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Blue Hens Fall to Host Old Dominion in CAA Quarterfinals, 4-0
 
DATE: April 17, 2009
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NORFOLK, Va. - Fourth-seeded Old Dominion earned a 4-0 victory over No. 5 Delaware in the first quarterfinal match of the 2009 CAA Men's Tennis Championship on Friday morning at the Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center in Norfolk, Va.

ODU earned the doubles point against Delaware as Tobias Fanselow and Matt Fawcett downed the Hens’ third-team All-CAA doubles duo of junior Austin Longacre and senior Nolan Greenberg (at right), 8-3, at number one and Yakov Diskin and Krzysztof Muzalewski topped freshman Andre Vorobyov and junior Camilo Perez, 8-2, at number three.

The Monarchs picked up three straight-set singles victories to wrap up the match. Aleksandr Seleznev, the CAA Player of the Year, beat CAA second-team singles honoree Longacre, 6-1, 6-4 at number one, Fanselow defeated Vorobyov, 6-0, 6-4, at number two, and Alex Funkhouser defeated freshman Courtney Scott, 6-0, 6-1, at number five. All other matches were left unfinished.

Delaware ends the season 10-5 (3-2 CAA).

AGATE

#4 Old Dominion 4, #5 Delaware 0

Singles
#1 Aleksandr Seleznev (ODU) d. Austin Longacre (UD), 6-1, 6-4
#2 Tobias Fanselow (ODU) d. Andre Vorobyov (UD), 6-0, 6-4
#3 Matt Fawcett (ODU) vs. Chris Hincker (UD), 6-5 - DNF
#4 Yakov Diskin (ODU) vs. Sam Barrer (UD), 6-3, 1-4 - DNF
#5 Alex Funkhouser (ODU) d. Courtney Scott (UD), 6-0, 6-1
#6 Krzysztof Muzalewski (ODU) vs. Nolan Greenberg (UD), 7-5, 3-2 - DNF

Doubles
#1 Fanselow/Fawcett (ODU) d. Longacre/Greenberg (UD), 8-3
#2 Seleznev/Funkhouser (ODU) vs. Vorobyov/Hincker (UD), 7-3 - DNF
#3 Diskin/Muzalewski (ODU) d. Vorobyov/Camilo Perez (UD), 8-2

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