WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Oskar Antinheimo and Jack Curtis won their singles contests Monday in the Elon University men's tennis team's season opener, a 5-2 defeat against No. 15 Wake Forest. The match was played indoors at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex. 

BOX SCORE (PDF)
 
Antinheimo and Curtis both won match tiebreaks to put points on the board for the Phoenix. The loss drops Elon to 0-1 on the season while Wake Forest improved to 2-0 after winning two matches Monday. 
 
THE RUNDOWN

• The Demon Deacons won the doubles point after winning matches on Courts 2 and 3. 
• Wake Forest won the first four completed singles contests to go ahead 5-0. Juan Sengariz won Elon's only set in those matches, as the newcomer to the maroon and gold won his opening frame 6-2 against Wake's Luciano Tacchi at the No. 3 spot. Tacchi won the next two sets to win the match. 
• Making his college tennis debut at the No. 6 spot, freshman Jack Curtis, who joined the team this month, defeated Wake Forest's Saud Alhogbani 6-3, 4-6, 10-7. Curtis trailed 6-3 in the match tiebreak before winning seven of the next eight points for his first career victory. Curtis also played doubles at the No. 3 spot with Daniel Martin. 
• In the last match to finish, Oskar Antinheimo completed an impressive comeback on Court 4 to defeat Franco Capalbo, who is currently ranked No. 78 in the ITA singles rankings, 3-6, 6-4, 10-3. Antinheimo raced out to a 5-0 lead in the match tiebreak and never looked back. This was the sophomore's fourth career victory from a set down. 
• Veljko Krstic made his debut at the No. 1 singles position, losing to DK Suresh Ekambaram, the No. 54 ranked player in the ITA singles rankings, in straight sets. 
• In addition to Sengariz and Curtis, Dylan Heap also made his dual-match debut for the Phoenix, playing No. 1 doubles and No. 5 singles. 
• This was the third time Elon has won two points against Wake Forest in the nine meetings between the teams and the first time since their second matchup in 2008. 

 
UP NEXT
Elon will face Georgia State in another indoor match on Jan. 20. The contest will begin at noon. 
 
RESULTS
Singles
1. No. 54 DK Suresh Ekambaram (Wake) def. Veljko Krstic (Elon) 6-4, 6-2
2. Matthew Thomson (Wake) def. Daniel Martin (Elon) 6-3, 6-3
3. Luciano Tacchi (Wake) def. Juan Sengariz (Elon) 2-6, 6-1, 6-0
4. Oskar Antinheimo (Elon) def. No. 78 Franco Capalbo (Wake) 3-6, 6-4, 10-3
5. Luca Pow (Wake) def. Dylan Heap (Elon) 6-1, 6-1
6. Jack Curtis (Elon) def. Saud Alhogbani (Wake) 6-3, 4-6, 10-7
 
Doubles
1. Matthew Thompson/Filippo Moroni (Wake) vs. Dylan Heap/Juan Sengariz (Elon) 5-2, unfinished
2. Luciano Tacchi/Luca Pow (Wake) def. Oskar Antinheimo/Ben Zipay (Elon) 6-2
3. DK Suresh Ekambaram/Saud Alhogbani (Wake) def. Jack Curtis/Daniel Martin (Elon) 6-2
 
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2); Singles (2,5,1,3,6)