Box Score MURFREESBORO, Tenn. | Defending Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) champion Alabama State dropped their season opener 7-0 to Middle Tennessee at the Adams Tennis Complex Sunday afternoon.
 
Middle Tennessee (4-1) jumped out early on Alabama State (0-1) by winning both doubles matches. The Blue Raiders' top team of Tom Moonen and Chris Edge defeated Alabama State's team of Ion Efrim and Alexis Collard, 6-0; before the number three team of Alabama State's Tomas Fernandez and Carl-Louis Luckmann fell 6-1.
 
In singles play, Collard dropped his first collegiate singles match to Moonen 6-2, 6-1 to give Middle Tennessee a 3-0 overall lead in the match. The Blue Raiders clinched the match when Luckmann fell to Middle Tennessee's Nicolas Buitrago 6-1, 6-4 at number four singles.
 
Fernandez pushed his match to the brink of going three sets, before falling to Chris Edge of Middle Tennessee 6-1, 7-5.
 
Alabama State returns to action January 27 on the road in Birmingham (Ala.) against Samford.
 
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