{"id":608332,"date":"2026-04-16T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:30:09","slug":"senior-day-set-as-u-m-hosts-final-regular-season-matches-at-vtc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608332\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Day Set as U-M Hosts Final Regular-Season Matches at VTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Promotions<\/p>\n

April 19

\n\u2022 Senior Day<\/p>\n

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan men’s tennis team (11-9, 6-5 Big Ten) will close out the regular season this weekend with a pair of Big Ten matches at the Varsity Tennis Center. The Wolverines host Purdue (5-15, 1-10 Big Ten) on Friday (April 17) at 6 p.m. before facing Indiana (10-10, 4-7 Big Ten) on Sunday (April 19) at noon on Senior Day. Admission to all matches at the Varsity Tennis Center is free.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/p>\n

\u2022 Michigan will honor Mert Oral<\/a>, Nicholas Steiglehner<\/a> and Bjorn Swenson<\/a> for Senior Day on Sunday, prior to the Indiana match. Fans are encouraged to come early to show their appreciation for the senior trio.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Wolverines enter the weekend on a four-match winning streak, having swept Oregon and Washington on the road before returning home to defeat No. 20 Michigan State and Toledo in a doubleheader.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Swenson delivered a three-set win over then-No. 14 Matthew Forbes at No. 2 singles to clinch the victory against Michigan State and hand the Spartans their first conference loss of the season. After dropping the first set 6-1, Swenson rallied to take the second 6-3 before closing out the match 6-3 in the third.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Michigan is 11-9 overall with a 6-5 Big Ten record, sitting seventh in the conference standings. The Wolverines moved up to No. 39 in the latest ITA computerized rankings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Max Dahlin<\/a> owns the longest singles unbeaten streak in the nation, at 14 straight. He is 16-1 at No. 1 singles, unbeaten at 9-0 in the Big Ten,\u00a0and 25-3 when combining his fall and spring seasons. Dahlin moved up to No. 6 in the ITA rankings this week.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Swenson moved up to No. 45 in the singles rankings, the highest ranking of his season. He’s on a four-match win streak and is 9-3 at No. 2 and is 17-7 this season.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Michigan has two ranked doubles pairs, of which Dahlin is a member of both. He and fellow All-American Swenson are ranked No. 21 after reaching the NCAA quarterfinals in the fall. This spring, Dahlin and fellow freshman Pierce Shaya<\/a> are 8-3 at No. 1 and sit at No. 52 in the rankings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steiglehner enters the weekend on a four-match winning streak and is four wins away from reaching 60 career victories.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Purdue is 5-15 overall and sits last in the Big Ten at 1-10. The Boilermakers feature one ranked doubles team in Aleksa Krivokapic and Maj Premzel (No. 58). Michigan has won 22 straight matches against Purdue and leads the all-time series 81-10.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Indiana enters the week 10-10 overall and ninth in the Big Ten at 4-7. The Hoosiers have four ranked doubles teams: Matteo Antonescu\/Michael Andrea (No. 39), Jip Van Assendelft\/Sam Landau (No. 44), Sam Landau\/Braeden Gelletich (No. 54), and Facundo Yunis\/Sam Landau (No. 82). Michigan has won 12 straight meetings and leads the all-time series 76-16-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promotions April 19 \u2022 Senior Day ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan men’s tennis team (11-9,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-608332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608332","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=608332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}