The Warhawk Men’s Tennis team headed to Green Bay to take on a couple of scholarship programs on Sunday. Plans were to play D-1 UW-Green Bay followed by NAIA Cardinal Stritch. These were both rematches from last year, as the Warhawks lost to GB but beat CSU in 2014. Unfortunately this weekend, we were only able to play UWGB, because of the snow storm that hit Milwaukee overnight Saturday through Sunday. CSU got snowed in and could not make it out of town.
Therefore we put all our efforts into the UWGB match-up. UWGB’s lineup is heavily loaded with foreign players with tons of ITF tournament experience, so we knew we’d have our hands full.
In doubles, we lost all three matches 6-3, 6-3, and 6-2 respectively at the 1,2 and 3 lines. At both #1 and #2 Shklyar/Treis and Humphreys/Laktash were on serve most of the match until being broken. From that point it was more holds of serve, but the Warhawks were never able to get the break back at either position. At #3 Butler/Beck each got broken to start the match, but then held serve throughout the rest of the match, but could not dent their opponent’s serve. D-1 has different scoring rules. They play service lets live, they use no-ad scoring, they only play doubles pro-sets to 6, and they only award one point for doubles-granted to the team that wins at least two of the three doubles matches. Therefore we were down 0-1 heading into singles.
In singles we had several close sets, then GB took control of most of the matches in the second sets, and the Phoenix were eventually able to take each match to secure the 7-0 sweep. I was encouraged with each of the Warhawks play as they made their opponents really work for each point. Treis and Navratil were each serving for their first sets leading 5-4 before their opponents clamped down when needed. Laktash was only broken once in his first set. Shklyar came back from an 0-5 deficit playing well to get back in the match 3-5 before losing his first set, Raman was on serve much of his first set, and Humphreys had many highlight points at the top spot against a terrific player. To see all the individual scores for the UWW vs UWGB match go to: http://www.uwwsports.com/news/2015/2/1/MTEN_0201152353.aspx
What’s next? The men host UW-Oshkosh(noon) and Lake Forest(6pm) on Saturday, Feb 7th. Please note we are not at our usual location for home matchs at PTF. Instead we will be hosting both of these matches at Four Lakes Athletic Club in Elkhorn, WI (351 E Morrissey Dr).
Please come out and enjoy the tennis!
GO WARHAWKS!!
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