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No. 1 Men’s Tennis opens season with 6-1 win over Lamar
01.11.2025 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns defeated the Cardinals on Saturday to begin the 2025 season.
Austin – No. 1 Texas Men's Tennis opened the 2025 season with a 6-1 win over Lamar on Saturday at the Texas Tennis Center.
The Longhorns swept the doubles matches and earned singles victories from freshman Sebastian Eriksson at No. 5, sophomore No. 116 Lucas Brown at No. 3, junior No. 2 Sebastian Gorzny at No. 1 for the clinch, junior No. 20 Jonah Braswell at No. 2, and freshman Oliver Ojakaar at No. 4. For Eriksson, Gorzny and Ojakaar, those marked their first dual match singles wins as Longhorns, as Eriksson and Ojakaar just arrived on the 40 Acres this month, while Gorzny transferred from TCU this past summer.
Eriksson closed both sets of his win over Guy Dagan with 6-0 runs. Dagan took the opening game of the match on a deuce point and then won the first two games of the second set, but after those, it was all Eriksson in as he swept the rest of set each time for a 2-0 overall lead for Texas.
Brown began his match with a 6-0 run, as he topped Fabian Anthin, 6-0, 6-3. Anthin held to start the second set, but Brown picked up the first break on Anthin's next serve for a 2-1 lead and then consolidated with a deuce-point hold for 3-1. The next four games stayed on serve for a 5-3 lead for Brown until he broke on a deuce point for the 6-3 win to extend the Longhorns' lead to 3-0.
Gorzny then clinched the overall match with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Leon Nickel. Three of the first four games went to deuce with Nickel holding on a deuce point to open it. Gorzny also held and then took the next two games at deuce for a break and a hold as part of a 5-0 run. Nickel got one game back on a deuce-point hold before Gorzny served out the set. That would be the beginning of another 5-0 run for Gorzny as he established a 4-0 lead in the second set, breaking Nickel's first two serves on deuce points. The last four games then stayed on serve for Gorzny's win.
The teams played out the remaining singles matches with Braswell's 6-0, 6-2 win over Haruki Omori-Cowie giving Texas a 5-0 lead. Brawell took 10 of the first 11 games, including three deuce points in the first set, with Omori-Cowie only holding his first serve of the second set in that stretch. Omori-Cowie held again for 4-2 in the second before Braswell closed it out with a hold and deuce-point break.
Lamar got on the board as freshman Rahul Sachdev fell to Lukas Hamacher in a third-set superbreaker, 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (6), at No. 6. Both players picked up a deuce-point breaks to begin the match starting with Sachdev, and then both players held to make it 2-2. The next three games were all breaks until Sachdev held for 5-3 and then broke again for the set. The first three games of the second set were also breaks with Hamacher winning the last of those on a deuce point for a 2-1 lead before holding for 3-1. Sachdev held on a deuce point for 3-2, but Hamacher closed on a 3-0 run to send it to a superbreaker where he established a 9-4 lead. Sachdev fended off two match points to get within 9-6, but Hamacher captured the next point for the win.
Ojakaar completed the day with a superbreaker win of his own, 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (3), over Stefano Chappuis. Ojakaar got out of the gate with a 4-0 run and the last four games of the first set stayed on serve, capped by a deuce-point hold for Ojakaar. In the second set, it was Chappuis who pushed out to a lead, breaking for 3-1 and consolidating that for 4-1. Ojakaar got the break back for 5-4 before tying it at 5-5 on serve, but Chappuis broke again two games later for the 7-5 win. In the superbreaker, Ojakaar used a 5-0 run to turn a 2-2 tie into a 7-2 lead on his way to a 10-3 victory.
Earlier in doubles, Brown and Sachdev were first off the court with a 6-1 win over Chappuis and Santiago Ledesma at No. 1. The Cardinals picked up their only game of the match on a deuce-point hold in the third game, while the Longhorns finished it off with deuce-point wins for a hold and a break.
The newcomer tandem of Eriksson and Ojakaar then clinched the doubles point with a 6-2 win over Dagan and Omori-Cowie at No. 2. The Cardinals held on a deuce point to open the match, but the Longhorns also held and then picked up the first break for a 2-1 lead that they consolidated for 3-1. The next three games stayed on serve until Texas broke again for the win.
The teams also played out the doubles matches with Gorzny and Braswell wrapping them up with a 7-6 (5) win over Anthin and Nickel at No. 1. The first four games were all on serve until the Cardinals broke for a 3-2 lead, which they extended to 5-2 with an opportunity to serve for the match. However, the Longhorns turned it around with a 3-0 run to tie it. After breaking to regain the lead, Lamar had another opportunity to serve it out, but Texas responded with a deuce-point break to send it to a tiebreaker. There, the Longhorns took leads of 3-1 and 6-2, and although the Cardinals got back within on at 6-5, Gorzny and Braswell closed out the win on the next point.
Texas will be back on the courts at the Texas Tennis Center on Sunday at 11 a.m. CT against Abilene Christian.
#1 Texas 6, Lamar 1
Singles – Order of Finish (5,3,1,2,6,4)
1. #2 Sebastian Gorzny (UT) def. Leon Nickel (LAM) 6-2, 6-2
2. #20 Jonah Braswell (UT) def. Haruki Omori-Cowie (LAM) 6-0, 6-2
3. #116 Lucas Brown (UT) def. Fabian Anthin (LAM) 6-0, 6-3
4. Oliver Ojakaar (UT) def. Stefano Chappuis (LAM) 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (3)
5. Sebastian Eriksson (UT) def. Guy Dagan (LAM) 6-1, 6-3
6. Lukas Hamacher (LAM) def. Rahul Sachdev (UT) 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (6)
Doubles – Order of Finish (3,2,1)
1. Sebastian Gorzny/Jonah Braswell (UT) def. Fabian Anthin/Leon Nickel (LAM) 7-6 (5)
2. Sebastian Eriksson/Oliver Ojakaar (UT) def. Guy Dagan/Haruki Omori-Cowie (LAM) 6-2
3. Lucas Brown/Rahul Sachdev (UT) def. Stefano Chappuis/Santiago Ledesma (LAM) 6-1
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