FLAGSTAFF, Arizona – The University of Denver men's tennis team took home a 4-3 win over Northern Arizona on Saturday, capturing four of the six singles points including the match decider in a third-set tiebreak.
Doubles:
DU dropped the doubles point despite close battles on Courts 1 and 3. Junior
Charlie Miller and redshirt senior
Anish Sriniketh battled to a tiebreaker in No. 3 Doubles for DU but fell 7-2 to give the point to NAU.
Singles:
Denver battled in singles, seeing four of its matches go to a third set. Miller and junior
Nicolas Herrero Cuesta won the only two singles matches to wrap up in straight sets, Herrero Cuesta doing so with matching 6-3 wins on Court 1 to win DU's first point of the day.
In No. 6 Singles, Miller fought back from a 3-0 deficit in the first set, breaking twice to take it 7-5 before joining Herrero Cuesta with a win in two sets.
Down 2-3 to NAU with only two matches remaining, Denver pushed both Court 2 and Court 4 to third sets after losing the first set on both courts in tiebreaks. Sophomore
Daniel Sancho Arbizu played a second tiebreak in the second set, this time winning it 7-2. In the third set, he broke midway through the third set to go up 4-2 and ended up taking the set 6-3 to tie up the team standings at 3-3.
Graduate student
Conner Olsen, too, came back to win the second set after dropping the first in a tiebreak and was down a break in the third before getting back on serve and forcing what would be a match-deciding tiebreaker – his second in as many matches. After going down 1-3 early in the decider, Olsen leveled things up and held on to take it 11-9 to clinch DU's victory.
Up Next:
DU returns to Denver Tennis Park for two home matches, hosting Air Force on February 3 at 5 p.m. MT and then welcoming Montana State on February 5 at 10:30 a.m. MT.
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