UCF Tops Tigers on Spring Trip

Friday, March 23

Orlando, Fla.

6:00 PM

Princeton University

Central Florida

Luke Gamble (pictured) and Damian Rodriguez beat the No. 7-ranked doubles team in the nation against UCF.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

March 23, 2018 | Men's Tennis

The doubles point went the way of the 46th-ranked Princeton men's tennis team, but singles play did not as host No. 40 UCF defeated the Tigers 6-1 Friday night at the USTA complex in Orlando.

Princeton will conclude its Florida trip Sunday at noon at Florida Gulf Coast.

"We played a great doubles point, but simply didn't back it up with better execution in singles," Princeton coach Billy Pate said. "We started clawing back and made a push, though we never quite got over the hump. The margins were close and this was a great opportunity that I feel we let slip away. We'll plan to bounce back and be ready Sunday."

Doubles play saw the Princeton pair of Luke Gamble and Damian Rodriguez defeat the seventh-ranked pair of Korey Lovett and Eero Vasa in a tiebreak, 7-6(3), and Diego Vives and Jimmy Wasserman clinched the point with a win at third doubles.

UCF then won three singles matches in straight sets before a three-setter at first for the clincher.

Doubles
1. Gamble/Rodriguez (Princeton) def. #7 Lovett/Vasa (UCF), 7-6(3)
2. Seggerman/Holden (Princeton) vs. Rubio/Enrique Paya (UCF), 5-5, unfinished
3. Diego Vives/Jimmy Wasserman (Princeton) def. DeCamps/Kerznerman (UCF), 6-4

Singles
1. Korey Lovett (UCF) def. Kial Kaiser (Princeton), 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
2. Gabriel DeCamps (UCF) def. Ryan Seggerman (Princeton), 6-1, 6-4
3. Alan Rubio (UCF) def. Luke Gamble (Princeton), 6-4, 7-5
4. Mikhail Sokolovskiy (UCF) def. Damian Rodriguez (Princeton), 6-1, 6-1
5. Eero Vasa (UCF) def. Davey Roberts (Princeton), 7-5, 6-3
6. Danny Kerznerman (UCF) def. Payton Holden (Princeton), 6-4, 5-7, (10-8)

Order of finish: Doubles (3,1); Singles (4,2,5,1,3,6)