No. 23 Ducks Set to Host No. 12 Cal, No. 15 Stanford

Friday, April 14

Eugene, OR

3:00 PM

University of Oregon

California

Photo by: Eric Evans/GoDucks.com

No. 23 Ducks Set to Host No. 12 Cal, No. 15 Stanford

04/13/17 | Men's Tennis

MTen Notes - Cal & Stanford

NO. 23 OREGON WILL TRY TO BUILD ON AN ALREADY TERRIFIC SEASON THIS WEEKEND AS THE DUCKS WELCOME NO. 12 CALIFORNIA (FRIDAY, 3PM) AND NO. 15 STANFORD (SUNDAY, 12PM) TO THE STUDENT TENNIS CETNER

By: Nate Krueger

MATCH 21 - #23 OREGON (16-4, 2-2) vs #12 CALIFORNIA (15-6, 2-1)
Friday, April 14 | 3:00 p.m.
Eugene, Ore. | Student Tennis Center
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MATCH 22 - #23 OREGON (16-4, 2-2) vs #15 STANFORD (13-5, 3-1)
Sunday, April 16 | 12:00 p.m.
Eugene, Ore. | Student Tennis Center
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WEEKLY INTERVIEWS
Nils Schyllander, Head Coach

Simon Stevens, Junior

THIS WEEK
The 23rd-ranked Ducks return home this week for a pair of huge conference matches at the Student Tennis Center. Oregon (16-4, 2-2 Pac-12) will host No. 12 California (15-6, 2-1 Pac-12) on Friday at 3 p.m. before welcoming No. 15 Stanford (13-5, 3-1 Pac-12) for a noon match on Sunday. With only three matches remaining in the regular season, the Ducks will try to build on what has been a terrific spring season and secure good positioning in both the Pac-12 and NCAA tournaments. Oregon enters the weekend with a perfect 8-0 record at home this season.

HOW TO FOLLOW
Weather will determine if the Ducks' two matches will be featured on live streams this weekend. If the matches are played outdoors, there will be no live streams. If the matches are played indoors inside the Student Tennis Center, then there will be live streams for all six courts with links available on goducks.com. Links to live results for both matches are available on the men's tennis schedule on goducks.com. Updates will be provided during matches on Twitter via @OregonMTennis.

AMOS BECOMES UO ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
With a 7-5, 6-3 win over Arizona's Shoki Kasahara last Sunday, senior Jayson Amos became Oregon's all-time singles wins leader with the 91st victory of his career, surpassing Robin Cambier (2009-12). His all-time singles record now sits at 91-32, and his .740 winning percentage is the best of any player on the top-15 wins list. Amos' season singles record sits at 18-9, putting him two wins away from winning at least 20 matches in all four seasons as a Duck. The native of Mission Viejo, Calif., is also one of only two players in UO history to have three straight seasons of at least 22 singles wins, joining Cambier, and fell just one singles win short of the all-time single-season record with a 28-6 mark last year. In doubles, Amos is fourth in UO history with 66 career wins.

THOMAS LAURENT - SPECTACULAR SOPHOMORE
Sophomore Thomas Laurent has enjoyed an absolutely stellar season thus far for the Ducks. Laurent is 27-3 (.900) in 2016-17, tying Swen Swinnen (2004-05) for the most single-season wins in UO history. In dual matches, the Montpellier, France, native is an astounding 17-1 while playing every match at the No. 1 singles spot. Laurent won his first 18 singles matches of the spring to destroy the previous UO record for consecutive singles matches won of 15. Laurent broke the mark previously set by Simon Stevens (2015) and Robin Cambier (2012) with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Nicolas Moreno de Alboran of UC Santa Barbara on March 5, earning Pac-12 Player of the Week honors in the process, and added two more in UO wins over SDSU and Iowa in the SD Invite to extend his record. His incredible run came to an end with a loss to 38th-ranked Constantin Schmitz of then-No. 30 Tulane in the finals of the SD Invite. For his career, Laurent is 46-9 (.836) overall, 36-7 (.837) in dual matches and an astounding 21-1 (.955) at the top singles spot.

DUCKS SWEEP UTAH AND ARIZONA ON THE ROAD
The Ducks wrapped up their regular-season road schedule with a pair of wins at Utah and Arizona last weekend. Oregon will close the regular season with a 4-4 record on the road and a 4-0 record in neutral-site matches entering this final three-match homestand.

April 7 - #25 Oregon 4, Utah 0
The Ducks rebounded from losing the doubles point in their last two matches to take the opening point from the Utes. In singles, junior Simon Stevens snapped a three-match losing streak to stake the Ducks to a 2-0 lead. Stevens took down Utah's Dan Little, 6-3, 6-4, at the No. 2 spot for the first singles win of the day for Oregon. Thomas Laurent, coming off a win over the No. 11 player in the country, made it 3-0, Ducks, with a 6-2, 6-4 win over David Micevski. Junior Akihiro Tanaka clinched the match for Oregon on the third court, beating Santiago Sierra (Utah), 7-5, 6-4, to seal the win.

April 9 - #25 Oregon 4, Arizona 1
Oregon once again jumped out to a 1-0 lead with a win in the doubles point. Arizona tied the match to start singles with a win over Cormac Clissold at No. 5, 6-3, 6-4. Jayson Amos then cemented his place in program history with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Shoki Kasahara, becoming UO's all-time wins leader with the 91st of his career. Laurent made it 3-1, Ducks, with a milestone win of his own, defeating Shoti Meparidze at No. 1, 6-4, 6-3, to tie the UO single-season record with his 27th singles win of the year. Junior Simon Stevens clinched the match and the win for the Ducks on the No. 2 court, defeating Will Kneale in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5.

CLISSOLD & LAURENT SHINING IN DOUBLES
The duo of Thomas Laurent and Cormac Clissold has been as steady as they come since the two teamed up for the first time in 2016. The pair is now 34-6 (.850) all-time together, putting them in fourth on the Oregon all-time doubles list. The duo is 19-5 together this season and 14-4 in dual matches, and they set the program single-season record last year with 15 consecutive wins. The pair of Jayson Amos and Armando Soemarno is right behind with an all-time record of 25-6 (.806), good for 11th on the UO all-time list.

IN THE RANKINGS
After slotting in at No. 23 in the latest ITA team rankings, the Ducks have now appeared in the top 25 in eight consecutive weeks and have reached as high as No. 21. Thomas Laurent continues to climb up the national singles rankings, coming at No. 26 in the latest rankings.

SCHYLLANDER EARNS WIN NO. 200
Nils Schyllander reached a significant milestone with a 4-0 win over Fresno State on February 9. The win marked the 200th of Schyllander's career, with all 200 coming at the University of Oregon. Now in his 11th season at the helm of the Oregon men's tennis program, Schyllander has elevated the Ducks to a new level of success and now sits at 211 career wins. Since the Pac-10 became the Pac-12 in 2011, Schyllander's teams have gone 100-45 (.679), and have won at least 15 matches each season since 2012. The Ducks took fifth in the Pac-12 last year for the second straight year, and earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three seasons. Oregon now looks to build on last year's first-ever NCAA Tournament win as it returns six of its seven top contributors from last season's team.