Valdosta State's Alina Nagel hits a forehand during her match on Saturday.

Valdosta State’s tennis teams dropped matches with national powerhouse Armstrong Atlantic State on Saturday afternoon.

Armstrong Atlantic’s currently-undefeated teams defeated the Blazers 7-2 and the Lady Blazers 9-0.

Two Valdosta State men’s players upset two of Division II’s top three players. Christian Hansen, the No. 19 player in Division II, won a three-set battle with No. 1 Georgi Rumenov. After dropping the first set, 6-4, Hansen rebounded to win a tiebreaker, 10-4, to take the second set, 7-6. In the super tiebreaker, Hansen ran away with the win, 10-3.

Konstantin Kutschenko’s upset of No. 3 Eudaldo Bonet was also a three-set battle. Kutschenko, ranked 45th, also lost his first set, 6-1, but rebounded to take the next two, 6-3, 10-3.

Unfortunately for the Blazers, those were the only two matches they would win. The VSU men dropped to 8-8 on the season and the Lady Blazers fell to 8-9. Armstrong Atlantic State improved to 21-0 for the men and 20-0 for the women.

Hansen and Niklas Herbring fell 8-5 in top doubles to the No. 1 team of Mikk Irdoja and Rumenov. In No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, the teams of Tammo Haake and Sebastian Jasyk and Kutschenko and Nicola Kusy both fell 8-3.

In singles, the Blazers faced a total of five ranked opponents. Outside of Hansen and Kutschenko’s wins, the highly-ranked players proved to be too much for VSU. No. 10 Matus Mydla beat Herbring    6-2, 6-3, while No. 32 Sven Lalic beat Santiago Vidales, 6-0, 6-2. In the fifth spot, No. 35 Pedro Scocuglia defeated Kusy, 6-3, 6-2. In the only matchup without a ranked player, AASU’s Daniel Regan beat Jasy, 6-3, 6-4.

The Lady Blazers suffered much of the same fate against the nation’s No. 3 ranked team as the men did against Division II’s No. 1 team.

Armstrong Atlantic’s players were ranked in every match from No. 2 in top doubles to No. 30 in sixth singles.

In doubles, VSU’s Sarah Braun and Alina Nagel fell to No. 2 Aleksandra Filipovsk and Barbora Krtickova, 8-2. In the second spot, No. 10 Marlen Hacke and Olga Kalodzits defeated Michelle Fischer and Juliana Boehm, 8-3, the same score that Maja Ehses and Tina Trautmann fell to No. 15 Clara Perez and Kathleen Henry in No. 3 doubles.

In singles play, Fischer fell to No. 4 Krtickova, 6-1, 6-2, while Braun fell to No. 7 Filipovsk, 6-3, 6-2. Trautmann put up a fight initially against No. 20 Kalodzitsa, winning the first set 7-6, with a 10-4 victory in the tiebreaker. Kalodzitsa answered with a 6-0 sweep in the second set and a 10-1 win in the super tiebreaker.

Nagel and Boehm suffered similar fates in the fourth and fifth spots against No. 23 Henry and No. 24 Hacke, respectively. Nagel fell, 6-3, 6-2, while Boehm dropped, 6-2, 6-3. In the final singles match No. 30 Perez took down Jessica Tuggle, 6-1, 6-1.

Both the Blazers and the Lady Blazers will look to bounce back against Georgia College at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.