DENVER – The University of Denver men's tennis team won its first home match of the 2023 season, beating UC Davis 5-2 on Friday at Denver Tennis Park.
 
Doubles:
After dropping the first doubles match, DU's No. 2 team of junior Nicolas Herrero Cuesta and sophomore Daniel Sancho Arbizu leveled things up with a 6-3 win. UC Davis went on to win the doubles point with a win in 10-8 tiebreak victory in No. 1 doubles.
 
Singles:
DU started hot in singles, only dropping a combined eight games on the first three courts. Sancho Arbizu kicked it off on the No. 2 court with a bagel in his first set and lost only one game in his second set to give Denver its first point of the day. Juniors Peter Sallay and Herrero Cuesta followed close behind with Sallay winning 6-1 6-3 on the No. 3 court and Herrero Cuesta winning 6-1 6-2 on the No. 1 court.
 
Graduate student Conner Olsen clinched the match for Denver with a three-set victory in No. 5 singles. After winning the first set in a tiebreak, he rallied back from a second-set loss to easily take the third set 6-1.
 
Fellow graduate student Mitch Johnson, too, won in three sets, rallying back after dropping the first set in a tiebreak to win both the second and third sets – including saving four match points to force the deciding third-set tiebreak, which he won 7-0.
 
Up Next:
DU concludes its home-opening weekend when it hosts Rice on Sunday, January 22, at 10:30 a.m. MT at Denver Tennis Park.
 
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