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No. 6 Men’s Tennis takes 6-1 victory at Arkansas
02.10.2019 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns won their second straight road match to move to 9-0 this season.
Austin, Texas – The No. 6 Texas Men's Tennis team took a 6-1 victory at Arkansas on Sunday at the Dills Indoor Courts in Fayetteville, Ark. It was the Longhorns' second-straight road win to move them to 9-0 this season and their third straight win over the Razorbacks.
For the second straight match, senior Colin Markes set the pace in singles by getting Texas on the board first with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Pedro Dominguez Alonso in fifth singles. Markes took the last two games to win first set. He dropped the first game of the second set, but then reeled off five-straight for a 5-1 lead before finishing the match and his ninth-straight singles win.
Senior Harrison Scott bounced back from his defeat at Tulsa to take a solid 6-2, 6-4 win over Enrique Paya in fourth singles for a 3-1 Texas lead. Scott jumped out to a 3-0 lead in his first set and never looked back, but fell behind 3-1 in the second before knotting it, 3-3. It was tied, 4-4 before he put away the last two games for the win.
Junior No. 14 Yuya Ito then clinched the team victory with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Josh Howard-Tripp in second singles that marked his 12th-straight singles win. In the first set, he picked up the final three games to break a 3-3 tie, while in the second set he ran off four straight for a 4-1 lead that led to the win.
The teams played out the singles matches as junior No. 6 Christian Sigsgaard rallied for a 6-7 (2), 6-3, 1-0 (6) win over No. 97 Oscar Mesquida in first singles. After dropping the first set tiebreaker, he took the second set by winning three straight games after being knotted, 2-2. Sigsgaard finished the match with four straight points to end the 10-point breaker in the third.
Freshman Chih Chi Huang then rounded out the scoring with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Jose Dominguez Alonso that was Huang's 13th-straight singles victory. The lone Texas defeat on the day came as senior No. 91 Leonardo Telles fell to Alex Reco, 6-3, 6-4.
Texas took the doubles point led by No. 13 Scott and Sigsgaard who opened a quick 3-0 lead against Paya and Maxim Verboven on their way to a 6-2 win. Both of the Longhorns' other pairs dropped the first game and fell behind 2-1, but both recovered for leads. Huang and Ito won their 10th straight doubles match and clinched the point with a 6-2 victory over Pedro and Jose Dominguez Alonso, while Markes and Telles took a 5-3 lead over Reco and Mesquida before the match was left unfinished.
Texas will now head to Chicago to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Indoor Championship from Feb. 15-18. Draws for the tournament will be released on Wednesday, Feb. 13. The Longhorns advanced there after winning the ITA Kickoff Weekend with wins over Washington and Miami (Fla.) in Austin on Jan. 25-26.
No. 6 Texas 6, Arkansas 1
Singles – Order of Finish (5,3,4,2,1,6)
1. #6 Christian Sigsgaard (UT) def. #97 Oscar Mesquida (AR), 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 10-6
2. #14 Yuya Ito (UT) def. Josh Howard-Tripp (AR), 6-3, 6-2
3. Alex Reco (AR) def. #91 Leonardo Telles (UT), 6-3, 6-4
4. Harrison Scott (UT) def. Enrique Paya (AR), 6-2, 6-4
5. Colin Markes (UT) def. Pedro Alonso (AR), 6-4, 6-2
6. Chih Chi Huang (UT) def. Jose Alonso (AR), 6-4, 6-3
Doubles – Order of Finish (3,1)
1. #13 Christian Sigsgaard/Harrison Scott (UT) def. Enrique Paya/Maxim Verboven (AR), 6-2
2. Leonardo Telles/Colin Markes (UT) vs. Alex Reco/Oscar Mesquida (AR), 5-3, unfinished
3. Yuya Ito/Chih Chi Huang (UT) def. Pedro Alonso/Jose Alonso (AR), 6-2
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