Newark, NJ - The Hofstra University men's tennis team opened the spring season this weekend at the NJIT Winter Invitational. The round robin event featured the Pride, Bucknell, Fairfield and host NJIT. Overall, Hofstra went 7-10 in singles play and 3-6 in doubles action.

Jun Sasagawa and Shawn Jackson each went 2-1 on the weekend in singles.

Sasagawa had wins over George Svensson of NJIT (7-6, 6-1) and Ryan Jurist of Bucknell (6-1, 6-2). He dropped a three set match to Lewis Edwards of Fairfield (7-5, 2-6, 10-3). He also teamed with Yusuke Nishitani to go 1-2 in doubles. Jackson defeated Tyler Shibles of Fairfield), 6-4, 6-1, and Abdullah Fouad of NJIT, 6-3, 6-4. Jackson's loss came against Bucknell's Marwan Abaza (3-6, 3-6).

The Pride returns to action February 1 against Fairleigh Dickinson.

Full results of the NJIT Winer Invitational are as follows:

Day 1 results:
Tin Dizdarevic/Amine El Kholti (NJIT) def. Jonathan Mahrt Guyou/Giacomo Pezzoli (Hofstra), 6-2
Jun Sasagawa/Yusuke Nishitani (Hofstra) def. Marwan Abaza/Chunyu Chen (Bucknell), 6-4
Lewis Edwards/William Towsend Font (Fairfield) def. Shawn Jackson/Ostap Kovalenko (Hofstra), 6-3
Jun Sasagawa (Hofstra) def. George Svensson (NJIT), 7-6, 6-1
Jun Sasagawa (Hofstra) def. Ryan Jurist (Bucknell), 6-1, 6-2
Marwan Abaza (Bucknell) def. Shawn Jackson (Hofstra), 6-3, 6-3
Shawn Jackson (Hofstra) def. Tyler Shibles (Fairfield), 6-4, 6-1
Ammar Fekry (NJIT) def. Yusuke Nishitani (Hofstra), 6-2 6-4
Allan Magid (Fairfield) def. Yusuke Nishitani (Hofstra) 6-3, 6-4
Jonathan Mahrt Guyou (Hofstra) def. Per Astrom (Bucknell), 6-3, 6-3
Daniel Sabogal (NJIT) def. Jonathan Mahrt Guyou (Hofstra), 7-6 (5), 4-6, 11-9
Josh Smith (NJIT) def. Ostap Kovalenko (Hofstra) 6-3, 6-3
Giacomo Pezzoli (Hofstra) def. Allan Magid (Fairfield), 6-3, 6-1
Michael Owen (Bucknell) def. Giacomo Pezzoli (Hofstra), 6-1, 6-1
 
Day 2 Results
Lewis Edwards/Kaya Gore (Fairfield) def. Jun Sasagawa/Yusuke Nishitani (Hofstra), 6-2
Abdullah Fouad/George Svensson (NJIT) def. Jun Sasagawa/Yusuke Nishitani (Hofstra), 7-5
Griffin Schlesinger/William Towsend Font (Fairfield) def. Jonathan Mahrt Guyou/Giacomo Pezzoli (Hofstra), 2-6
Jonathan Mahrt Guyou/Giacomo Pezzoli (Hofstra) def. Ryan Jurist/Cooper Bradshaw (Bucknell), 6-3
Anmar Fekry/Amine El Kholti (NJIT) def. Shawn Jackson/Ostap Kovalenko (Hofstra) 6-4
Shawn Jackson/Ostap Kovalenko (Hofstra) def. Michael Owen/Ryan Jurist (Bucknell) 6-2
Shawn Jackson (Hofstra) def.  Abdullah Fouad (NJIT), 6-3, 6-4
Lewis Edwards (Fairfield) def. Jun Sasagawa (Hofstra), 7-5, 2-6, 10-3
Yusuke Nishitani (Hofstra) def. Luka Dragoljic (NJIT), 6-2, 1-0, ret.
Cooper Bradshaw (Bucknell) def. Ostap Kovalenko (Hofstra), 7-5, 7-6
Jan Parizek (Fairfield) def. Kian Ziari (Hofstra), 6-1, 6-2
Amine El Kholti (NJIT) def. Jonathan Mahrt Guyou (Hofstra) 6-4, 7-6 (6)