Coming off of two road losses and a bye week, the Oregon men’s tennis team returned to action at the Student Tennis Center on Friday and swiftly knocked out visiting Nebraska, 7-0. The Ducks maintain a perfect 6-0 record at home on the season with the victory.
Oregon is now at 7-3 for the 2014-15 season. Nebraska, who has yet to play a home match this spring season, is now 2-4.
“We showed up with a lot of energy from the get-go,” said Oregon head coach Nils Schyllander. “We played good from top to bottom, singles and doubles. It was a pretty complete team effort.”
The Ducks started the match strong with a sweep in doubles to win the point. The No. 1 team of Kevin Farin and Jayson Amos led Oregon’s campaign for the doubles point and made quick work of Nebraska’s Scott Elsass and Bradford Zitsch, 6-1.
Daan Maasland and Joey Swaysland won the point for the Ducks with a 6-3 win over Nebraska’s Dusty Boyer and Linus Erhart. The freshman No. 3 duo of Simon Stevens and Cormac Clissold were holding onto a 5-4 lead when play was stopped.
Stevens made a solid contribution later in singles, when he dished out a 6-0, 6-1 win over the Cornhuskers’ Chris Hogbarski. Clissold was next to win in singles, with a 6-1, 6-2 victory against Nebraska’s Vasileios Stavropoulos.
Farin clinched the win for Oregon over Marc Hermann 6-1, 6-4 on court four.
Though they had the win secured, both teams played out the rest of the matches. Amos and Nebraska’s Andrew Dzulynsky battled it out in a match that ended in Amos’ favor, 7-5, 6-4. Maasland and Boyer had one of the day’s longest match-ups that ended in favor of Maasland and Oregon, at 6-0, 7-6 ,(9-7).
Oregon senior Daniel Sardu ended the day with hard-fought three-set win over Erhart, 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-8.
Sardu’s singles win also marked his 70th career singles win, moving him into sole possession of third place in UO history for career singles wins.
“It feels good, but it’s always team first. I didn’t know actually that I had 70 wins, but that makes me proud obviously,” said Sardu with a smile. “But it’s good that we beat a pretty good team 7-0, that’s first.”
Oregon will return to the Student Tennis Center on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 11 a.m. to host No. 65 Santa Clara.
“Santa Clara are tough out, they got us last year down there, so we need to be mentally ready,” said Schyllander. “We need to enjoy this one for a couple of hours then get back to business.”
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Oregon men’s tennis posts clean sweep of Nebraska, 7-0
Sarah Scrivens
February 19, 2015
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