Brown Upends Men's Tennis, 6-1

Sunday, February 12

Providence, RI

10 AM

Boston University

Brown

Dion Loutas moves to his right to hit a forehand on a tennis ball hanging in the air.

Photo by: Matt Woolverton

February 12, 2023 | Men's Tennis

Box Score

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Playing its third match of the weekend, the Boston University men's tennis team fell at Brown, 6-1, on Sunday afternoon.

The Bears (7-3) won the first two doubles matches with an identical score of 6-3 and then captured three of their five singles points in straight sets, as the Terriers (4-3) saw their win streak snapped at four matches.

Sophomore Dion Loutas and freshman Alejandro Licea were leading at No. 1 doubles, 4-3, when their match was halted due to the Bears prevailing in the No. 2 and 3 slots. Loutas followed up by rolling to a 6-3, 6-4 victory at No. 1 singles against Noah Hernandez, a five-star recruit who ranked as high as No. 32 nationally before joining the Bears over the summer.

In other singles action, Licea rallied from a set down to force a third in the No. 3 slot but was broken early in a 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-1 defeat. Sophomore Cole Knutsen also rallied from a set down before ultimately coming up just short, 7-6(5), 3-6, 10-3.

The Terriers will next head to New York on Feb. 18-19. They will visit St. John's on Saturday (Feb. 18) at 7 p.m. and then Wagner (Feb. 19) at 6 p.m.

Brown - 6, Boston University - 1

SINGLES
1) Dion Loutas (BU) def. Noah Hernandez (Brown): 6-3, 6-4
2) Niraj Komatineni (Brown) def. Corey Craig (BU): 6-2, 6-2
3) Oliver Worth (Brown) def. Alejandro Licea (BU): 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-1
4) Alexander Koong (Brown) def. Jonah Dickson (BU): 6-1, 7-6(4)
5) Roger Chou (Brown) def. Ben Letzer (BU): 6-1, 6-3
6) Sam Feldman (Brown) def. Cole Knutsen (Brown): 7-6(5), 3-6, 10-3

DOUBLES
1) Loutas/Licea (BU) led Hernandez/Finkelstein (Brown): 4-3
2) Komatineni/Worth (Brown) def. Dickson/Knutsen (BU): 6-3
3) Alexander Bravo/Feldman (Brown) def. Adrian Pawlowski / Johann Sajonz (BU): 6-3