No. 20 Men's Tennis Edges No. 48 FAU, 4-3

Jan. 31, 2001

CORAL GABLES, Fla.– The University of Miami men’s tennis team (1-0) opened their spring season with a victory over intra-state rival Florida Atlantic (1-1). Miami won three of the six singles matches and swept all three doubles matches en route to its 4-3 victory.

UM received singles victories from Michael Lang (Sarasota, Fla.), Jose Lieberman (Los Angeles, Ca.) and Andrew Golub (Miami, Fla.).

Lang defeated Yalin Bilgin, 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2 singles, while Lieberman downed Sandro Spotti, 6-4, 7-6 (4) at the No. 5 spot and Golub won at No. 6 defeating Cristian Paiz, 7-5, 6-1.

The No. 20 ranked Hurricanes return to action on Saturday traveling to face No. 70 Southern Mississippi.

• Singles

1. Doug Devriendt (FAU) d. Peter Hoffman (UM) 3-6, 7-6 (5), 4-62. Michael Lang (UM) d. Yalin Bilgin (FAU) 6-4, 6-23. Martin Jirak (FAU) d. Johan Lindqvist 1-6, 3-64. Andre Buzzoni (FAU) d. Tomas Smid 6-7 (4), 6-2, 5-75. Jose Lieberman (UM) d. Sandro Spotti 6-4, 7-6 (4)6. Andrew Golub (UM) d. Cristian Paiz 7-5, 6-1

Doubles

1. Hoffman/Smid (UM) d. Devriendt/ Bilgin (FAU) 8-62. Lang/Lieberman (UM) d. Jirak/ Paiz (FAU) 8-63. Lindqvist/Golub (UM) d. Cruz/Lewis (FAU) 8-1