Sports > October 18, 2007

By Alisha Talbot | Staff writer

The Wake Forest men’s tennis team played in the South Carolina Fall Invitational this past weekend.

Representing the Deacs in the A-1 singles draw, sophomore Andrew Brasseaux lost his first-round match to Ivan Milijovecic of South Carolina State University, 6-1, 6-3. He then fell in a tough three-set 10-point tiebreaker to UNC-Wilmington’s Michael Pereira, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0(6).

Sophomore Jason Morgenstern who also played in the A-1 singles Draw took his first round match to Rafael Array of Armstrong Atlantic State, 7-6, 6-4. Morgenstern fell in his second-rough match to Mahmoud Hamed of the University of South Florida, 6-1, 6-1.

Wake’s junior transfer, Carlos Salmon played in the A-2 singles draw. Salmon fell in the first round to Ernesto Ramos of CCU, 6-2, 7-5.

In a tough two setter, Salmon lost to Francis Marion University’s Emmanuel Franklyn, 6-4, 6-4.

Senior Charles Sartor won his first-round match of the B-1 singles draw to Wofford’s Michael Schecter, 6-0, 6-1.

Sartor lost in the second round to Clemson’s Kevin Galloway, 6-3, 6-2.

The Doubles duo Brasseaux and Sartor represented for the deacons placing second in the A-1 doubles draw.

The pair took down Citadel’s Martin King and Yuto Sutantio in the first round, 8-0.

They went on to defeat South Carolina’s Pedro Campos and Ivan Cressoni, 8-5 and continued to the finals with a default from East Tennessee State University’s doubles team Alex Ahlgren and Oscar Posada.

Brasseaux and Sartor fell in the last round to Badr Bouabdellah and Razvan Axente of UT-C, 8-5.

In the A-2 doubles draw freshman Jon Wolff paired up with Salmon.

They defeated USC-Aiken’s Chris Kaetz and Bruno Seves, 8-5. They won their second round to Michael Nicol and Matt Martin of Presbyterian, 8-6.

They lost the semifinals match to Lander’s Andre Ivarsson and Henrik Willers, 8-6.