The Basics
• Location: Baltimore, MD • McClure Tennis Center
• The Short Story: Junior Matt Lurie and sophomore Brian Wang won the consolation bracket of the Loyola Men's Tennis Invitational, placing ninth overall.
 
How it Happened
• The invitational was played as a Points of the Compass draw. At the end of each round, the winners continue their competition in the same direction, while the losers move to a traditional consolation bracket and then to satellite brackets that ensure each team will play four matches. The teams will play an eight-game pro-set doubles match, and the individuals will then face each other in best-of-three formats with the third set played as a super-tiebreaker.
• Lurie and Wang fell to Morgan State's Oguzhan Ceylan and Sebastian Lopez, 2-1, in the opening round. The Bears' team won the doubles match 7-6 (7) to take the first point. Lurie then won his singles match over Ceylan while Lopez beat Wang.
• In the consolation draw, the Blue Jay pair beat Nate Ferro and Grant Williford of Loyola, 3-0. They won the doubles match, 6-1 and then each won by a 6-0, 6-1 score in singles. Lurie and Wang followed that with a 3-0 win over Russell Armstrong and Jarrett Karnibad of Mount St. Mary's. They took the first point with a 6-3 win in doubles. Lurie beat Armstrong 6-0, 6-2 in singles while Wang topped Karnibad 6-2, 6-2.
• Lurie and Wang again won by a 3-0 score, defeating Serhii Kharchev and Mark Amaefule of Morgan State, in the ninth-place match. The pair won the doubles match, 6-4, to take a 1-0 lead. In singles, Lurie beat Kharchev 7-6 (4), 7-5 and Wang came from behind to beat Amaefule 2-6, 6-3, 1-0 (4).
 
Up Next
• Hopkins returns to action at the 2019 ITA Southeast Regional Championship as well as the Greyhounds Classic next weekend.