BRISTOL, Tenn. – The No. 14 Lee University men's tennis team opened its 2024 season with a 7-0 win at King University Sunday afternoon. The Flames improved to 1-0, while King dropped to 1-3.

Combined with the Lady Flames' win over King, Lee head coach Patric Hynes recorded his 300^th coaching victory with 180 of those coming at Lee.

Viktor Yanev and Quinn Groenendijk opened doubles competition with a 6-2 win over Tyler Meade and Mat Vieira. Francisco Faria and Yike Liu secured the doubles point by beating Alex Sodre and Isaac Yang 6-2. Wihan van der Merwe and Jordi Dasi doubled-up Rhys Halcrow and Andre Schiabel 6-3 to complete a sweep of the doubles matches.

The Flames went up 2-0 with a 6-2, 6-3 win by van der Merwe over Schiabel at No. 2 singles. Faria held off Halcrow to win their opening set 6-4 and claimed the match with a 6-1 margin in the second set. Groenendijk beat Sodre 6-0 and 6-4 to clinch the team win.

Dasi took down Yang 6-1 and 6-2 at No. 4 singles, while Liu won both sets against Meade by 6-1 scores. Yanev defeated Vieira 6-2 in the first set of No. 5 singles and completed the win and the shutout by outlasting Vieira 7-5 in the second set.

The Flames are scheduled to return to action on Saturday, February 10, at Carson-Newman University. The non-conference match is set for a 1 p.m. start.