Aggie Men's Tennis sweeps TCU, 7-0

Wednesday, February 23

Fort Worth, Texas

6:00 PM

Texas A&M

TCU

Feb 23, 2011 | Men's Tennis

By: Texas A&M Athletics

Feb. 23, 2011

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Senior Aggie All-American doubles team of Austin Krajicek (Brandon, FL) and Jeff Dadamo (Tampa, FL) provided early momentum for the 14th-ranked Texas A&M men's tennis team as the Aggies went on the roadand swept a non-conferencematch against 47th-ranked TCU in Fort Worth on Wednesday, 7-0.

All three doubles matches were very close, and at No. 1 the match was tied at five when Krajicek and Dadamo were down 15-40 before Krajicek hit a cross court forehand winner and from that point the Aggie march was on. The top-ranked Aggie duo finished off the match against the country's No. 48 doubles team of Emanuel Brighiu and Christopher Price to clinch the doubles point, 8-5.

"All three doubles matches were close at the time when Austin Krajicek had an ESPN moment," Aggie head coach Steve Denton said. "With the match tied at 5-5 and Austin and Jeff (Dadamo) were down 15-40 and Austin chased down a lob over Jeff's head and hit a forehand cross court winner and the momentum really turned in our favor from that point on in every match."

"I was really pleased with the poise and fight of this group and I liked what I saw tonight against a very solid TCU team," Denton explained. "This is a veteran group of guys and they knew this would be a challenge and they responded very well."

The Aggies (7-3) got off to a good start with the doubles point as freshman Junior Ore (and senior Alexey Grigorov (Moscow, Russia) were the first match off with an 8-5 win over Slah Mbarek and Cameron Nash of TCU. Sophomore Alberto Bautista (McAllen, TX)and junior Colin Hoover (Victoria, TX)outlasted Zach Nichols and Daniel Sanchez, in a 9-8 tiebreaker, at the No. 3 line.

In singles play the Aggies swept all matches in straight sets with Krajicek, ranked No. 29 in the land,first off with a 6-2, 6-4 win at the No. 1 line. Grigorov was next at the No. 4 line with a 6-2, 6-4 win. The match was clinched at the No. 2 position as Dadamo, ranked No. 49 defeated TCU's Mbarek, 6-4, 6-3.

The next match decided was at the No. 6 position where sophomore Niall Angus (London, England) beat Cameron Nash, 6-3, 6-3. Alexis Klegou (Dunkerque, France), ranked No. 121 in the latest rankings, won 6-4, 7-5 at the No. 3 line against Zach Nichols. The final match of the evening was at the No. 5 line where Bautista defeated Sanchez, 6-4, 6-4.

The Horned Frogs fall to 2-4 on the year.

The Aggies next actionwill be Sunday, Feb. 27 against LSU at 1 p.m. followed by a match againstUT-Arlington at 6 p.m. at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center.

SINGLES:

1.No. 29 Austin Krajicek (A&M) def. Emanuel Brighiu (TCU)-- 6-2, 6-4

2. No. 49 Jeff Dadamo (A&M) def. Slah Mbarek (TCU)-- 6-4, 6-3

3. No. 121 Alexis Klegou (A&M) def. Zach Nichols (TCU)-- 6-4, 7-5

4. Alexey Grigorov (A&M) def. Christopher Price (TCU)-- 6-2, 6-4

5. Alberto Bautista (A&M) def. Daniel Sanchez (TCU)-- 6-4, 6-4

6. Niall Angus (A&M) def. Cameron Nash (TCU)-- 6-3, 6-3

DOUBLES:

1. No. 1 Krajicek/Dadamo (A&M) def. No. 48 Brighiu/Price (TCU)-- 8-5

2. Junior Ore/Grigorov (A&M) def. Mbarek/Nash (TCU)-- 8-5

3. No. 57 Bautista/Hoover (A&M) def. Nichols/Sanchez (TCU)-- 9-8

Order of Finish: Doubles 2,1,3