{"id":477955,"date":"2026-02-16T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:58:08","slug":"mens-tennis-drops-neutral-site-match-to-arkansas-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477955\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Drops Neutral Site Match to Arkansas, 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

LINCOLN, Neb. \u2013\u00a0A tight battle early, opened up down the stretch as the Creighton Men’s Tennis team dropped a 5-0 decision to Arkansas on Sunday night at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center in Lincoln, Neb.\u00a0
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\nThe loss moves the Bluejays to 6-5 on the year, while the Razorbacks improved to 9-2 with the win.\u00a0
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\nArkansas opened the night by earning a tight hard-fought doubles point. The Razorbacks picked up a 6-2 win at the No. 2 doubles position to take an early advantage. The Bluejays answered with a win at the No. 3 doubles spot as Zachary Kuo<\/a> and Mathis Dahler<\/a> teamed up for a 6-4 win over Lukas Palovic and Gabriel Elicha Navas to force a winner-take-all on court No. 1.\u00a0
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\nAt the top doubles position, Creighton’s Yuma Daijima<\/a>\u00a0and Kirtan Patel<\/a> tied the match at 5-5, but Arkansas’ Eric\u00a0Padgham\u00a0and Ben Weintraub won the final two games to claim a 7-5 win and give the Razorbacks a 1-0 edge in the match.\u00a0
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\nThe two teams continued to battle back-and-forth throughout singles play, but it was Arkansas that secured straight set wins on the top four singles courts to clinch the overall dual.<\/p>\n

Palovic captured a 6-3, 6-3 win over Patel at the top singles position, while Elicha Navas picked up a 6-2, 6-3 straight sets win over Rocky McKenzie<\/a> on the No. 3 singles court to grab a 3-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Arkansas’ Elicha Navas followed with a match clinching 6-0, 7-5 victory over\u00a0Daijima\u00a0on the No. 2 singles court, before Dmitry Kopilevich closed out the 5-0 victory with a 6-2, 7-6 win over Kuo at the No. 4 singles position.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Bluejays are back in action for a Doubleheader on Thursday, Feb. 19 when they battle Saint Louis at 12 p.m. before taking on Northwest Missouri State at 7 p.m. at the Hanscom Tennis Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN, Neb. \u2013\u00a0A tight battle early, opened up down the stretch as the Creighton Men’s Tennis team dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-477955","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\/477955","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=477955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}