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Men's Tennis Loses Season Opener Against No. 12 USC
1/23/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Jan. 23, 2002
FRESNO, Calif. - Hector Almada won his first match as a Bulldog, but 12th-ranked USC was victorious everywhere else in a 6-1 defeat of Fresno State at the Marks Tennis Center.
Almada, a sophomore transfer from Fresno City College, defeated Prakash Armitraj 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3 singles to secure the Bulldogs' lone point. Every other singles match was won by USC in straight sets with the exception of No. 5, where Greg Shearer, also in his first match at FS, extended Daniel Langre to three sets but lost 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.
The road gets no easier for Fresno State tomorrow, when the team travels across Los Angeles to take on No. 3 UCLA at 1:30 p.m. at the L.A. Tennis Center.
Singles
1) Andrew Park (USC) def. Stefan Suta (FS) 6-4, 6-1
2) Ryan Moore (USC) def. Nick Fustar (FS) 6-0, 6-1
3) Hector Almada (FS) def. Prakash Armitraj (USC) 6-4, 6-4
4) Nick Rainey (USC) def. Alex Krohn (FS) 6-1, 6-3
5) Daniel Langre (USC) def. Greg Shearer (FS) 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
6) Ruben Torres (USC) def. Dustin Ilic (FS) 7-5, 6-2
Doubles
1) Rainey/Moore (USC) def. Fustar/Ilic (FS) 8-2
2) Langre/Spizzo (USC) def. Almada/Krohn (FS) 9-7
3) Park/ Armitraj (USC) def. Suta/Shearer (FS) 8-1
