Lopes swept at Stanford

Friday, February 7

Stanford, Calif.

4 p.m.

Grand Canyon

Stanford

2/7/2020 5:54:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

Fucile, Franke capture historic win in doubles

By: Jerob Moon

STANFORD, Calif. — The Grand Canyon men's tennis team fell 4-0 at No. 8 Stanford on Friday in the first meeting between the schools.

Senior Lorenzo Fucile and freshman Can Franke provided the highlight for the Lopes (0-9) in doubles, taking down Stanford's No. 1 pair 6-3.

Fucile and Franke nearly defeated Arizona State's No. 1 pair earlier in this season, leading 5-3 when ASU clinched the dual to end the match. With Friday's win, the pair is 5-0 on the season for the best record on the team.

The other matches in doubles went the Cardinal's way with a 6-3 win over senior Valentin Lang and junior Freddie Grant at No. 2 and a 6-3 win at No. 3 over freshman David Weber and senior Justin Cvitanovic.

The singles lineup for the Lopes was shuffled with Lang, Grant, Weber and Mueller all moving up a spot after the previous match against San Francisco at home. GCU sophomore Maxim Kirsch earned his sixth start of the season at No. 6.

Stanford (5-1) came out strong in singles, taking all six first sets. The Cardinal had three nationally ranked players in its lineup with No. 21 Alexandre Rotsaert at court one, No. 57 Sangeet Sridhar at court two and No. 98 Neel Rajesh at court four.

Sridhar, Timothy Sah at No. 3 and Kento Perera at No. 6 all won in straight sets to clinch the win for Stanford while GCU's Mueller, Franke and Lang were left unfinished in the second set. Franke was leading 5-3 in the second set when his match was called.

The Lopes will be back in action Saturday at Stanford to take on Pacific at 10:30 a.m.