The Monmouth University men’s tennis team was defeated 6-1 by Temple yesterday at Little Silver Tennis Club. Next week, Monmouth will host Holy Cross and Rider in a doubleheader on Saturday, February 11 at 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Monmouth fell to 2-1 on the season after suffering their first defeat of the year.
Men’s individual results 1. Marin Delmas (TEM) final Niels Van Noord (MON) 6-4, 6-4
2. Leo Raquin (TEM) final Dmitry Bezborodov (MON) 6-2, 7-5
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Louis Gorregues (TEM) final Victor Castro (MON) 6-2, 7-6 (5)
4. Final by Grégoire Barety (TEM). Lucca Silva (LUN) 7-6(4), 6-1
5. Thibault Frumholz (TEM) final Charlie Penman (MON) 6-2, 0-6, 6-4
6. Alexander Zuckerman (MON) def. Hussein El Tawil (TEM) 6-2, 6-3 Results of men’s doubles 1.
Marin Delmas and Gregoire Barety (TEM) final. Victor Castro and Niels Van Noord (MON) 7-5
2. Charlie Penman and Christof Zeiler (MON) r. Leo Raquin and Thibault Frumholz (TEM) 6-4
3. Final by Louis Gorregues and Hussein El Tawil (TEM).
Dmitry Bezborodov and Diego Laporta (MON) 7-6
About Monmouth University
Monmouth University is a private university located in West Long Branch in the state of New Jersey. Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became a university in 1995.
It currently has approximately 6,500 students and more than 73% of faculty members have a Ph.D. or Master’s degree. The student to faculty ratio is 15:1. 44% of students live on campus. Monmouth University’s placement in US News & World Report’s Top Universities rankings increased during the 2010s, rising from 76 in 2005 to 37 in 2012 and 30 in 2013 among regional universities in the northern United States .
However, despite rising to the rankings of US News & World Report, Monmouth University did not appear on Forbes Magazine’s List of America’s Best Universities until 2021. Monmouth University has held multiple academic symposia on the work of Bruce Springsteen and houses the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music.
Monmouth’s athletic teams are known as the Hawks. The Hawks compete as members of the Colonial Athletic Association. The school had competed as a Division I (NCAA) school in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference from 2013 to 2023. Photo Credits: Monmouth University photo