Men's Tennis Cruises Past Bucknell; Rhazali Breaks Record for Most Victories in Program History

Sunday, March 4

Hecht/Hamlin Center

5 p.m.

Drexel University

Bucknell

Photo by: Greg Carroccio

Men's Tennis Cruises Past Bucknell; Rhazali Breaks Record for Most Victories in Program History

3/4/2018 7:57:00 PM | Men's Tennis

PHILADELPHIA - The Drexel men's tennis team wrapped up its weekend with a 6-1 victory against Bucknell on Sunday evening at the Hecht/Hamlin Center. The Dragons won three of the four doubles matches and five of the six singles matches to earn the win. The men's victory was the 63rd of head coach Mehdi Rhazali's career with the Dragons, surpassing former coach Al Laverson for the most victories in program history.

Bernard Tefel and Sinan Orhon started things off strong defeating the Bucknell pair 6-3 at No.1. The team of Balaji Lakshmanan and Sanil Jagtiani then won 7-5 at No. 2 doubles, while Hamza Laalej and Xandy Hammitt captured a 6-3 decision at No. 3 for the doubles point.

In singles play, Laleej, Lakshmanan, Orhon and Jagtiani all battled for three-set victories while Tefel closed out the scoring at No. 5 with a straight-set victory.

RESULTS
Doubles
Bernard Tefel and Sinan Orhon def. Wright and Gerber 6-3
Balaji Lakshmanan and Sanil Jagtiani def. Max Kane and Timber Erskine,7-5
Hamza Laalej and Xandy Hammitt def. Max Mcdonald and Andrei Vitiuc 6-3
Collin Sacco and Drew Krantz def. Vuk Subotic and Youssef Lahlou 6-2

Singles
Hamza Laleej def. Dan Wright 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
Balaji Lakshmanan def. Andrei Vitiuc 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
Sinan Orhon def. Max Kane 6-7(4), 6-3, 10-2
Sanil Jagtiani def. Max McDonald 6-3, 7-6(6)
Bernard Tefel def. Ben Gerber 6-1, 6-4
Colin Sacco def. Xandy Hammitt 6-3, 6-3