Box Score
The Dayton men's tennis team opened up its season on Saturday with a 6-1 victory over Toledo. The Flyers got off to a strong start by earning a 1-0 advantage after two victories in doubles play. Seniors
Zach Berry and
Carsten Fisher trailed Danilo Vukotic and Reid Teatsorth by a 4-3 margin before rattling off three straight games to take a 6-4 victory on court one. Freshman Theo Jener and junior
Jordan Benjamin also rallied back from a deficit to earn a victory in No. 2 doubles. The tandem found themselves trailing 5-4, but like Berry and Fisher, they managed to bounce back and win three straight games to take the set, 7-5, including an emphatic smash at the net by Benjamin on the game's deciding point.
Dayton kept the momentum rolling from doubles into singles play, where the Flyers won the first three matches to clinch the match. Junior
Lorenzo Rollhauser won the deciding match for Dayton on court five with a 6-3, 7-6(3) win over Thawin Suksathaporn. Rollhauser's victory was preceded by Benjamin and Berry, who won by scores of 6-0, 1-6, 6-3 and 7-6, 6-3, respectively. Jener and sophomore
Steven Karl also won their singles matches in a pair of 10-point match tiebreakers after the Dayton victory had already been secured.
Dayton will be back in action tomorrow morning, as the Flyers will host IUPUI with matches beginning at 10 am. Look below for full results from today's match:
Results
Doubles
- Fisher/Berry (UD) def. Vukotic/Teatsorth; 6-4
- Benjamin/Jener (UD) def. Anzalone/Vitosevic; 7-5
- Olmedo/Suksathaporn (UT) vs. Rollhauser/Karl; 6-5**
** - Did not finish
Order of finish: 1,2*
Singles
- Jordan Benjamin (UD) def. Luka Vitosevic (UT); 6-0, 1-6, 6-3
- Vince Anzalone (UT) def. Carsten Fisher (UD);6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Zach Berry (UD) def. Reid Teatsorth (UT); 7-6, 6-3
- Theo Jener (UD) def. Danilo Vukotic (UT); 7-6, 6-7, 10-4
- Lorenzo Rollhauser (UD) def. Thawin Suksathaporn (UT); 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Steven Karl (UD) def. Serjen Olmedo (UT); 6-4, 5-7, (10-3)
Order of finish: 1, 3, 5*, 2, 6, 4
What They're Saying
Freshman Theo Jener
On the importance of starting the season strong:
"Coming in as a freshman, it was important to me to get a win in both doubles and singles to give me some confidence, which I can continue to build on later, but it was also important just for the team to get a lot of wins today. Going forward, we just want to keep winning – we have confidence that we can compete and win against everybody on our schedule. We just want to step on the gas and keep going. We have so many talented guys that we have a chance to have a special season."
Junior Lorenzo Rollhauser
On clinching the match and starting off the season with a win:
"I actually didn't know at the time that my match was the clincher, but it felt good to be the one to give us the win once my teammates told me. We were excited coming here for the season opener. With it being the first match of the year, I think we started out a little tight, but I thought the whole team played well and we delivered with a win.
