College Station, Texas \u2013 No. 1 Texas Men’s Tennis moved on to the SEC Championship final for the second-straight year, earning a 4-2 win over 5 seed No. 10 Texas A&M in College Station on Saturday. The Longhorns will next face 2 seed No. 6 Mississippi State on Sunday at 12 p.m. CT with an opportunity to secure a second-straight SEC Championship title.<\/p>\n
It is the third time the Longhorns have defeated the Aggies this season, all by the same 4-2 score, including once in the ITA National Indoors round of 16 in Waco on February 13, and once in the regular season meeting in Austin on March 13. It also marks the 10th-straight win in the series for Texas.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns produced a strong doubles point with solid wins at Nos. 3 and 2. After Texas A&M posted singles wins at Nos. 3 and 2, Texas ran off three-straight victories by senior Jonah Braswell<\/a> at No. 6, freshman No. 93 Abel Forger<\/a> at No. 5, and senior No. 3 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> at No. 1 for the clinch.<\/p>\n During doubles, the No. 40 duo of sophomore Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> and Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> notched an efficient 6-1 win over Lathan Skrobarcek and Markus Molder at No. 3. The No. 24 pair of Gorzny and freshman Lucas Marionneau<\/a> then clinched the point with a 6-3 victory over Alex Frusina and Kholo Montsi at No. 2. That left one match unfinished where freshmen Kalin Ivanovski<\/a> and Abel Forger<\/a> were trailing but on serve against No. 5 Theo Papamalamis and Togan Tokac, 3-4, at No. 1.<\/p>\n Frusina and Montsi then began singles with a pair of wins to give the Aggies a 2-1 overall lead. No. 46 Eriksson fell to No. 100 Frusina, 6-3, 6-2, at No. 3, while No. 34 Ivanovski was downed by No. 41 Montsi, 7-6 (3), 6-1, at No. 2.<\/p>\n However, Braswell, who had earlier match points, almost immediately knotted it at 2-2 with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Skrobarcek at No. 6. The last two matches went to three sets with Forger getting home first with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 win over Tokac at No. 5 for a 3-2 lead. Gorzny then came through with the clinch after recovering from coming up just short in his first set for a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 top-10 win over No. 10 Papamalamis at No. 1.<\/p>\n Only one match remained after that, in which Ojakaar was behind Molder, a fellow Estonian, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 1-4, at No. 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n #1 Texas 4, #10 Texas A&M 2<\/p>\n Singles \u2013 Order of Finish (3,2,6,5,1) Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (3,2) Individual Match Key Moments Doubles No. 3: Eriksson\/Ojakaar (TEX) def. Skrobarcek\/Molder (TAMU) 6-1 Doubles No. 2: Gorzny\/Marionneau (TEX) def. Frusina\/Montsi (TAMU) 6-3 Doubles No. 1: Forger\/Ivanovski (TEX) vs. Papamalamis\/Tokac (TAMU) 3-4, unf. Singles No. 3: Frusina (TAMU) def. Eriksson (TEX) 6-3, 6-2 Singles No. 2: Montsi (TAMU) def. Ivanovski (TEX) 7-6 (3), 6-1 Singles No. 6: Braswell (TEX) def. Skrobarcek (TAMU) 6-2, 6-3 Singles No. 5: Forger (TEX) def. Tokac (TAMU) 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 Singles No.1: Gorzny (TEX) def. Papamalamis (TAMU) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 Singles No. 4: Ojakaar (TEX) vs. Molder (TAMU) 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 1-4, unf.
\n1. #3 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) def. #10 Theo Papamalamis (TAMU) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
\n2. #41 Kholo Montsi (TAMU) def. #34 Kalin Ivanovski<\/a> (TEX) 7-6 (3), 6-1
\n3. #100 Alex Frusina (TAMU) def. #46 Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) 6-3, 6-2
\n4. Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> (TEX) vs. Markus Molder (TAMU) 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 1-4, unf.
