MOBILE, Ala. – The Cinderella run came to an end for the ABAC Stallions Friday in the semifinals of the Southern States Athletic Conference Men's Tennis Championship. One day after upsetting third-seeded Tennessee Southern, the sixth-seeded Stallions fell 4-0 to second-seeded Middle Georgia State University.
 
In the tournament, all matches are called after one team wins four matches. In singles, second-seeded Luka Blache fell to Dominik Simunovic 6-0, 3-6, 6-2; fifth-seeded Artur Lovison lost 6-1, 6-3 to Samyak Bajracharya; and sixth-seeded Matthew Rodgers lost 6-3, 6-2 to Nick Dufner. In the matches that were called before being completed, top-seeded Ryan Neveu was trailing Middle Georgia's Daniel Garcia Sanchez 6-3, 2-6, 2-1 while ABAC's third seed, Thibaut Blanchart, was leading his match against Adria Pratdepadua 3-6, 6-3, 1-0. In the final singles match, ABAC's Benjamin Ranby-Al was trailing Duarte Mestre 6-4, 5-4.
 
The Knights, ranked 15^th in the country, got their fourth point by winning two of the three doubles matches to take the doubles point. Neveu and Blache lost to Pratdepadua and Garcia Sanchez 6-0 while Blanchart and Rodgers lost to Simunovic and Bajracharya, 6-1. In the third match, ABAC's Ranby-Al and Maximilian Marquard were leading Neill Pillai and Dufner 5-3 when the doubles point was decided.