Cowboy Tennis Falls to Oregon

Saturday, January 29

Austin, Texas

11 a.m.

Oklahoma State University

Oregon

January 29, 2022 | Cowboy Tennis

Austin, Texas - Oklahoma State's men's tennis team opened play at the ITA Kickoff Weekend with a 4-0 loss to Oregon on Saturday afternoon in Austin, Texas.

The Cowboys dipped to 2-2 on the year after the loss.

Doubles play showed it was going to be a closely contested battle the entirety of the match.

Oregon struck first on court one, No. 17 Quinn Vandecasteele and Joshua Charlton defeated Alex Garcia and Tyler Zink, 6-1. The Ducks took the momentum to court two where a close matchup of Sebastian Nothhaft and Max Verboven went the way of Ivailo Keremedchiev and Jesper Klov-Nilsson, 6-3.

With the doubles point decided, court three would go unfinished where OSU's Leighton Allen and Fran Pini had the upper hand against Luke Vandercasteele and Ryoma Matsushita, 5-3.

Despite dropping the doubles point, the Cowboys did not back down in singles play.

Court two was the first to finish. Although knotted a majority of the match, it fell to Oregon's Quinn Vandecasteele against Alex Garcia, 6-2, 6-4, to push the Duck's to 2-0 overall. Max Verboven kept a consistent battle-and-forth battle on court three, but Ivalio Keremedchiev came out on top, 6-3, 6-4. The Ducks sealed the deal on court four, Jesper Klov-Nilsson snagged a 6-4, 6-1 win against Sebastian Nothhaft.

Although left unfinished, Leighton Allen remained dominant on court five against Luke Vandercasteele, 6-4, 5-3.

Like Allen, junior Tyler Zink continued to battle on court one against Joshua Charlton, 5-7, 4-4. Freshman Fran Pini left knotted against Ryoma Matsushita, 6-2, 3-6.

The Cowboys are back in action tomorrow as they take the court against Columbia at 12 p.m.

Order of Finish

ITA Kickoff Weekend

Doubles Play

Order of Finish (1,2)

No. 17 Vandecasteele/Charlton (Oregon) def. Zink/Garcia (OSU) 6-1
Ivailo Keremedchiev/Jesper Klov-Nilsson (Oregon) def. Nothhaft/Verboven (OSU) 6-3
Allen/Pini (OSU) vs Vandecasteele/Matsushita (Oregon) 5-3 unfinished

Singles Play

Order of Finish (2,3,4)