Men’s Tennis takes out UWOsh 9-0 and Lake Forest 8-1

Breakdown

The UW-Whitewater Men’s Tennis team hosted a couple of matches this weekend at Four Lakes Athletic Club in Elkhorn, WI.

In both matches the Warhawks were able to get a lot of reserve players important match experience as we were able to play 12 players in the Oshkosh match and 11 players in the Lake Forest match.  To see our website story and for the box scores for each of the matches, go to: http://uwwsports.com/news/2015/2/7/MTEN_0207153926.aspx 

Navratil Attack 

First up for the Warhawks was Oshkosh.  The Titans had a strong top of the lineup, especially in doubles.  Our #1 duo of Shklyar and Treis were up for the challenge and took out their opponents 8-4.  At #2 and #3 doubles we were able to come 8-1 wins at each position.  In singles, no player relinquished more than three games in any match, and it was great to see Bowman get his first chance of the season in the lineup.

Between matches the team went to Lake Geneva for dinner and stumbled upon an ice sculpture contest.  It was great to see so much UWW support for these matches, and many of the team’s parents joined us for dinner at the lake.

In the nightcap match the Warhawk took on Lake Forest.  Against the Foresters it was more of the same solid play as we took the doubles matches 8-0, 8-2, and 8-2.  It was great to see Matt Zurowski and Seb Lauterbach clicking together for the first time as a freshman combo at #3.  Lauterbach got his first taste of the singles lineup in this match and he had the battle of the day, going 3 sets at #6. He found himself down 5-1 in the match tiebreak, then climbed back to 6-5 and was rolling before losing a tough battle.

Laktash Rally 

This coming weekend we have two more important matches.  On Saturday we play Carroll University at noon at Premier Tennis and Fitness in Janesville.  Then Sunday we drive to Indiana to play DePauw University in Greencastle, IN for a 5pmEST Sunday night match.  UWW and DePauw are only one spot apart from each other in the national rankings, so we expect this to be a great match!

If you are wondering what the ladies team is up to right now, they are working hard working out, conditioning and doing tennis captains’ practices to get ready for their season.  In just two short weeks they get to start practicing with the coaches again, and their first matches will be on Saturday, March 7.

GO WARHAWKS!!