Men’s Tennis Opens Season With Loss At No. 11 Mississippi State

Sunday, January 12

Starkville, Miss.

2 PM

Samford University

Mississippi State

Men’s Tennis Opens Season With Loss At No. 11 Mississippi State

1.12.25 | Men's Tennis

Box Score

STARKVILLE, Miss. – The Samford men's tennis team opened the 2025 spring season with a 7-0 loss at 11^th-ranked Mississippi State Sunday afternoon.

Mississippi State won on the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles courts to take the first point of the match. The match at No. 2 doubles was not finished.

Mississippi State then won all six singles matches to take the match by a final score of 7-0.

Samford will next play at Troy on Friday, Jan. 17. The match is set for a 1 p.m. start.

MATCH RESULTS
#11 Mississippi State 7, Samford Men's Tennis 0
Singles competition
1. #45 Petar Jovanovic (MS) def. Sandeep Mohandoss (SAMM) 6-2, 6-1
2. #103 B. Sanchez Martinez (MS) def. Darcy Nicholls (SAMM) 6-3, 6-2
3. #72 Niccolo Baroni (MS) def. Hayden Menon (SAMM) 6-0, 6-0
4. #81 M. Martinez Serrano (MS) def. J.B. Pickard (SAMM) 6-1, 6-0
5. Michal Novansky (MS) def. Sebastian Harrison (SAMM) 7-5, 6-2
6. R. Ferrer Guimaraes (MS) def. Victorio Sardinha (SAMM) 6-1, 6-1

Doubles competition
1. #9 Petar Jovanovic/B. Sanchez Martinez (MS) def. Hayden Menon/Sandeep Mohandoss (SAMM) 6-2
2. #20 Niccolo Baroni/M. Martinez Serrano (MS) vs. Darcy Nicholls/J.B. Pickard (SAMM) 2-4, unfinished
3. Dusan Milanovic/Michal Novansky (MS) def. Sebastian Harrison/Victorio Sardinha (SAMM) 6-1

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