The Mustangs concluded the doubles with a full point.

In the singles lineup, Lund-Kuhl finished the match first, taking the victory with a 6-0, 6-2. Bey completed a sounding victory 6-2, 6-2. Vriends took the third win with a 6-0, 6-2. Guta finished the match fourth, securing his victory with a tie breaker round and score of 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Houee was fifth to finish with a defining score of 6-3, 6-4. The final conclusion came from Semper, who after a hard-fought battle that went into the tier breaker fell 5-7, 7-5, 8-10.

This concluded the morning with the Mustangs winning with a defining 6-1.

The afternoon of the match saw disappointment as the match concluded with the Mustangs dropping the match 4-1.

The afternoon started with the Mustangs teaming up again for doubles, with Houee and Semper finishing first, where they fell 6-1. The second duo to conclude their match up was Guta and Vriends where their match dropped by 3-6. The final duo to take the court was Lund-Kuhl and Bey, who after a hard-fought battle fell 4-6.

The singles started with Houee taking the court, but after a hard-fought battle fell 1-6, 3-6. The second to take the court was Semper but the match was left unfinished with a score of 6-4, 5-6. Yannik Rogulski (Madunice, Slovakia/Archbishop's High School of Bishop P. Jantausch) was third on the court and after two consecutive hard-fought battles fell 5-7, 4-6. Vriends entered the court fourth but concluded the match with a loss of 3-6, 3-6. Lund-Kuhl was the fifth Mustang to enter the court, and concluded the match up with a 6-4, 6-4 victory. The last Mustang to take the field was Bey, but the match was left unfinished.

The afternoon concluded with the Mustangs falling with a final score of 1-4, and a double header split of 6-1, 1-4.

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