Men's Tennis Loses Third in a Row

Saturday, March 13

Fort Worth, TX

1:00 PM

North Carolina

TCU

June 21, 1999 | Men's Tennis

By: UNC Athletic Communications

March 14, 1999

FORT WORTH, Texas - The 58th-ranked North Carolina hung tough Saturday afternoon but still suffered a heartbreaking 4-3 loss to 34th-ranked Texas Christian at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center on the TCU campus in Fort Worth.

Carolina dropped its third successive match and fell in all three of its matches over spring break in Texas. Carolina will try to regroup this week when it travels to Montgomery, Ala. to play in the Blue-Gray Championships Thursday through Sunday. TCU improved to 9-3 on the campaign with its second straight win.

The Horned Frogs jumped to an early 1-0 lead when it captured two of the three doubles matches, winning by large margins at #1 and #3 while UNC's Michael Grass and Ben Elix won in a tiebreaker at #2 doubles. In the singles action, the Horned Frogs captured straight set victories at three of the spots, while the Tar Heels won a trio of gutty three-set matches, winning 6-4 in the third set of each of the matches. The winners for UNC were sophomore David Cheatwood at #3, junior Aron Breziner at #5 and freshman Ben Elix at #6.

Seventh-ranked Esteban Carril led the TCU effort by whipping UNC senior Michael Grass 6-2, 6-3 at #1 singles. At #1 doubles, the 18th-ranked tandem of Carril and Martin Jirak defeated UNC's Assaf Drori and Bjorn Rencken, 8-3.

#34 TEXAS CHRISTIAN 4, #58 NORTH CAROLINA 3

SINGLES
1. #7 Esteban Carril (TCU) d. Michael Grass (UNC), 6-2, 6-3
2. Trace Fielding (TCU) d. Assaf Drori (UNC), 6-1, 6-4
3. David Cheatwood (UNC) d. Scott Eddins (TCU), 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
4. Martin Jirak (TCU) d. Bjorn Rencken (UNC), 6-2, 6-4
5. Aron Breziner (UNC) d. Petr Koula (TCU), 7-6, 6-7, 6-4
6. Ben Elix (UNC) d. Sebastien Iannariello (TCU), 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

DOUBLES
(Played before singles, team winning majority of matches earns one team point)
1. #18 Esteban Carril/Martin Jirak (TCU) d. Assaf Drori/Bjorn Rencken (UNC), 8-3
2. Michael Grass/Ben Elix (UNC) d. Trace Fielding/Petr Koula (TCU), 9-8
3. Scott Eddins/Sebastian Iannariello (TCU) d. David Cheatwood/Aron Breziner (UNC), 8-4