Coastal Men’s Tennis Battles Back to Defeat Elon 4-3

Friday, March 13

Elon, N.C.

2:30 p.m.

Coastal Carolina University

Elon

3/13/2026 8:29:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

ELON, N.C. – The Coastal Carolina men's tennis team rallied from a 3-0 deficit to defeat Elon 4–3 on Friday afternoon at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center in Elon, N.C.

With the win, Coastal Carolina improves to 9–5 overall, while Elon falls to 3–7 on the season.
Elon took the early lead by securing the doubles point with wins on courts one and three.
The Chants earned their lone doubles victory on court two as Rivers Cahill and Juan Cruz Collardin defeated Elon's Nicholas Fisk and Charles Pilet 6–3.
Christopher Norlin tied the match for the Chanticleers with a straight-set ranked win over No. 94 Veljko Krstic on court one.
Eric Tripathi followed with a three-set victory on court three, defeating Nikola Parichkov 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 to give Coastal a 2-1 lead.
Elon picked up wins on courts two and four to regain control 3-2.
The Chants closed out the match on the final two courts. Curzio Manucci earned a hard-fought three-set win on court five while Iannis Fernandes clinched the match for Coastal with a three-set win on court six.
The Chants will head back home to host Wichita State March 17 at noon.

Doubles

Krstic / Parichkov (Elon) def. Norlin / Fernandes (CCU) — 6–4
Cahill / Cruz Collardin (CCU) def. Fisk / Pilet (Elon) — 6–3
Antinheimo / Ymer (Elon) def. Garutti / Tripathi (CCU) — 6–1

Order of finish: Doubles (2, 3, 1)

Singles

Christopher Norlin (CCU) def. Veljko Krstic (Elon) — 7–6 (4), 6–2
Rafael Ymer (Elon) def. Juan Cruz Collardin (CCU) — 6–2, 0–6, 6–0
Eric Tripathi (CCU) def. Nikola Parichkov (Elon) — 4–6, 6–0, 6–2
Oskar Antinheimo (Elon) def. Enzo Garutti (CCU) — 6–3, 6–2
Curzio Manucci (CCU) def. Charles Pilet (Elon) — 7–5 (3), 6–7 (3), 6–0
Iannis Fernandes (CCU) def. Alonso Roca (Elon) — 6–7 (3), 6–2, 6–3

Order of finish: Singles (4, 2, 1, 3, 6, 5)

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