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AUBURN, Ala. -- The Virginia Tech men’s tennis team had a successful opening the spring season winning seven of 12 matches on the first day of the Auburn Spring Classic. The three-day event, including players from No. 46 Arkansas, No. 19 LSU, No. 28 Virginia Tech and the host No. 29 Tigers, is being played at the City of Auburn/Auburn University Yarbrough Tennis Center.

The event is scored individually with no team scores counted in the official results. The Hokies competed against players from Auburn on Friday winning five of the eight singles matches and splitting the four doubles contest.

Complete results follow:

Singles
1. #48 Alexey Tsyrenov (AU) def. Nicolas Delgado de Robles (VT) 7-5, 3-6, 6-1
2. Tim Puetz (AU) def. #100 Pedro Graber (VT) 6-4, 6-2
3. Lukas Marsoun (AU) def. Yoann Re (VT) 6-4, 6-2
4. Luka Somen (VT) def. Alex Stamchev (AU) 6-1, 6-4
5. Sebastien Jacques (VT) def. Milan Krnjetin (AU) 6-3, 7-5
6. Brandon Corace (VT) def. Alex Petropoulos (AU) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
7. Patrick Daciek (VT) def. Michel Monteiro (AU) 6-2, 6-0
8. Corrado Degli Incerti Tocci (VT) def. Powell Porter (AU) 6-3, 6-2

Doubles
1. #10 Puetz/Tsyrenov (AU) def. #20 Delgado de Robles/Somen (VT) 8-2
2. #19 Marsoun/Stamchev (AU) def. Jacques/Re (VT) 8-6
3. Daciek/Graber (VT) def. Krnjetin/Monteiro (AU) 8-2
4. Degli Incerti Tocci/Corace (VT) def. Petropoulos/Porter (AU) 8-3


The Hokies will continue play on Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m eastern against players from LSU.

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