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No. 3 Men’s Tennis sweeps No. 36 Arkansas, 4-0
03.29.2026 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns made a clean sweep of their two weekend home matches with a victory over Arkansas on Sunday.
Austin – No. 3 Texas Men's Tennis swept No. 36 Arkansas, 4-0, on Sunday at the Texas Tennis Center. The match was the Longhorns' fourth-straight win and completed a pair of sweeps in their weekend homestand, including defeating Tennessee on Friday.
Texas put together a solid doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 2 to capture the point, while also leading at No. 3 when play stopped. The Longhorns then followed with singles victories by freshman No. 90 Abel Forger at No. 4, sophomore Oliver Ojakaar at No. 3, and freshman Lucas Marionneau at No. 6 for the clinch.
During doubles, Forger and his partner freshman Kalin Ivanovski were first off the court by a matter of seconds with a 6-3 win over the No. 64 pair of Connor Smillie and Jakub Vrba at No. 1. The No. 23 duo of Marionneau and senior Sebastian Gorzny then clinched the point right behind that with a decisive 6-1 victory over Brendan Boland and Dmitry Kopilevich at No. 2. That left the match at No. 3 unfinished where the No. 19 pair of Ojakaar and sophomore Sebastian Eriksson had a 4-3 lead over Eric Padgham and Lukas Palovic when play stopped.
Forger quickly put together an efficient 6-1, 6-1 win to start off singles over Arsene Pougault at No. 4. Not long after that, there was another almost simultaneous finish as Ojakaar got home first with his 6-4, 6-1 win over Gabriel Elicha Navas at No. 3. Moments later, Marionneau provided the clinch with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Boland at No. 6.
That left three matches unfinished with No. 19 Ivanovski just two games away from a possible top-20 win over No. 18 Vrba, 7-6 (4), 4-1, at No. 1. No. 43 Eriksson had also come out on top of a close first set and held a 7-5, 3-1 lead over Palovic at No. 2. Meanwhile senior Jonah Braswell came up just short in a first-set tiebreaker to Kopilevich, 7-6 (5), at No. 5, and they had just begun their second set when play halted.
The Longhorns (18-6, 9-2 SEC) next go back on the road for a pair of matches next week, first at No. 27 Ole Miss on Thursday, April 2, at 1 p.m. CT, followed by at No. 23 Auburn on Saturday, April 4, at 12 p.m. CT.
#3 Texas 4, #36 Arkansas 0
Singles – Order of Finish (4,3,6)
1. #19 Kalin Ivanovski (TEX) vs. #18 Jakub Vrba (ARK) 7-6 (4), 4-1, unf.
2. #43 Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) vs. Lukas Palovic (ARK) 7-5, 3-1, unf.
3. Oliver Ojakaar (TEX) def. Gabriel Elicha Navas (ARK) 6-4, 6-1
4. #90 Abel Forger (TEX) def. Arsene Pougault (ARK) 6-1, 6-1
5. Jonah Braswell (TEX) vs. Dmitry Kopilevich (ARK) 6-7 (5), unf.
6. Lucas Marionneau (TEX) def. Brendan Boland (ARK) 6-3, 6-3
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,2)
1. Kalin Ivanovski/Abel Forger (TEX) def. #64 Connor Smillie/Jakub Vrba (ARK) 6-3
2. #23 Sebastian Gorzny/Lucas Marionneau (TEX) def. Brendan Boland/Dmitry Kopilevich (ARK) 6-1
3. #19 Sebastian Eriksson/Oliver Ojakaar (TEX) vs. Eric Padgham/Lukas Palovic (ARK) 4-3, unf.
Individual Match Key Moments
(by order of finish)
Doubles No. 1: Ivanovski/Forger (TEX) def. Smillie/Vrba (ARK) 6-3
Match: Texas earned the only break for 2-0 and had a match point at deuce while up 5-2, and even though Arkansas held, the Longhorns served it out in the next game.
Doubles No. 2: Gorzny/Marionneau (TEX) def. Boland/Kopilevich (ARK) 6-1
Match: Texas broke in the opening game and held for 2-0, and after Arkansas held at deuce for 2-1, the Longhorns closed on a 4-0 run.
Doubles No. 3: Eriksson/Ojakaar (TEX) vs. Padgham/Palovic (ARK) 4-3
Match: Texas broke in the second game for 2-0 and Arkansas broke back with the rest of the match staying on serve until play stopped.
Singles No. 4: Forger (TEX) def. Pougault (ARK) 6-1, 6-1
Set One: Forger pushed out to a 4-0 lead capped by consecutive deuce points and only surrendered a deuce-point hold to Pougault in the next game.
Set Two: Forger again only gave up a deuce-point hold to Pougault for 3-1.
Singles No. 3: Ojakaar (TEX) def. Elicha Navas (ARK) 6-4, 6-1
Set One: Ojakaar collected the only break for 6-4 and the set after having pushed Navas' previous two service games to deuce.
Set Two: Ojakaar only gave up a hold for 3-1 during the set.
Singles No. 6: Marionneau (TEX) def. Boland (ARK) 6-3, 6-3
Set One: Boland broke at deuce to start the match, but Marionneau won the next four games, including a deuce-point break for 3-1. The last four games were then all held.
Set Two: Marionneu produced the only breaks for a 3-2 lead and 6-3 for the set.
Singles No. 1: Ivanovski (TEX) vs. Vrba (ARK) 7-6 (4), 4-1, unf.
Set One: Ivanovski broke for a 5-4 lead, but Vrba broke back on the way to a tiebreaker.
Set One Tiebreaker: Vrba won the first point, but Ivanovski won the next six. Vrba won the following three, but Ivanovski closed it out on the next point.
Set Two: Ivanovski won the first three games on the way to 4-1 when play stopped.
Singles No. 2: Eriksson (TEX) vs. Palovic (ARK) 7-5, 3-1, unf.
Set One: Eriksson captured the only break for 6-5 before serving out.
Set Two: Palovic won the first game, but Eriksson took the last three before play stopped.
Singles No. 5: Braswell (TEX) vs. Kopilevich (ARK) 6-7 (5), unf
Set One: Kopilevich led 3-0 with two deuce-point breaks and then 5-1 before Braswell rallied to even it, 5-5. Both players held with Braswell doing so at deuce for a tiebreaker.
Set One Tiebreaker: Kopilevich took a 3-0 lead, and although Braswell caught up for 4-4, Kopilevich won the next two points on the way to 7-5.
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