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Men's Tennis
vs ITA Regional Championship
Sunday, September 20
Cary, N.C.
All Day
Duke University
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Day Three at James Bonk Invite
Blue Devils Finish Opening Weekend of Fall
9/20/2015 5:33:00 PM | Men's Tennis
CARY, N.C. – The Duke men's tennis team finished its opening weekend of fall action with only singles competition, recording three victories. Highlighting the day was sophomore Nicolas Alvarez placing second at the Oracle/Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Masters and freshman Vincent Lin winning the Duke James Bonk Invite black draw consolation finals.
In Malibu, Calif., Alvarez, ranked No. 7 in the Oracle/ITA preseason poll, battled with TCU's Cameron Norrie, who is ranked 15th in the preseason, before falling 6-3, 7-6 (2). Norrie jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the opening set. Alvarez cut the deficit down to 5-3, but Norrie held serve and closed out for the first set victory. In the second set, the two were tied 1-1, 2-2 and 3-3 before Norrie broke Alvarez to take a 4-3 lead. Norrie pushed the lead to 5-3 before Alvarez held serve and broke to retie the set, this time at 5-5. The two then went to the tiebreaker, which Norrie won 7-2.
In Cary, the Duke James Bonk Invite came to a close Sunday with Lin capturing a 6-3, 7-5 victory against Elon's Mario Paccini to clinch the black draw's consolation title. In the other portion of the black draw, senior Daniel McCall lost to Old Dominion's Jacob Nicolussi, 7-6 (0), 6-3.
In the blue draw, senior Josh Levine took seventh place with a 6-3, 6-2 win versus Elon's Robert Lindgren. Freshman Jason Lapidus also won his last match in the blue draw, topping Michael Ogden of N.C. State, 6-2, 6-3.
Freshman Adrian Chamdani wrapped up his weekend with a 6-3, 6-4 setback to Auburn's Dante Saleh in the fifth place match of the white draw. Sophomore Andrew DeJoy concluded his participation in the Duke James Bonk Invite with a 6-1, 6-1 loss to Radford's Nikhil Mannepalli.
The Blue Devils return to action in two weeks at the ITA All-American qualifying in Tulsa, Okla., from October 3-7.
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