Tennis sweeps both sides of Camden as the ladies celebrate Senior Day

JERSEY CITY, NJ The New Jersey City University men’s and women’s tennis teams hosted New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) matches at Lincoln Park Tennis Center on Friday, April 7, when Rutgers-Camden came to town. The NJCU women, who also celebrated Senior Day in the afternoon, defeated the Scarlet Raptors 9-0. The Gothic Knight men also dispatched Camden 9-0.

Before the day’s action began, the NJCU women (7-3, 4-0 NJAC) recognized two of their graduating seniors, Giada Zorzan (Milan, Italy / Liceo dello Sport Marco Pantani) and Eliza Clamor (Auckland, New Zealand / Rangitoto College)and third year team member and team captain, Lockslea Mayers (Westminster, Md./Westminster). See images below courtesy of PrescodMedia.

Gallery: (4-7-2023) 2023 NJCU WTennis Senior Day

Women | NJCU 9, Rutgers-Camden 0

When the game started against Rutgers-Camden (2-6, 0-2 NJAC), the Gothic Knights buckled down and went to work. Second singles was the first to place as a sophomore Vanshita Malhotra (Barwala, India/DAV Model School) and Sara Zorzan (Milan, Italy / Liceo Falcone Borsellino)swept their opponents 8-0. The next country and the third double, where my own 8-0 victory was a freshmanSophia Jurina (Munich, Germany / Carl-Spitzweg-Gymnasium) and Mayers. In the end, Giada and Clamor finished with an 8-3 win at first doubles to move NJCU to 3-0 at singles.

Sara opened singles with a sweeping, 6-0, 6-0, win at No. 5 to make it 3-0 before Malhotra won her match at third singles (6-2, 6-0) to make it 4-0. In the end, Jurina won the fourth singles 6-1, 6-1. Freshman Mar Julia (Barcelona, ​​​​Spain / INS Sant Quirze) continued her winning ways for Jersey City, taking a 6-4, 6-1 victory at No. 6 before Giada earned a 6-1, 6-2 win at No. 1. The final match was the most challenging of the afternoon as Clamor won at second singles, 6-2, 7-6( 40.

Men | NJCU 9, Rutgers-Camden 0
For the Gothic Knights (6-6, 1-0 NJAC), it was their first conference game of the season, but they made quick work of the Scarlet Raptors (0-6, 0-2 NJAC) for a scoring sweep. Rutgers-Camden lost third doubles and sixth singles to start, allowing NJCU to take a 2-0 lead early in the doubleheader. Rookie Pedro Caro-Accino Roca (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain/British School of Gran Canaria) and a sophomore Joaquin Pluis (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Santa Felicitas)combined for an 8-0 win at second doubles to get things going before the junior Alexander Ley (Las Palmas, Spain / IES Polytechnic) and Jordi Julia (Barcelona, ​​​​Spain / IES Sant Quirze del Valles) capped it off with an 8-1 win at #1.

Leading 4-0 at the start of singles, Jersey City needed one more win to make it official, and Caro did it first, winning second singles 6-0, 6-0. Not far behind at third singles, Julia scored, 6-0, 6-0, also with a sweep. Ley was the second Gothic Knight to win 6-0, 6-0, doing so at first singles. Loras closed out his match at fourth singles 6-0, 6-1 before the junior Pau Torrebella (Palma de Mallorca, Spain/Banks) made his NJCU tennis debut at fifth singles, winning 6-4, 6-3.

Next:

The women get a few days off after playing just four matches in six days (result 4-0). They will return to action in Mahwah, NJ for more NJAC action on Monday afternoon, April 10th at Ramapo College beginning at 4:00 p.m. The Jersey City men will play another NJAC East Division game tomorrow, Saturday, April 8 on the road. SUNY at Oneonta, starting at 3:00 PM in Oneonta, NY They will then join the NJCU women in Mahwah on Monday, also at 4:00 PM