SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Converse University men's tennis team will play a pair of opponents this weekend in Mars Hill and Limestone University.
On Saturday afternoon, the Valkyries will welcome Mars Hill to the Converse University tennis courts and Sunday afternoon, they will make the short trip over to Limestone.
This is the second time the Valkyries and the Lions will be meeting up this season, back in the fall Converse eked out a 4-3 win at Mars Hill. Despite losing the doubles point in the match, the Valkyries rallied with four straight single court wins at the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 6 courts to defeat the Lions for the first time in program history.
This will be the third all-time meeting between Converse and Limestone dating back to last season. Neither team has held serve on their home court as the away team has come away with the win in the two prior meetings. The Valkyries win over the Saints in the Fall of 2021 was the Valkyries first win in program history.
Converse Notes:
Mars Hill Notes:
- Mars Hill is 2-4 this season with wins over Johnson C. Smith and North Greenville back in the fall. The Lions have lost four straight matches and are coming off a 5-2 loss to Young Harris at the start of the month.
- The Lions won the doubles point against Young Harris in dramatic fashion as the final court came down to an 8-6 tiebreak. In singles action, however, Mars Hill lost on courts 1-5 and picked up their lone win at the No. 6 singles flight.
- Marcos Martinez and Jose Roa both led the Lions with four wins in singles action this season. Youssef Ardouni is second on the team with three wins and Eliot Deknuydt is fourth on the team with two wins.
- The Lions best doubles duo of Deknuydt/Faris Hadzisadikovic is 4-0 at the No. 2 doubles flight. The tandems of Martinez/Roa and Ardouni/Diego Lopez are both 2-1 at flights No.1 and No. 3.
Limestone Notes:
- Limestone is 0-1 this season with their lone loss coming to Emmanuel back in the fall. This Sunday will be the Saints first contest of the Spring semester.
- In the Saints only match of the season they won the doubles point by winning the first two courts. Despite the early lead, the Saints only managed to win twice on the singles courts at the No. 4 and No. 5 flights.
- The Saints doubles tandems of Diego Arzaluz/Ramiro Rincon Hernandez and Andres Cortes/Rodolfo Villavicencio are both 1-0 this season.
- In singles action Andre Zamorano and Rodolfo Villavicencio are both 1-0 this year.
