University of Connecticut Athletics
Men's Tennis Ends Day Two At UConn Invitational
9/29/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
STORRS, Conn. (September 29, 2007) - Christian Malerba (Derby, Conn.) battled through the Flight 5 singles bracket to earn a place in the finals as the University of Connecticut men's tennis team wrapped up day two of the UConn Invitational on Saturday.
Malerba will face Rhode Island's Andrew Costin in the championship Sunday after defeating Bucknell's Mark Malloy in a tough three-set match (6-4, 1-6, 10-8) and Cole Conrad of Sacred Heart (6-4, 6-1) in the quarterfinals.
Tom Cook (Pittsford, N.Y.), too, had a difficult road. The UConn representative in the #6 singles took a come-from-behind three-set match of his own, defeating Monmouth's Vic Gupta (5-7, 6-1, 10-5) in the second round, only to drop his semifinal contest.
In #4 singles, Andrew Marcus (Potomac, Md.) made a strong showing through the semifinals, CHRISTIAN MALERBA
besting Fairfield and Quinnipiac's entries before
falling to Stony Brook's Artem Baradech in the semis.
All Huskies in the other five flights played in at least the second round of play, including UConn's top two singles players. In Flight 1, Joe Goldstein (Tucson, Ariz.) beat Monmouth Ben Evenden's (6-3, 7-6) in round one, only to be defeated by Ivan Rommel of Stony Brook in the second frame.
Goldstein's doubles partner, Ben Schueler (Arlington, Mass.) also fell in the second round, dropping a 6-1, 6-3 match to Quinnipiac in the #2 singles flight.
The Huskies wrap up the UConn Invitational Sunday with championship play in singles action and the semifinals and finals on the doubles side.
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