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BLACKSBURG – Senior Andreas Bjerrehus defeated No. 2-ranked Thai-Son Kwiatkowski on Sunday evening, but the Virginia Tech men’s tennis team fell to rival Virginia 6-1 at the Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center in Blacksburg, Virginia.

The Hokies (8-3, 1-1 ACC) fell behind after dropping a closely contested doubles point. Tech’s duo of Jai Corbett and Mitch Harper fell in the No. 3 to UVA’s (9-2, 2-0 ACC) J.C. Aragone and Henrik Wiersholm 6-4.

In the No. 2 doubles, the Hokies’ pair of Amerigo Contini and Edoardo Tessaro trailed 0-3 to Collin Altamirano and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski before rallying to come back and tie it up at 5-5. The Cavalier duo held on to take the final two points and secure the team point for UVA.

The No. 1 doubles was a showdown between two top-12 duos as Tech’s 12th-ranked Bjerrehus and Joao Monteiro battled 7th-ranked Luca Corinteli and Ryan Shane to a tiebreaker where the Hokies led 6-5, but the match went unfinished once the doubles point was decided.

Bjerrehus trailed 5-1 in the opening set before rallying against second-ranked Thai-Son Kwiatkowski to tie it up at 6-6 and force the tiebreaker. The two were knotted at 6-6 in the breaker, but Bjerrehus scored the final two points to secure the set 8-6. In the second set, Bjerrehus led at 5-2 before Kwiatkowski retired to get Hokies on the board, trailing UVA 3-1.

The ‘Hoos secured the match with a win in the No. 5 where Wiersholm was able to hold on against Harper for a pair of 7-5, 7-5 decisions.

Tech faced a pair of three-set battles on courts one and four. In the No. 1 the Hokies’ 20th-ranked Monteiro squared off against 14th-ranked Shane. After dropping the first set 6-3, Monteiro came back to win the second by the same margin. In the final set, Monteiro got up 3-1, but the UVA player responded as the two were knotted at 6-6 to go into the tiebreaker. Shane held on in the breaker 7-2 to claim the set and the match.

After being edged by 111th-ranked Aragone in the opening set 7-5, Tessaro trailed 3-1 in second before putting together a big comeback to knot it at 6-6. He took the tiebreaker 10-8 to force a third set where Aragone clinched the point for UVA with a 6-1 decision.

The Hokies will return to the court on Sunday, March 13 at Boston College. Match time is set for noon.

Singles
1. #14 Ryan Shane (UVA) def. #20 Joao Monteiro (VT) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(2)
2. Andreas Bjerrehus (VT) def. #2 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA) 7-6(6), 5-2 ret.
3. #29 Collin Altamirano (UVA) def. Amerigo Contini (VT) 6-2, 6-1
4. #111 J.C. Aragone (UVA) def. #76 Edoardo Tessaro (VT) 7-5, 6-7(8), 1-6
5. Henrik Wiersholm (UVA) def. Mitch Harper (VT) 7-5, 7-5
6. Luca Corinteli (UVA) def. Jai Corbett (VT) 6-4, 6-3
Order of finish: 3,6,2,5,1

Doubles
1. #12 Bjerrehus/Monteiro (VT) vs. #7 Corinteli/Shane (UVA) 6-6 dnf
2. Altamirano/Kwiatkowski (UVA) def. Contini/Tessaro (VT) 7-5
3. Aragone/Wiersholm (UVA) def. Corbett/Harper (VT) 6-4
Order of finish: 3,2

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