GRAND FORKS, North Dakota – The No. 63-ranked University of Denver men's tennis team (14-7) secured the 2023 Summit League regular-season championship with a 5-2 win at North Dakota on Sunday.
 
Denver has now won four consecutive regular-season titles and its eighth since joining the Summit League in 2013-14. DU has finished undefeated in league play each time it has won the regular-season championship.
 
Doubles:
UND took a 1-0 lead after winning the doubles points with victories in the Nos. 1 and 3 matches – both coming in tiebreaks. DU's No. 2 team of sophomore Daniel Sancho Arbizu and freshman Raffaello Papajcik, too, were in a tiebreak when the point was decided.
 
Singles:
Graduate student Conner Olsen earned DU's first point of the day with his fourth-straight win at No. 4 singles, dropping just one game in each set. Junior Peter Sallay extended his win streak to six with a straight-sets win at No. 3 singles to give Denver its first lead of the day at 2-1.
 
Sancho Arbizu put DU within one point of the win, also winning in straight sets at No. 2 singles. He took the first set after breaking for a 4-2 lead before fighting through a second-set tiebreak where he also took a mini-break lead at 4-2 and then added an insurance mini-break for 5-2.
 
Redshirt senior Anish Sriniketh moved into the No. 6 singles spot at the last minute and went on to clinch the dual for Denver. He was down a break in the first set but fought back to get to a tiebreak where he was up 5-1 at the change of ends and closed it out at 7-2. In the second set, he broke first for a 2-1 lead and then broke again for 5-2.
 
Junior Nicolas Herrero Cuesta added another point for Denver in a hard-fought battle in No. 1 singles. After dropping the first set, he kept the second set on serve all the way to a tiebreak and earned the first mini-break for 5-3, holding on for a 7-5 win. He broke in the fourth game of the third set and added another break at 5-2 before serving it out.
 
Up Next:
The 2023 Summit League Men's Tennis Championship will be held April 21-22, hosted by Oral Roberts. DU has clinched the No. 1 seed for the tournament and will await official announcement of the tournament field.
 
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