Results

LINCOLN, Neb. - The [52] University of Denver men's tennis team won the doubles point and four of the six singles matches en route to a 5-2 road win at Nebraska on Friday night.

"Nebraska is a very good team, and the score doesn't indicate how tough of a match this was," first year head coach Ricardo Rubio said. "We had great performances from Alex Gasson and Diogo Rocha tonight. It's a quick turnaround as we have another great test against a very good Oregon team tomorrow.

The number two doubles tandem of Yannik James (St. Georges, Grenada)/Diogo Rocha (Lisbon, Portugal) and the number three doubles team of Jesse Ruder-Hook (Denver, Colo.)/David Fox (Chipstead, Surrey) both won their doubles matches, 6-4 and 6-0, respectively to give Denver a quick 1-0 lead with its first doubles point of the season. Ruder-Hook and Fox improved to 2-1 on the season.

James' fourth singles match finished first, giving Denver a 2-0 lead with a 6-0, 6-2 straight-set victory to record his first singles victory of the campaign. Junior Alex Gasson (Alton, United Kingdom) made it 3-0 Pioneers with a straight-set victory of his own, winning the number five singles court by a 6-2, 6-4 score line. Friday night's win was Gasson's second in three matches in 2016.

Nebraska was able to cut the lead to 3-2 with wins on the second and third singles courts, but three-set wins from Rocha and Ruder-Hook gave Denver the 5-2 victory. Rocha won the first singles court, erasing a set deficit 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Ruder-Hook also came back from a set down, winning the third-set tiebreaker 7-3 to claim his sixth-singles match.

Up next, Denver will take on [46] Oregon Saturday at 1 p.m. MT in Nebraska.

Doubles

No. 1 Dusty Boyer/Toby Boyer (NEB) dnf. Alex Gasson/Henry Craig (DU) 6-5

No. 2 Yannik James/Diogo Rocha (DU) def. Ford Zitsch/Andrew Dzulynsky (NEB) 6-4

No. 3 Jess Rudder-Hook/David Fox (DU) def. Scott Elsass/Marc Herrmann (NEB) 6-0

Order of Finish: 3,2

Singles

No. 1 Diogo Rocha (DU) def. Dusty Boyer (NEB) 3-6, 6-1, 6-4

No. 2 Marc Herrmann (NEB) def. Henry Craig (DU) 6-3, 6-3

No. 3 Toby Boyer (NEB) def. David Fox (DU) 3-6, 6-1, 6-1

No. 4 Yannik James (DU) def. Andrew Dzulynsky (NEB) 6-0, 6-2

No. 5 Alex Gasson (DU) def. Ford Zitsch (NEB) 6-2, 6-4

No. 6 Jesse Rudder-Hook (DU) def. Tomislav Antoljak (NEB) 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(7-3)

Order of Finish: 4,5,2,3,1,6