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Walsh WALSH (6-4)
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Winner Wayne State WSUM (4-4)
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Wayne State WSUM
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Emil Mikkelsen vs. Walsh (02/24/2024)
Marissa Krynak
Emil Mikkelsen won his second singles match of the spring campaign on Saturday vs. Walsh.

Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Matthew Jurek, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Men's Tennis Snaps Four-Match Skid With 7-0 Shutout of Walsh

WSU returned home for the first time since the season-opener on February 1.

DETROIT -- The Wayne State University men's tennis team (4-4 overall) snapped its four-match losing streak on Saturday afternoon with a 7-0 shutout of visiting Walsh (6-4 overall) inside the Duchene Athletic Facility.

DOUBLES
Wayne State started its afternoon on a high note by collecting three wins in doubles action against the Cavaliers.

WSU's dynamic doubles tandem of Cedric Drenth (Sulzbach, Germany) and Daniel Grey (Wiesbaden, Germany) registered a 6-4 win over Philip Peter Carstensen and Ethan Milgan at the first flight.

The Green and Gold's second nationally ranked doubles team of Luke Laws (Sunderland, England) and Dom Spicer (London, England) were also victorious.  The No. 13-ranked pairing downed Niklas Nordahl Jensen and Fedor Kuznetsov 6-0 for the shutout win.

In a new doubles duo at the No. 3 spot, Emil Mikkelsen (Soenderborg, Denmark) and Denali Kitayama (West Bloomfield Township, Mich. / Walled Lake Central (United States Air Force Academy)) performed impressively, as they defeated Lukas Kohler and Ben Hoffmann by a score of 6-3.

Kitayama was playing in his first doubles match of 2023-24 in either the fall or spring slates.

SINGLES
The Green and Gold finished the clean sweep of Walsh with all six singles matches.

Grey defeated Nordahl Jensen 6-1, 6-4 at the first flight, while Drenth handled Luis Ceballos Hernandez by matching 6-3 set scores at the No. 2 position.

Spicer and Carstensen participated in a hard-fought battle at the third spot, with the Warrior winning the first set 6-4 and the Cavalier claiming the second, 6-3.  The two played to a unique 10-point tiebreaking set, and the graduate student Spicer emerged with the 10-4 triumph.

The final three matches were all similar in their final scores, with each needing a tiebreaker in the first set before defeating their opponent 6-2 in the second.

Kitayama pushed through for a 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 win vs. Joan Dasi at the No. 4 position, with Mikkelsen obtaining a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 victory over Milgan at the sixth flight.

After not participating in doubles, freshman Benjamin Hill (Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) handled Kohler 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 at the No. 5 spot to complete the shutout effort for Wayne State.

UP NEXT
WSU will remain on home court for two more matches, beginning Friday, March 1, vs. Hillsdale College.  It will be a doubleheader inside the Duchene Athletic Facility with the women's tennis program.  The men's squad will battle the Chargers at 6 p.m., following the women's contest at 1:30 p.m.

 
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