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Presbyterian (NCAA Championships First Round)
No. 10 Men's Tennis knocks off Presbyterian, 4-0 in NCAA Championships opener
05.12.2017 | Men's Tennis
Longhorns await No. 29 Tulane in the second round Saturday at 1 p.m. CT.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 10 Texas (20-8) claimed the doubles point and added three singles wins in an authoritative 4-0 win over Presbyterian (18-11) in the first round of the NCAA Championships. The Longhorns will take on No. 29 Tulane in the tournament's second round (round of 32) Saturday. First serve is set for 1 p.m. CT at Caswell Tennis Center.
Texas won doubles matches at the third and first positions to lock up the doubles point. Sophomores Colin Markes and Harrison Scott led off with a 6-0 win over Diego Manzanas and Jaime Lopez at third doubles. Presbyterian won at second doubles, but Texas' George Goldhoff and Leonardo Telles produced a late service break to fend off Presbyterian's Ben Kelley and Joel Roberts, 7-5 at first doubles.
Scott staked Texas to a 2-0 lead with his 6-1, 6-0 win over Brandon Mills at second singles. Christian Sigsgaard, selected Thursday as the Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year, put away Alexander Lykou 6-0, 6-1 at first singles to give Texas a 3-0 lead.
Sophomore Rodrigo Banzer finished off the Longhorns' victory with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Lopez at sixth singles. The remaining courts were suspended.
POST-MATCH COMMENTS
Texas head coach Michael Center
On the first-round win over Presbyterian
Presbyterian did some good things in doubles. They were pretty aggressive, and I thought we were a little flat at No. 2 doubles. We gave up our serve a couple times early where I thought we could have been a little more aggressive. In singles, we were pretty sharp. We got three pretty quickly. The first one is down, so now we have to get ready for a very good Tulane team.
On the last home match at Caswell on Saturday: Great weather and a big match tomorrow to move on to the round of 16. We hope to see a great crowd out here tomorrow. It will be George Goldhoff's last match out here, so please come and support the Horns tomorrow.
NCAA Championships First Round
No. 10 Texas 4, Presbyterian 0
Doubles – Order of Finish: 3, 2, 1
1 George Goldhoff/Leonardo Telles (UT) def. Ben Kelley/Joel Roberts (PC), 7-5
2 Alexander Lykou/Brandon Mills (PC) def. Christian Sisgsgaard/Julian Zlobinsky (UT), 6-4
3 Colin Markes/Harrison Scott (UT) def. Diego Manzanas/Jaime Lopez (PC), 6-0
Singles – Order of Finish: 2, 1, 6
1 No. 25 Christian Sigsgaard (UT) def. Alexander Lykou (PC), 6-0, 6-1
2 No. 36 Harrison Scott (UT) def. Brandon Mills (PC), 6-1, 6-0
3 No. 55 Yuya Ito (UT) vs. Diego Manzanas (PC), 6-4, 1-1, susp.
4 George Goldhoff (UT) vs. Ben Kelley (PC), 6-1, 5-0, susp.
5 Leonardo Telles (UT) vs. Alejandero Bejar (PC), 6-6, susp.
6 Rodrigo Banzer (UT) def. Jaime Lopez (PC), 6-2, 6-1
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