University of Oregon
Fresno State
Ducks Dominate in Clean Sweep of Fresno State
03/12/16 | Men's Tennis
EUGENE – The 20th-ranked Oregon men's tennis team dominated Saturday's 7-0 sweep over Fresno State to pick up its ninth straight win.
How It Happened: The Ducks earned their eighth consecutive doubles point with wins on courts two and three. Daan Maasland and Simon Stevens tallied the first triumph of the day with a 6-2 victory over Patrik Pech and Jakob Keppelmann on No. 2. With the win, the Duck duo moved to 17-5 overall on the year and 12-2 in dual action.
Oregon's Cormac Clissold and Thomas Laurent clinched the point for the Ducks with a 6-1 win over Fresno State's Nikolas Papic and Youssef Hassan in the third spot. The win was Clissold and Laurent's seventh straight.
The Ducks carried their strong play into singles, not dropping a set to quickly finish off the Bulldogs.
Jayson Amos scored the first singles point for Oregon in a 6-0, 6-1 drubbing of Nikolas Papic on No. 3 to claim his team-high ninth straight win. Simon Stevens put the Bulldogs' backs against the wall with a 6-2, 6-1 win on court three to stretch the Oregon lead to 3-0.
Bartosz Sawicki, a late addition to the Duck lineup, clinched the match for Oregon on No. 6. After taking the match's first set, 6-2, over Patrik Pech, Sawicki fell down, 4-1, in the second set. The senior stormed back, however, winning the next five games to take the match and seal up Oregon's 13th win of the season.
Shortly after Sawicki finished up, Thomas Laurent tallied a 6-1, 6-3 win in the second singles position to build on Oregon's lead. 70th-ranked Daan Maasland won a second-set-deciding tiebreaker, 7-4, on No. 1 to wrap up his match in the top singles spot.
Cormac Clissold finished off the sweep for the Ducks, winning two tiebreakers to hold off Youssef Hassan, 7-6(5), 7-6(2) on No. 5.
Up Next: Oregon will head back out on the road to face Drake in Des Moines, Iowa on March 22.
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