DENVER – The University of Denver men's tennis team (3-0, 0-0 Summit) captured its first sweep over Utah in DU's Division I history with a 4-0 win at Denver Tennis Park on Friday.
 
Denver rallied to win the doubles point before adding three straight-sets wins in singles to clinch the victory
 
Doubles:
DU got halfway to the doubles point with a 6-1 win on Court 2 from senior Nicolas Herrero Cuesta and junior Rikuto Yamaguchi after rattling off six consecutive games.
 
Denver's No. 1 doubles team of graduate students Marvin Schaber and Anish Sriniketh clawed back from a 1-3 deficit to get back on serve at 3-4 before breaking yet again in the match's final game.
 
Junior Daniel Sancho Arbizu and sophomore Raffaello Papajcik held a 5-4 break lead in their No. 3 doubles match, also after trailing by a break early, though their match was abandoned.
 
Singles:
Schaber dropped just two games at No. 3 singles to give Denver to 2-0 overall lead. Each set followed nearly identical pathways to 6-1 conclusions with Schaber going up 2-1 and then 5-1 in both.
 
Herrero Cuesta came back from an early break down in No. 1 singles to take the first set, 6-4, before locking up a bagel in the second – his second-straight singles match with a 6-0 set.
 
Like Schaber, Sancho Arbizu went up 2-1, then 4-1 and 5-1 before winning his first set, 6-2, in the No. 2 singles match. The second set began on serve before he began to pull away with a 3-2 lead and then added another break for 5-2, eventually securing another 6-2 set to give the dual to Denver.
 
In the unfinished matches, Sriniketh traded breaks in his first before getting a final break late for 7-5. His second set was on serve when the dual was clinched. Yamaguchi dropped his opening set but forced a third set with a 7-5 win of his own. In his first singles match of the season, senior Charlie Miller also lost his first set but had things on equal terms at 2-all in the second.
 
Up Next:
The University of Denver men's tennis team continues its home-opening weekend when it hosts UTSA at Denver Tennis Park on Sunday, February 4, at 2 p.m. MT.
 
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