Two Duos Ranked; Lomacki No. 38
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami men’s tennis team now claims two duos and a singles player on the Oracle/ITA national rankings list. Piotr Lomacki and Nile Clark have surfaced on the ITA rankings at No. 66, while Max Andrews and Bernard Tefel appear at No. 72. Sophomore Lomacki remains among the top-50 coming in at No. 38 this week.
Sophomore duo Clark and Lomacki first paired up on Jan 29 against UCF where they grabbed their first win at home. So far this season, the duo have grabbed two wins over the No. 30 and No. 10 ranked doubles pairs. Clark and Lomacki defeated No. 30 Jack Murray and Brayden Schnur of North Carolina, 6-4. Most recently the pair defeated 10th-ranked Mac Styslinger and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski of Virginia, 7-5, on April 17.
Andrews and Tefel appear on the list for the third straight week. Andrews and Tefel have also defeated a top- 50 pair, downing 12th-ranked Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim of Wake Forest.
No. 38 Lomacki (14-8; 5-6 ACC) has been on the rankings list every week this season. Lomacki boasts a five-match win streak and five defeats over ranked players. Most recently Lomacki defeated No. 55 Simon Norenius of NC State, 6-3, 7-6.
Eleventh-seeded Miami (8-14, 3-9 ACC) will square off against sixth-seeded Virginia Tech in the 2016 ACC Tennis Championship, at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. on Thursday at 4 p.m.
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