No. 3 Coastal Falls to No. 2 South Alabama in Sun Belt Semifinals

Saturday, April 20

Peachtree City, Ga.

3:00 PM ET

Coastal Carolina University

No. 2 South Alabama

4/20/2019 8:33:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Chris Henry

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. – The Coastal Carolina men's tennis team had its season come to an end Saturday afternoon as the Chanticleers suffered a 4-0 loss to No. 2 South Alabama in the semifinals of the 2019 Sun Belt Championship.

Coastal ends its season 16-8 overall. South Alabama advances to Sunday's championship match and will face No. 1 Georgia State.

The shortened match began later than originally scheduled, with the 3:00 p.m. match pushed back to 4:45 p.m. The match was also played outdoors, unlike Friday's quarterfinal matches that were forced indoors due to weather.

South Alabama claimed the doubles point with wins on the first and third courts.

Loic Chloes and Clement Marzol defeated Luiz Faria and Lawrence Perrin, 6-1, at No. 1, while Louis Delcour teamed with Maxime Lapraille at No. 3 to down Pyry Hyrkkonen and Daiki Tanabe, 6-2.

Delcour earned USA's first singles point with a 6-0, 6-0 sweep of Tanabe at No. 3. Marzol gave the Jags a 3-0 lead following a 6-3, 6-0 win against Hyrkkonen at No. 3. Cloes finished the match defeating Zak Talic 6-0, 7-6 at No. 2.

South Alabama 4, Coastal Carolina 0
Singles competition
1. Modica, Sacha (USA) vs. Faria, Luiz (CCU) 6-4, 5-4, unfinished
2. Cloes, Loic (USA) def. Talic, Zak (CCU) 6-0, 7-6 (7-1)
3. Marzol, Clement (USA) def. Hyrkkonen, Pyry (CCU) 6-3, 6-0
4. Lapraille, Maxime (USA) vs. Popov, Joel (CCU) 4-6, 6-1, 1-0, unfinished
5. Scheufler, Collin (USA) vs. Achondo, Gonzalo (CCU) 7-5, 5-2, unfinished
6. Delcour, Louis (USA) def. Tanabe, Daiki (CCU) 6-0, 6-0

Doubles competition
1. Cloes, Loic/Marzol, Clement (USA) def. Faria, Luiz/Perrin, Lawrence (CCU) 6-1
2. Modica, Sacha/Serrano, Sam (USA) vs. Popov, Joel/Talic, Zak (CCU) 4-3, unfinished
3. Delcour, Louis/Lapraille, Maxime (USA) def. Hyrkkonen, Pyry/Tanabe, Daiki (CCU) 6-2

Match Notes:
Coastal Carolina 16-8, 5-2 Sun Belt
South Alabama 17-6, 5-1 Sun Belt
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (6,3,2,4,1,5)
2019 Sun Belt Men's Tennis Championship - Match 5