Urbana, Ill.- The University of Washington Men’s Tennis Team closed its opening Big Ten slate this morning with a 4-0 loss against the No. 11 University of Illinois Fighting Illini. Washington is now (6-8) on the season and (0-2) in Big Ten play, as the Huskies return to Montlake next weekend with matches Friday, March 13th, against Purdue and Sunday, March 15th, against Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After dropping the doubles point, the Huskies opened singles play, taking early leads in all matches. With Soham Purohit<\/a> and Brett Pearson<\/a> leading the charge, as both closed their first sets with 7-6 tiebreak losses. Rounding out the first set Rohan Belday<\/a>, Stephane Kamendje<\/a>, and Hyeonseok Seo<\/a> would close the set with back-and-forth losses.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Illini would go to close out the match in the second set with the Huskies dropping three straight, leaving Soham, Brett, and Hyeonseok unfinished in their matches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Up Next Washington Men’s Tennis #11 Illinois – 4 Doubles\u00a0 Singles\u00a0 Match Notes (Prior to Match): For news, scores, highlights and more, download the Go Huskies app on your mobile device. Follow @UW_MTennis on Instagram, X, Threads, Facebook, and TikTok and subscribe to UW Athletics on YouTube for the latest on the Dawgs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Urbana, Ill.- The University of Washington Men’s Tennis Team closed its opening Big Ten slate this morning with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-527637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWashington returns to play next weekend back in Seattle. The Huskies will host Purdue on Friday, March 13th at 5 pm and Indiana on Sunday, March 15th at noon from the Nordstrom Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
\nMarch 8, 2026
\nUrbana, Ill. |\u00a0 Atkins Tennis Center | 10:00 AM PT<\/p>\n
\nWashington – 0<\/p>\n
\n1. #58 Soham Purohit<\/a>\/Brett Pearson<\/a> (UW) vs. Debru\/Bowers (UI)\u00a0 – 5-4 (DNF)
\n2. Mroz\/Jones (UI) def. Daniel Bien<\/a>\/Nikola Plavsic<\/a> (UW) – 6-2
\n3. Viiala\/Colleu (UI) def. Rohan Belday<\/a>\/Stephane Kamendje<\/a> (UW) – 6-3\u00a0
\nOrder of Finish: (2, 3)<\/p>\n
\n1. Soham Purohit<\/a> (UW) vs.#26 Gabriel Debru (UI) – 7-6(3), 3-2 (DNF)
\n2.#70 Will Mroz (UI) def. Stephane Kamendje<\/a> (UW) – 6-4, 6-4
\n3. Sasha Colleu (UI) def. Rohan Belday<\/a> (UW) – 7-5, 6-1
\n4. Brett Pearson<\/a> (UW) vs. Hayden Jones (UI)\u00a0 – 7-6 (4), 4-3 (DNF)
\n5. Hyeonseok Seo<\/a> (UW) vs. Zach Viiala (UI) – 6-4, 4-3 (DNF)
\n6. Jeremy Zhang (UI) def. Daniel Bien<\/a> (UW) – 6-2, 6-3
\nOrder of Finish: (6, 2, 3)<\/p>\n
\nWashington 6-7
\n#11 Illinois 11-3\u00a0
\nAll-time record: UI leads 6-1<\/p>\n