\n5. #93 Abel Forger<\/a> (TEX) def. Togan Tokac (TAMU) 6-2, 1-6, 6-3
\n6. Jonah Braswell<\/a> (TEX) def. Lathan Skrobarcek (TAMU) 6-2, 6-3<\/p>\n
\n1. Abel Forger<\/a>\/Kalin Ivanovski<\/a> (TEX) vs. #5 Theo Papamalamis\/Togan Tokac (TAMU) 3-4, unf.
\n2. #24 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a>\/Lucas Marionneau<\/a> (TEX) def. Alex Frusina\/Kholo Montsi (TAMU) 6-3
\n3. #40 Sebastian Eriksson<\/a>\/Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> (TEX) def. Lathan Skrobarcek\/Markus Molder (TAMU) 6-1<\/p>\n
\n(by order of finish)<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0Texas started 3-0 with a deuce-point break in the second game. After Texas A&M held at deuce for 3-0, the Longhorns also closed 3-0 on another deuce-point break for 5-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0Texas A&M held its first two service games at deuce for a 2-1 lead, and after the Aggies extended to 3-2, Texas went on a 4-0 run to the finish, capped by a deuce-point break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nMatch:\u00a0The match was on serve until play stopped.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Frusina earned the only break, doing so at deuce for 3-1, and then consolidated at deuce for 4-1.
\nSet Two:\u00a0After Eriksson held to start, Frusina again won consecutive deuce points to hold and break for a 2-1 lead. He later broke again at deuce for 5-2 before serving out.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Montsi broke at deuce in the opening game and later broke again for 5-2, however Ivanovski went on a 4-0 run for a 6-5 lead, including a deuce-point break for 5-5. Montsi then held for the tiebreaker.\u00a0
\nSet One Tiebreaker:\u00a0Montsi took a 4-0 lead on the way to a 7-3 win.\u00a0
\nSet Two:\u00a0Montsi held on a deuce point in the first game to start a 5-0 run before winning, 6-1.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Braswell captured the only two breaks for 3-1 and 6-2.\u00a0
\nSet Two:\u00a0Braswell used two deuce-point breaks for a 5-0 start. Skrobarcek won the next three games, including a deuce-point break, but Braswell served out at deuce for the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Tokac held at deuce in the opening game, but Forger won the next three, capped by a deuce-point hold for 3-1. The next two games were also held at deuce before Forger broke for 5-2 and held at deuce again for 6-2.\u00a0\u00a0
\nSet Two:\u00a0Tokac opened on a 4-0 run, capped by a deuce-point break. Forger broke back at deuce for 4-1, but Tokac broke again and held for 6-1.
\nSet Three:\u00a0Forger captured the only break for 5-3 and then served out the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Gorzny won consecutive deuce points to break first and hold for 4-2. However, Papamalamis to the break back for 4-4 and broke again for 7-5.
\nSet Two:\u00a0Gorzny again won consecutive deuce points for what would be the only break of the set and then a hold for 4-2. Papamalamis also held at deuce to trail 4-3 and 5-4.
\nSet Three:\u00a0Gorzny broke first for a 2-1 lead, and although Papamalamis broke back at deuce, Gorzny broke again for 3-2 which he maintained until he broke again at deuce for 6-3 and the match.<\/p>\n
\nSet One:\u00a0Molder used a 3-0 run with two deuce point holds to go from 2-2 to a 5-2 lead. Ojakaar got the break back for 5-4 but Molder broke again for 6-4.\u00a0
\nSet Two:\u00a0Molder held to start and the players exchanged four straight breaks with the first two at deuce, until Ojakaar held at deuce for 3-3. The rest of the set was then on serve until a tiebreaker.
\nSet Two Tiebreaker:\u00a0Ojakaar jumped out to a 5-0 lead on the way to a 7-2 win.
\nSet Three:\u00a0Ojakaar held in the first game, but Molder went on a 4-0 run before play stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College Station, Texas \u2013 No. 1 Texas Men’s Tennis moved on to the SEC Championship final for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-613826","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\/613826","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=613826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}