Box Score ROME, Ga. — After two days of competition at the 2022 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Cup, hosted at the Rome Tennis Center on the campus of Berry College, New Jersey City University men's tennis junior captain Nico Teynie's (Rouen, France/Lycée Val de Seine) run has come to a close. The Gothic Knight went 1-1 in his first day of play on Thursday, Oct. 13, and today, Friday, Oct. 14, he competed once more and fell in three hard-fought sets.

All three of Teynie's matches at the ITA Cup went the distance — three full sets. After dropping his Round of 16 Championship match in three sets to his opponent from perennial power Emory University, the NJCU junior moved over to the back draw where he took down his foe from another national contender in Gustavus Adolphus College in three sets.

With the win, he advanced to the back draw semifinal today and faced off with Caleb Wilkins of Chapman University — a player who ended 2021-22 ranked #33 in all of Division III. Teynie once again, as he has now done in all three of his ITA Cup matches, won the first set 6-1 over Wilkins. Teynie's opponent from the Panthers then took the second set (6-4) to force a third and decisive set. There, the pair battled back and forth and found themselves in a tiebreak where Wilkins came out on top, 7-6(8-6).

Despite the loss, Teynie has cemented himself as one of the top players in all of Division III and continues to be the leader on a NJCU team that looks to contend for another New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) East Division title, which the Gothic Knights won in 2020-21 and finished as runners-up in 2021-22.

Up Next:
The First Team All-NJAC selection, along with the rest of Gothic Knights men's tennis team, returns to dual match action tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, Oct. 15, for their 2022-23 home opener. NJCU hosts perennial CUNYAC champion Baruch College at the Lincoln Park Tennis Courts for a 2:00 p.m. first-serve. Jersey City topped the Bearcats in the only previous series meeting on March 15, 2022, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens by a score of 8-1.