CLEVELAND, Miss. – The Lee University men's tennis team opened its regular season with a 6-1 win over Gulf South Conference (GSC) foe Delta State University. The Flames improved to 1-0 (1-0 GSC), while the Statesmen dropped to 4-2 (0-1 GSC).

Filipe Krohn and Stefan Mos opened doubles play with a 6-1 defeat of Juan Diego Alzate and Alejandro Bravo. Francisco Guimarães and Rytis Razminas secured the doubles point with a 6-4 win over Valentin Greco and Simon Ojeda. The No.21-ranked doubles team of Quinn Groenendijk and Jip Langerhuizen were leading Marti Cerda Castillo and Valentino Millimaci 4-3 when the doubles competition was determined.

Krohn, ranked No. 14 nationally, defeated Ojeda 6-1, 6-3 to run Lee's lead to 2-0. Langerhuizen won both of his sets against Greco by 6-2 margins. Groenendijk outlasted Alzate 7-6 in their opening set and clinched the team win with a 6-1 margin in the second set.

Razminas took down Millimaci 6-2 and 6-4 at the sixth position and Guimarães beat Bravo 7-5, 6-3 at No. 5 singles to push the Lee advantage to 6-0. Castillo turned aside Lee's shutout bid with a three-set win over Mos. Castillo won the opening set 6-4 and Mos forced a third set with a 7-5 score in the second set. Castillo won the superset tiebreaker 10-8 to win the No. 4 singles match.

The Flames are scheduled to be in Jefferson City, Tennessee, on Tuesday to take on Carson-Newman University. The non-conference matchup is set for a 2 p.m. start.
 
Coach Patric Hynes' thoughts:
"Delta are a much improved team with guys who fight hard. It's a good start for us. There's no such thing as an easy GSC contest."