MADISON, Wis. – The No. 28-ranked University of Denver men's tennis team (10-0, 0-0 Summit) captured its third win over a Power-5 opponent with a 6-1 win at Wisconsin on Sunday.
 
With the win, Denver moved to a perfect 10-0 to begin the year, breaking a tie for the best start to a dual season in the program's Division I history. DU tied the previous record (9-0) with its neutral-site win over Butler on Saturday.
 
Doubles:
DU captured the doubles point with wins on Courts 2 and 3. After breaking in their first return game, DU's No. 2 team of graduate student Marvin Schaber and junior Daniel Sancho Arbizu found themselves back on serve before breaking twice more for a 6-2 win.
 
Senior Peter Sallay and sophomore Raffaello Papajcik clinched the point in a similar manner, breaking early before ending up back on serve. But with a break again late, they took the win for the second day in a row.
 
In No. 1 doubles, senior Nicolas Herrero Cuesta and junior Rikuto Yamaguchi came back from down an early break to level things at 3-all and were on serve at 5-4 when the match was abandoned.
 
Singles:
Denver earned a 2-0 lead before the start of singles when Wisconsin was forced to play with only five student-athletes, giving Denver a walkover win at No. 6 singles.
 
For the third match in a row, Sancho Arbizu won in straight sets while dropping five or fewer games, putting Denver within a point of the overall win. He earned the match's first break for a 3-1 lead in the first, his second of five consecutive games to finish the set. He traded breaks to begin the second set but again claimed a 3-1 lead on his way to a 6-2 win.
 
Schaber and Papajcik secured their wins within a minute of each other with the graduate student clinching the Denver win in his No. 3 singles match. In both of his sets, he gained the first break and turned 3-2 leads into 5-2 leads.
 
Moments later, Papajcik had a quick break lead in his first set but found himself level at 2-2. He broke again in the set's penultimate game and served it out for 6-4. He broke again in the first game of the second set and added an insurance break in the fifth game, eventually sealing it at 6-2.
 
Wisconsin got on the board with a win at No. 4 singles, though Sallay rallied back from a break down in the second set before giving up one last break late.
 
The day's top singles match ended in a 10-point tiebreak in place of the third set. Herrero Cuesta jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the first set before turn it into a 6-3 win, though his opponent would take the second set. In the match tiebreak, Herrero Cuesta never trailed after starting with a 3-0 lead and then adding a four-point streak for an 8-3 lead before closing it at 10-6.
 
Up Next:
The University of Denver men's tennis team returns home to host Montana on March 1 and then Wichita State on March 3.
 
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