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Men's Tennis

Huskers Fall To Buckeyes on Senior Day

The No. 61 Nebraska men’s tennis team fell to No. 2 Ohio State by a score of 4-0 Sunday, spoiling the Huskers’ senior day and final home match at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Center.

The Big Red grabbed one doubles match on the day, along with two doubles and three singles losses in Sunday’s match. 

Powering a strong doubles match-up was Joan Torres Espinosa and Leo Linquet on court two. The duo picked up a win over No. 35 Alex Okonkwo/Alexander Bernard in a 6-3 showing. Nebraska dropped the doubles point in a tie-breaker on court one. Henry Bilicic and Nikolay Sysoev fell 7-6 [7-4] to the No. 3 doubles team of Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin. The first to finish was the Nebraska duo, Colson Wells/Henry Lamchiniah, in a 6-1 result to No. 43 Bryce Nakashima/Aidan Kim. 

Finishing singles action first were Nikola Sysoev and No. 12 Aidan Kim on court two, where Anthrop took back-to-back 6-0, 6-3 sets. 

The Huskers quickly dropped the next two matches on courts four and six. Wells fell to Filin 6-1 and 6-4 on court four, and Niels Van der Sijs battled to a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Nakashima on court six, securing the 4-0 sweep for the Buckeyes. 

Espinosa fought tooth and nail against Nikita Bernard on court five, where the match was left unfinished after a 7-6 [8-6] tiebreaker. Jeri Lassila’s match was also left unfinished against No. 26 Stearns at a score of 6-4, 4-3. 

The No. 1 singles match between Leo Linquet and No. 24 Jack Anthrop was left unfinished with Linquet leading 6-4, 4-4.

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Nebraska men's tennis (11-13) will be the 10 seed in the Big Ten Men's Tennis Tournament as it takes on the 7 seed Michigan (13-9) in the first round on Wednesday, April 22 at 4 p.m. (CT). 

Tournament information can be found at https://bigten.org/mten/article/58589/ or linked on huskers.com.