{"id":145208,"date":"2026-01-31T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:45:11","slug":"huskers-fire-past-texas-tech-university-of-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145208\/","title":{"rendered":"Huskers Fire Past Texas Tech – University of Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska men\u2019s tennis defeated Texas Tech, 4-3, on Friday, Jan. 30 at the Mcleod Tennis Center in Lubbock, Texas. With the win, NU improved to 5-0 this spring.<\/p>\n

In doubles play, the Huskers battled it out to take the doubles point from the Red Raiders (1-2). Leo Linquet<\/a>\/Joan Torres Espinosa<\/a> (NEB) defeated Sebastian Abboud\/Thomas VanDen Dooren (TTU), 6-2. At No. 1 doubles, Matt Shearer<\/a>\/Nikolay Sysoev<\/a> (NEB) fell to Thiago Guglieri\/Niksa Arsic (TTU), 4-6 to even the doubles matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At No. 3 doubles, Jeri Lassila<\/a>\/Colson Wells<\/a> (NEB) battled it out to take the match vs. Felipe Pagnacco\/Ludovico Vaccari (TTU), 6-4 and secure the doubles point for the Huskers. Nebraska led 1-0 going into singles play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In singles play, Nebraska continued to fight going back-and-forth. Sysoev dropped his match on court one 3-6, 2-6 to Arsic to tie the overall match up 1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Immediately after the conclusion of that match Wells answered right back taking his match 6-3, 6-2 in Nebraska\u2019s favor vs. VanDen Dooren. But Texas Tech would have an answer winning back-to-back matches on court five and six. On court five, Niels Van der Sijs<\/a> dropped his match 6-7 [5-7], 2-6 against Abboud. Espinosa dropped his match on court six vs. Guglieri, 6-4, 6-7 [5-7] to give Texas Tech the 3-2 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Linquet and Lassila stood alone on court two and three, seeing who would take the overall match with Texas Tech up 3-2 on Nebraska. Lassila was the first to finish his match beating Pagnacco in three sets, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 to continue his undefeated spring season streak and bring the Huskers back tied with the Red Raiders, 3-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The spotlight stuck with Linquet as he was the last match left on court two. Once again the senior came up clutch, winning his match 6-2, 6-7 [5-7], 7-5 against Vaccari and walking it off for Nebraska as the Huskers defeated Texas Tech on the road, 4-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UP NEXT:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nebraska will come back home to take on Air Force (1-0) on Sunday, Feb 1 at 10 a.m. (CT) at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center in Lincoln. The Huskers are now looking at a five match homestand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Home duals will be hosted at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center, where parking and admission are free. Concessions will be available with no outside food or drink allowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Live stats and stream will be available on huskers.com, as well as updates on Twitter\/X @HuskerMTennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nebraska men\u2019s tennis defeated Texas Tech, 4-3, on Friday, Jan. 30 at the Mcleod Tennis Center in Lubbock,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13845,13843,1924,776,13844,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-145208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-big-ten","tag-huskers","tag-nebraska","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-nu","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}