The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
10.16.2020 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns split eight singles matches and won three out of four doubles contests.
Fort Worth – The Texas Men's Tennis team opened play at the TCU Invite on Friday and earned seven wins, including splitting eight singles matches and taking three out of four in doubles.
The Longhorns were facing opponents from Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and host TCU.
Texas won both of its doubles matches against Oklahoma by identical 8-5 scores, including from the pairing of senior Payton Holden and sophomore Siem Woldeab, and from freshman Micah Braswell and sophomore Jacob Bullard. The Longhorns split a pair of doubles matches against Baylor with freshman Leighton Allen and sophomore Eshan Talluri taking a 8-7 (5) tiebreaker win, while sophomore Cleeve Harper and junior Chih Chi Huang narrowly dropped an 8-6 decision.
Braswell and Bullard both picked up singles wins later in the day against Etienne Donnet and Luke Hammond from Oklahoma State, respectively, Talluri downed Eduardo Roldan of TCU, and Harper captured a win over Noah Schachter of Texas A&M.
Texas will return to the court Saturday with another round each of doubles and singles. There are no live stats, but fans can watch a video stream at https://web.playsight.com/facility/tcu/home
Singles
Micah Braswell (UT) def. Etienne Donnet, (OSU), 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
Jacob Bullard (UT) def. Luke Hammond (OSU), 6-3, 6-3
Eshan Talluri (UT) def. Eduardo Roldan (TCU), 6-4, 0-6, 6-4
Cleeve Harper (UT) def. Noah Schachter (TAM), 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
Emile Hudd (OSU) def. Siem Woldeab (UT), 7-5, 6-4
Barnaby Smith (TAM) def. Chih Chi Huang (UT), 6-2, 6-3
Pierce Rollins (TAM) def. Leighton Allen (UT), 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
Stefan Storch (TAM) def. Nevin Arimilli (UT), 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
Doubles
Payton Holden/Siem Woldeab (UT) def. Mason Beiler/Jake Van Emburgh (OU), 8-5
Micah Braswell/Jacob Bullard (UT) def. Matt Rodriguez/Justin Schlageter (OU), 8-5
Leighton Allen/Eshan Talluri (UT) def. Finn Bass/Sebastian Nothhaft, (BU), 8-7 (5)
Charlie Broom/Nick Stachowiak (BU) def. Cleeve Harper/Chih Chi Huang (UT), 8-6
