DETROIT, Mich. -- The Purdue University Northwest men's tennis team suffered a setback in a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match against the No. 25 team in the country Wayne State, 7-0, Sunday.
The Warriors (12-3, 2-0 GLIAC) defeated the Pride (3-7, 0-2 GLIAC) at WSU Tennis Courts, 7-0, Sunday.
Wayne State won two out of the three doubles matches to start the day to go ahead 1-0. Sophomores Leon Kah (Munich, Germany) and Dru Kennedy (LaPorte, Ind./LaPorte) won at No. 2 doubles against Wayne State's Niklas Karcz and Pierre Renaudie, 6-4.
Senior Moritz Gisy (Duesseldorf, Germany) and freshman Gregory Kvint (Philadephia, Penn./Lower Moreland) won two games at No. 1 doubles but WSU's Griffin Mertz and Taylor Vane picked up the victory, 6-2. Derek Sammons and David Solar won at No. 3 doubles against PNW's Mauricio Villacres (Guayaquil, Ecuador) and junior Jonluke Passett (Orland Park, Ill./Carl Sandberg), 6-2.
Kah put up a fight at No. 2 singles, nearly forcing a third set but Renaudie won the match, 6-3, 7-5. Gisy won three games in each of his sets at No. 1 singles but Karcz won the match, 6-3, 6-3.
Kennedy won a pair of games in both sets but Solar picked up the victory at No. 6 singles, 6-2, 6-2. Kvint recorded one game in the first set and three in the second but Van picked up the victory at No. 3 singles, 6-1, 6-3.
PNW returns to action Sunday, March 31 as the Pride host Davenport starting at 10 a.m. CT.