WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – William & Mary men's tennis avenged its CAA Quarterfinal loss from a season ago by upending the No. 4 seed Monmouth, 4-1, on Friday afternoon at the Mackesy Tennis Center.
 
The Hawks (15-6) won the previous two meetings between the teams. Along with the CAA Tourney win last season, Monmouth squeaked by the Tribe, 4-3, in a March meeting in New Jersey.
 
Leading 3-1, graduate student Bill Duo won the final two points of his service game, cashing in his third match point and fending off a break point, to clinch the Tribe victory. He pulled out a 6-4, 6-4 win over Alex Martinez Sanz at No. 4 to send the Tribe into the CAA semifinals. Duo upped his mark to 12-6 on the year.
 
Unlike the regular-season meeting, W&M (13-9) captured the doubles point to take a 1-0 lead behind wins at No. 2 and No. 3. The Green and Gold jumped out to break leads early in all three matches. Graduate student Satchel Benn and freshman Oliver Hague won their 13th-straight contest at No. 2, topping Adam Hillerby and Gabriel Berner, 6-3, to put W&M in front. The Tribe pair improved to 18-5 on the year.
 
Juniors Sean Joseph and Alexander Karman put the finishing touches on the initial point of the match with a win at No. 3. Joseph's ace on match point cemented the win and lifted the Tribe duo to a 6-4 triumph over Gabriel Busato and Diego Laporta. Karman and Joseph moved to 3-1 on line three.
 
In a matchup of two of the top freshmen in the CAA at No. 3, Tribe rookie Oliver Hague extended the lead to 2-0. He won the opening set from Gabriel Berner, 6-2, before the Hawk rookie took an early break lead in the second. Hague answered to pull out the second set, 6-3, for his fifth-straight win. It was his team-leading 24th win of the season, which ranks eighth in W&M history for a freshman.
 
After a Monmouth win at No. 1, graduate student Konstantinos Raptis pulled the Tribe within one of the team victory. The Tribe graduate student downed Adam Hillerby, 6-3, 6-4, on line two to give W&M a 3-1 lead. He won his fourth match in a row and improved to 17-15 on the year.
 
W&M advances to the CAA Semifinals where it meets top seed and No. 52-ranked UNCW on Saturday. The contest carries a noon start at the Mackesy Tennis Center. The CAA Championship match is set for Sunday.
 
William & Mary 4, Monmouth 1
Singles
No. 1 – Mateo Bivol (Monmouth) def. Satchel Benn (W&M) – 6-3, 6-4
No. 2 – Konstantinos Raptis (W&M) def. Adam Hillerby (Monmouth) – 6-3, 6-4
No. 3 – Oliver Hague (W&M) def. Gabriel Berner (Monmouth) – 6-2, 6-3
No. 4 – Bill Duo (W&M) def. Alex Martinez Sanz (Monmouth) – 6-4, 6-4
No. 5 – Gabriel Busato (Monmouth) vs. Albert Hansen (W&M) – DNF, 7-6 (3), 5-1
No. 6 – Christof Zeiler (Monmouth) vs. Sean Joseph (W&M) – DNF, 7-5, 3-3
Finishing Order: 3, 1, 2, 4*
 
Doubles
No. 1 – Duo/Raptis (W&M) vs. Bivol/Sanz (Monmouth) – DNF, 5-4
No. 2 – Benn/Hague (W&M) def. Hillberby/Berner (Monmouth) – 6-3
No. 3 – Joseph/Karman (W&M) def. Laporta/Busato (Monmouth) – 6-4
Finishing Order: 2, 3*