[su_spacer size=”40″] “We challenged them last night to come out with a little more energy with this being the last tournament of the fall,” said Georgia associate head coach Bo Hodge. “They showed up this morning ready to play and we had a very good day. We’ll look to build on it tomorrow.”
[su_spacer size=”40″] In Athens, freshmen Emil Reinberg and Walker Duncan earned Georgia’s first doubles match of the day with a 6-3 defeat of Harvard’s Sebastian Beltrame and Kenny Tao. The Bulldogs picked up two more wins in doubles at the Bulldog Scramble during the second wave of action. Reinberg and Duncan picked up their second of the day over Georgia Tech’s Carlos Benito and Daniel Yun, 6-4. Freshman Andy Martinez and senior Nick Wood followed suit with a 6-4 score over South Carolina’s Alex Fennell and Sam Swank.
[su_spacer size=”40″] In afternoon singles action, Georgia claimed three more singles victories at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. Wood defeated Georgia Tech’s Daniel Yun 6-3, 6-2 to get off the court first for the Bulldogs. Martinez added another singles win to the Bulldogs’ total with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Notre Dame’s Nathan Griffen. Duncan was defeated by South Carolina’s Alex Fennell 6-3, 6-4 while Reinberg fell to Harvard’s Chris Morrow 7-5, 6-4.
[su_spacer size=”40″] Wagland and Smith completed their competition at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on a high note with two doubles victories. After dispatching Virginia’s top-seeded tandem of Mac Styslinger and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski in the morning (6-4, 6-4) to move into the finals, they topped the hometown pair in a third-set tiebreaker. Wagland and Smith defeated Columbia’s Mike Vermeer and Michal Rolski 6-3, 1-6, 1-0 (10-6) to end the road trip.
[su_spacer size=”40″] Georgia will wrap up play at the Bulldog Scramble on Sunday with doubles at 10 a.m. and singles at 11 a.m. to complete the fall season.
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