Pirates Advance With Win Over UConn

Thursday, April 19

Dallas, Texas

10 a.m.

East Carolina University

Connecticut

April 19, 2018 | Men's Tennis

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RECAP
DALLAS – The No. 7 seed ECU advanced to the quarterfinals of The American Men's Tennis Championships with a 4-0 opening round victory over No. 10 seed UConn Thursday. The Pirates won three singles matches in straight sets after sweeping the doubles point to advance in the tournament for the third consecutive season.

RECORDS
ECU (22-4); UCONN (4-16)

NEWS & NOTES

The Pirates defeated UConn in the first round of The American Men's Tennis Championships for the third straight season. They defeated the Huskies 4-1 in 2016 and 2017 as the No. 8 seed.
Each of the Pirates' last two victories have been against UConn. ECU closed out the regular season with a 5-2 win over the Huskies at home Sunday and have won four straight dual matches.
ECU is 7-0 against the UConn since joining the American Athletic Conference in 2015.
Junior Vlad Anghel earned his 19^th singles win of the season and freshman Wisse Jonker improved to 18-2 in singles play since joining the team prior to the start of the 2018 spring semester.
Anghel and junior Freddie McGeehan each improved to 2-0 in the first round of The American Men's Tennis Championship. Anghel won his singles match in the opening round against UConn last season as did McGeehan the year prior.

COACH'S QUOTE
"Great work by our guys today. I thought we were a little tentative in the doubles, but once we got through that we played great in singles. We're looking forward to our next opportunity in the quarterfinals tomorrow." – ECU Head Coach Shawn Heinchon

RESULTS
ECU 4, UCONN 0

Singles

Vlad Anghel (ECU) d. Yill Zheng (UConn) 6-0, 6-3
Freddie McGeehan (ECU) d. Hank Hill (UConn) 6-4, 6-1
Ronny Georgi (ECU) vs. Justin Warren (UConn) 4-6, 1-4 unfinished
Kasey Countee (ECU) vs. Jack McLister (UConn) 7-6 (2) 3-1 unfinished
Wisse Jonker (ECU) d. John Michael Holton (UConn) 6-2, 6-0
Javier Renones (ECU) vs. Jonathan Edwards (UConn) 6-1, 5-3 unfinished

Doubles

Anghle/McGeehan (ECU) d. Warren/Holtman (UConn) 6-4
Countee/Georgi (ECU) d. Edwards/Zheng (UConn) 6-3
Jonker/Renones (ECU) vs. Hill McLister (UConn) 5-5 unfinished

UP NEXT
The Pirates will face No. 2 seed Tulane in the quarterfinals Friday at noon inside Turpin Stadium on the SMU campus. ECU last faced the Green Wave in the semifinals of the 2014 Conference USA tournament, falling 4-0.