Baylor
SMU
Bears Fall to SMU in Season Opener
8/10/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Jan. 23, 2000
DALLAS - The No. 7-ranked Baylor men's tennis team lost their season-opening dual match at No. 12 SMU on Sunday, falling 5-2.
The Bears won two of three doubles matches to take the doubles point. The No. 6-ranked team of David Hodge and Mark Williams beat Toby Hansson and Jon Wallmark, 8-6. Johannes Michalsky and Csongor Bibza also won, beating Gerardo Mulas and Genius Chidzakwe 8-3. No. 27 Pawel Gajdzik and Johann Jooste fell to Dustin Mauck and Vinay Venkataraghavan, 8-5.
The latest addition to the Baylor team, Zoltan Papp, won his first match as a Bear, triumphing over Alexis Rudzinski, 6-3, 6-4, for Baylor's only singles win.
Sunday, January 23
SMU def. Baylor, 5-2
1. No. 32 Toby Hansson, SMU, def. No. 27 Johann Jooste, BU, 6-3, 7-5
2. Dustin Mauck, SMU, def. Pawel Gajdzik, BU, 6-1, 6-2
3. Gerardo Mulas, SMU, def. No. 75 David Hodge, BU, 7-5, 6-2
4. Jon Wallmark, SMU, def. Sean O'Connor, BU, 6-3, 6-3
5. No. 91 Genius Chidzakwe, SMU, def. Johannes Michalsky, BU, 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-4
6. Zoltan Papp, BU, def. Alexis Rudzinski, SMU, 6-3, 6-4
1. No. 6 Hodge/Mark Williams, BU, def. Hansson/Wallmark, 8-6
2. Mauck/Vinay Venkataraghavan, SMU, def. No. 27 Gajdzik/Jooste, BU, 8-5
3. Michalsky/Csongor Bibza, BU, def. Mulas/Chidzak
