{"id":5280,"date":"2024-01-26T23:13:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2024-01-26T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:14:02","slug":"mens-tennis-takes-down-west-alabama-tigers-during-midweek-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/26\/mens-tennis-takes-down-west-alabama-tigers-during-midweek-matchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis takes down West Alabama Tigers during midweek matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 TROY&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Men&#8217;s Tennis<\/a> took on the West Alabama Tigers earlier this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Troy (5-0) won the doubles point for the fifth time in five matches this season thanks to courts one and three. Luciano Alcocer and Yeray Andres Pastor won 6-4 on court one, while Noah Martens and Benjamin Ambrosio clinched the point for the Trojans with a 6-3 win on court three; the Trojans improved to 19-1 the last two seasons when winning the doubles point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor remained unbeaten (4-0) this spring with quick work on court five, where he dropped just two games in his two-set victory. Ambrosio won for the second straight time with a 6-2, 7-6 (1) victory on court four and Carles Anton clinched the win for Troy with an unconventional win on court two. Anton dropped the opening set 6-1 but rallied back to win the next two sets, losing just three games in the process (6-2, 6-1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mario Martinez Serrano continued his dominance on the top court, winning 6-2, 7-5 to move to 5-0 on the year and 25-3 in his career during dual matches, while Vicente Arbelaez moved to 3-0 on the year with a 6-2, 7-5 win on court six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Troy hits the road for a pair of matches this weekend with trips to Alabama State (Saturday) and Samford (Sunday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Troy 6, West Alabama 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Singles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Martinez, Mario (TROY) def. Lucas Hammond (UWA) 6-2, 7-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Anton, Carles (TROY) def. Eita Ishikawa (UWA) 1-6, 6-2, 6-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Wilson Igbinovia (UWA) def.&nbsp;Martens, Noah (TROY) 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 10-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Ambrosio, Benjamin (TROY) def.&nbsp;Nuutti Jokinen (UWA) 6-2, 7-6 (7-1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Pastor, Yeray (TROY) def. Vilislav Bonev (UWA) 6-1, 6-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Arbelaez, Vicente (TROY) def. Federico Iturbe (UWA) 6-2, 7-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doubles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Alcocer, Luciano\/Pastor, Yeray (TROY) def. Lucas Hammond\/Eita Ishikawa (UWA) 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Wilson Igbinovia\/Vilislav Bonev (UWA) def.&nbsp;Anton, Carles\/Martinez, Mario (TROY) 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Ambrosio, Benjamin\/Martens, Noah (TROY) def. Nuutti Jokinen\/Federico Iturbe (UWA) 6-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Order of finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (5,4,2,1,6,3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The print version of this story was provided by <em>Associate Director of Athletics\/ Communications\u00a0&amp; Creative Content<\/em><\/em> <em>Adam Prendergast<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 TROY&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Tennis took on the West Alabama Tigers earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>Troy (5-0) won the doubles point for the fifth time in five matches this season thanks to courts one and three. Luciano Alcocer and Yeray Andres Pastor won 6-4 on court one, while Noah Martens and Benjamin Ambrosio&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/26\/mens-tennis-takes-down-west-alabama-tigers-during-midweek-matchup\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}