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Penn Invitational
Gophers Conclude Penn Invitational
9/28/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Results
PHILADELPHIA - The Minnesota men's tennis team went 2-3 in singles and 0-2 in doubles on the final day of play at the Penn Invitational Sunday. The Gophers come away from their season-opening tournament 12-8 in singles and 1-5 in doubles.
Minnesota's pair of freshmen each picked up wins in singles and the duo combined for a 7-1 record on the weekend.
For the second-straight day, Felix Corwin won in three sets. Sunday, he downed St. John's R.J. Del Nunzio, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2 to improve to 4-0 in his first season in the Maroon and Gold. Matic Spec won in singles for the third day in a row and upped his record to 3-1 with a straight-set defeat of the Red Storm's Robert Livi.
SJU opponents defeated the Gophers' Eric Frueh, Tucker Saxon, and Jeremy Lynn. Seniors Frueh and Saxon are now 2-2 in singles, while Lynn is 1-3.
The Red Storm's tandems of Michael-John Every and Elio Livi and Freddy and Ruiz Acevedo and Vaidik Munshaw beat Minnesota's Frueh and Spec and Corwin and Saxon, respectively. Frueh and Spec fell to 1-1 and Saxon and Corwin dropped to 0-2.
The Gophers will resume fall play next week as seniors Leandro Toledo, Jack Hamburg, and Mathieu Froment will take part in the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla. Froment and Hamburg will begin qualifying play Monday.
SINGLES
Felix Corwin (MINN) def. R.J. Del Nunzio (STJ) 6-0, 3-6, 6-2
Matic Spec (MINN) def. Robert Livi (STJ) 6-3, 6-3
Elio Livi (STJ) def. Eric Frueh (MINN) 7-6 (5), 6-2
Freddy Ruiz Acevedo (STJ) def. Tucker Saxon (MINN) 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
Michael-John Every (STJ) def. Jeremy Lynn (MINN) 6-1, 7-5
DOUBLES
Michael-John Every/Elio Livi (STJ) def. Eric Frueh/Matic Spec (MINN) 6-2
Freddy Ruiz Acevedo/Vaidik Munshaw (STJ) def. Felix Corwin/Tucker Saxon (MINN) 6-4
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