{"id":418970,"date":"2026-01-19T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:43:09","slug":"cats-sweep-youngstown-state-to-close-out-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418970\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cats Sweep Youngstown State to Close Out Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern men’s tennis (1-2) defeated Youngstown State in a 4-0 sweep on Sunday evening to close out a weekend of action at Combe Tennis Center. The victory came after the ‘Cats fought hard, but fell to both Vanderbilt, 6-1, and Louisville, 4-1, earlier on in the weekend.<\/p>\n

To open action against the Penguins (1-1), the ‘Cats came out dominant in doubles play. The duo of Greyson Casey<\/a> and Carter Pate<\/a> wrapped up a quick 6-1 victory at the No. 1 position, and were followed in short order by Ethan Schiffman<\/a> and Cooper Han<\/a>, who clinched the doubles point with a 6-2 win at No. 3.<\/p>\n

With the lead in hand, Northwestern continued to roll in singles play. The ‘Cats won first sets on four of six courts, including a decisive 6-1 opening set for Pate. He then finished off his second singles win of the weekend with a 7-5 second set to put the ‘Cats up 2-0.<\/p>\n

Pate was followed by Schiffman, who also won in straight sets. His 6-3, 6-4 victory was good for the first of his Wildcat career. From there, Casey provided the final blow for Northwestern, winning a 6-3, 6-4 match to clinch the 4-0 team victory.<\/p>\n

Despite losses in the earlier matches, the Wildcats got a pair of stand-out performances from Pate and junior transfer Cyrus Mahjoob<\/a>, who both upset ranked opponents in singles action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Against Vanderbilt (3-0), Pate came out on top of an incredibly tight battle with No. 62 Pablo Martinez Gomez at No. 1 singles. The match was neck-and-neck all the way through, beginning with a first-set tiebreak that narrowly went Pate’s way, 8-6. After dropping the second set 3-6, Pate battled back to another tiebreak game in the third set. Once again, he came out on top, defeating Martinez Gomez 7-2 in the tiebreak to finish off the first ranked victory of his collegiate career, as well as his first career victory at the No. 1 position.<\/p>\n

Mahjoob’s\u00a0upset came in the first half of Sunday’s doubleheader, as the ‘Cats took on Louisville (4-1). Facing No. 122 Hamza El Amine, Mahjoob got the job done in straight sets, winning 6-4, 6-4 to secure his first win as a Wildcat.<\/p>\n

With the first weekend of play behind them, the ‘Cats will remain home to host IU Indy and Cleveland State in a doubleheader at Combe Tennis Center next Saturday, Jan. 24. The morning match is set to begin at 10 a.m. CT, with the second contest to follow at 5:30 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern men’s tennis (1-2) defeated Youngstown State in a 4-0 sweep on Sunday evening to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-418970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}