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The No. 64 Nebraska men’s tennis team took down No. 39 Michigan, 4-2 in the first round of the Big Ten Men’s Tennis Tournament on Wednesday afternoon at Libbey Park in Ojai, Calif.
The No. 10 seed Huskers (12-13) advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament for the sixth year in a row beating out No. 7 seed Michigan (13-10) with four singles wins after dropping the doubles point to the Wolverines.
As NU started out doubles battling for the point, the Huskers were down 4-2 on all three courts. As Michigan broadened its lead in the matches, newly ranked No. 78 doubles pair of Joan Torres Espinosa/Leo Linquet (NEB) fell to Nicholas Steighlehner/Mert Oral (MICH), 2-6. Matt Shearer/Henry Lamchinniah (NEB) were the next to fall at No. 2 doubles dropping their match vs. Alex Cairo/Bjorn Swenson (MICH), 3-6.
Henry Bilcic/Nikolay Sysoev’s (NEB) match was abandoned at 4 all vs. No. 88 Max Dahlin/Pierce Shaya (MICH).
In singles play, the Huskers started by taking four out of the six first sets. Starting at No. 1 singles, No. 117 Sysoev had a tall task facing No. 8 Dahlin where he dropped his match to the Michigan freshman falling in two, 2-6, 2-6. Answering right back at No. 5 singles was Niels Van Der Sijs taking his 10th singles match win of the year over Cairo, 6-2, 6-3. Following the Van Der Sijs win was Espinosa with a win of his own vs. Arnav Bhandari, 6-4, 6-2, tying the overall match 2-2.
At No. 4 singles was freshman Jeri Lassila, winning his match in two sets vs. Steiglehner, 7-5, 6-4 and giving Nebraska the 3-2 lead over Michigan as Colson Wells and Linquet battled on their respective courts.
Wells was the one to complete the upset for the Huskers taking his match in straight sets, 7-6 [9-7], 6-3 vs. Oral as Nebraska took the match over Michigan, 4-2 avenging the loss that came to the Wolverines early in the season.
UP NEXT
Nebraska men’s tennis will once again face Ohio State (27-5) this time in the Big Ten Men’s Tennis Tournament quarterfinals tomorrow, April 23 at 5 p.m. (CT) at Libbey Park in Ojai, Calif.
WATCH THE ACTION
Nebraska's match vs. Ohio State will be streamed on Big Ten plus with tickets available for purchase at the Big Ten Men's Tennis Tournament page https://bigten.org/mten/article/58589/.
All links can be found on the schedule page of Nebraska men's tennis at huskers.com, as well as live updates for the match vs. Ohio State @HuskerMTennis.