MTN | Dons Drop Match Against Portland - University of San Francisco Athletics

Saturday, March 31

Portland, Ore.

11:00 a.m.

University of San Francisco

Portland

Mert Zincirli and Oliver Poysti USF men's tennis

Photo by: Christina Leung

MTN | Dons Drop Match Against Portland

3/31/2018 3:02:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The University of San Francisco men's tennis team faced Portland at the Louisiana Pacific Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon. The Dons dropped the match 0-4 and are now 6-12 in the season.

Doubles began with a 2-6 match from Paul Giraud and Marco Barretto, but Mert Zincirli and Oliver Poysti came back for the Dons, winning their match 6-3. The doubles point however went to the Pilots after Johan Joenhagen and Ryan Marker fell 4-6.

Zincirli started singles with a dropped match of 3-6, 2-6 and Joenhagen fell in his match 1-6, 5-7. Poysti begin with a 7-5 set win and brought his match into a tiebreaker set, but ultimately fell 2-6, 2-6 and the rest of singles went unfinished.

COACHES CORNER
"Portland did a good job staying focused and consistent in its competitive fight against my guys. We need to do better and will need to regroup for our next conference play. I know my guys are very upset with the weekend, but are ready to bounce back." — head coach Pablo Pires de Almeida.

Doubles (order of finish: 3,2,1)

Mathieu Garcia and Pierre Garcia def. Joenhagen and Marker; 6-4
Zincirli and Poysti def. Tom Hann and Michail Pervolarakis; 6-3
Carlos Donat and Jamie Fisher def. Giraud and Barretto; 6-2

Singles (order of finish: 2,1,3)

Pervolarakis def. Joenhagen; 6-1, 7-5
M. Garcia def. Zincirli; 6-3, 6-2
P. Garcia def. Poysti; 5-7, 6-2, 6-2
Marker vs. Donat; 2-4 (DNF)
Giraud vs. Alex Wallace; 3-4 (DNF)

UP NEXT
The Dons are at the Cal Club on Friday, Apr. 6 for a match against BYU. Match time is at 1 p.m. Follow the Dons on twitter @usfmenstennis.