RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky University men's tennis team with 2-0 on Saturday with a 4-3 win over Lindsey Wilson and 7-0 sweep over Shawnee State at the Greg Adams Tennis Center.
 
EKU (3-5) will head into the meat of its non-conference schedule beginning next week on a two-match winning streak.  Saturday's matches were the Colonels last home events until Feb. 20.
 
The Colonels finished the 14-point doubleheader claiming 10-of-12 singles points and splitting the two doubles points over its opponents.  Junior Nuno Pinheiro improves to 5-0 on the season in singles play with two 6-2 and 6-0 straight-set wins from court No. 1.
 
Adrian Contreras, Christian Cantos Siemers, and Ryan Kitchin also went 2-0 in their singles matches on Saturday.  Kitchin, a senior from Sydney, Australia, had the clinching win on court No. 6 singles against Lindsey Wilson defeating his opponent in straight 6-1, 6-2 fashion.
 
In doubles, the duo of Kitchin and Contreras went 2-0 on the day with a 6-2 win over LWC and 6-0 win over SSU to improve to 3-3 on the season from court Nos. 2 and 3.
 
Match One – EKU 4, Lindsey Wilson 3
 
 Doubles
1. Santiago Passoni and Hans Schubert def. Nuno Pinheiro and Christian Cantos Siemers (EKU) 6-0
2. Adrian Contreras and Ryan Kitchin (EKU) def. German Delcano and. Lucas Marques (LWC) 6-2
3. Jaume Bercelo and Marcal Miret (LWC) def. Mario Monclus Martin and Karti Parhar (EKU) 6-3
 
Order of finish: 1,2,3
 
Singles
1. Nuno Pinheiro (EKU) def. Hans Schubert (LWC) 6-2, 6-2
2. Adrian Contreras (EKU) def. German Delcano (LWC) 6-3, 7-5
3. Christian Cantos Siemers (EKU) def. Santiago Passoni (LWC) 6-1, 6-2
4. Jaume Bercelo (LWC) def. Mario Monclus Martin (EKU) 6-3, 6-4
5. Marcal Miret (LWC) def. Darko Kolevski (EKU) 6-2, 6-1
6. Ryan Kitchin (EKU) def. Lucas Marques (LWC) 6-1, 6-3
 
Order of finish: 3,4,1,2,5,6
 
Match Two – EKU 7, Shawnee State 0
 
Doubles
1. Nuno Pinheiro and Christian Cantos Siemers (EKU) vs. Zinedine Alva Purbo and Daniel Cristobal (SSU) 4-1, unf.
2. Adrian Contreras and Ryan Kitchin (EKU) def. Matthew Justice and Aiden Pine (SSU) 6-0
3. Pepe Miralles and Kartik Parhar (EKU) def. Taylor Pack and Adam Stanley (SSU) 6-1
 
Order of finish: 2,3
 
Singles
1. Nuno Pinheiro (EKU) def. Daniel Cristobal (SSU) 6-0, 6-0
2. Adrian Contreras (EKU) def. Zinedine Alva Purbo (SSU) 6-0, 6-0
3. Christian Cantos Siemers (EKU) def. Adam Stanley (SSU) 6-2, 6-0
4. Kartik Parhar (EKU) def. Matthew Justice (SSU) 6-0, 6-0
5. Ryan Kitchin (EKU) def. Aiden Pine (SSU) 6-0, 6-0
6. Pepe Miralles (EKU) def. Taylor Pack (SSU) 6-0, 6-0
 
Order of finish: 4,1,2,3,5,6
 
Next Up
EKU returns to action next week in Cincinnati taking on Xavier at 2 p.m. ET.