DENVER – The No. 71-ranked University of Denver men's tennis team (13-5, 3-0 Summit) posted a second 7-0 sweep in as many matches – both against Summit League opponents – with its win over North Dakota at Denver Tennis Park on Saturday.
DU won its eighth consecutive doubles point, dropping just three games across wins on the Nos. 2 and 3 courts before collecting five straight-sets wins and a victory in a match tiebreak to secure the sweep
Doubles:
Denver's No. 3 doubles team of senior
Raffaello Papajcik and freshman
Aaron Beduhn started things off with their best result of the dual match season thus far, a 6-1 victory off three total breaks including in the seventh and final game.
Senior
Ryoma Mishiro and sophomore
Samuel Rovai clinched he doubles point – their team-best fourth time doing so – in a 6-2 win in the No. 2 spot. They broke in their first return game and added a second for a 5-1 lead. UND's Ilic/Matsumura got one of the breaks back in the following game, but Mishiro/Rovai answered back with yet another break to finish it off.
At No. 1 doubles, graduate student
Connor Robb-Wilcox and sophomore
Theo Coats were a game away from adding another win for DU, breaking in the third game and leading 5-3 when the match was abandoned.
Singles:
In his first NCAA season, Beduhn got to 20 singles wins with a 6-0 6-4 performance on Saturday – his fewest games lost and his first bagel set in a dual this year so far. He won the first six games of the match before the second set became a back-and-forth affair with both players breaking multiple times. Beduhn came away with his fourth break of the set to seal it, 6-4.
Robb-Wilcox, too, got to the 20-win mark on Saturday with his fifth consecutive straight-sets win. Breaks in the third, fifth and seventh games of the first set gave him a 6-1 lead, and he followed it up with a break for 2-0 in the second set. Twice, he traded breaks in consecutive games in the second set but was able to gain a 5-1 lead on his way to a 6-3 win.
Papajcik clinched the dual at 4-0 with his own win in straight sets on the No. 1 court. Like his doubles partner Beduhn, he opened with a bagel in the first set. After going down a break to start the second set, he got back level at 2-2, though he exchanged breaks in back-to-back games twice over the next five games, eventually sitting at 5-5 before breaking for a fourth time in the set in the 12
th and final game.
Fellow senior Mishiro kept things rolling for Denver with a 6-3 6-4 win, his fourth victory in a row and his third in straight sets. He traded breaks early in the second and third games of the match but reclaimed a break lead for 4-2, using two more holds to finish it off. After four consecutive games to the server to begin the second set, the returner broke in each of the next five with Mishiro gaining a 5-4 advantage and going on to serve it out in the next game.
The only match to go beyond two sets was Rovai's at No. 2 singles. Most of the first set went to the server, getting all the way to a 6-5 lead for the DU sophomore. His second break of the match came in that 12
th game, giving him a set lead. The second set saw more breaks and ultimately went to North Dakota's Darrshan Suresh Kumar, 6-4, sending the match to a 10-point tiebreak to decide it. Rovai went ahead 4-2 at the first changeover and held as much as a 7-2 lead before Suresh Kumar tightened things late. The Pioneer held on and won the final three points for a 10-7 win.
A couple of 7-3 wins in tiebreaks gave Coats a straight-sets win for the 10
th time in the 2026 dual season and confirmed the sweep for DU on the day. He started the match with a break in the first game but saw UND's Jusin Ilic break back for 5-5, sending the set to its first tiebreak. Coats lost the first point but rattled off six in a row to get to set point and finished it off at 7-3. Four breaks in a row early in the second set ended with seven consecutive holds, again resulting in a tiebreak. The second breaker provided tighter, sitting even at 3-3 at the changeover before Coats ran away with it for another 7-3 win.
Up Next:
The No. 73-ranked University of Denver men's tennis team hosts its non-conference finale and its final home match of the season when it plays Nevada on Sunday, April 12, at 11 a.m. MT. Following the match, DU will recognize its two seniors and one graduate student for a Senior Day celebration.
