University of Minnesota Athletics

MEN'S TENNIS TEAM DEFEATS #62 KANSAS 5-2

2/16/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

Saturday The 37th-ranked University of Minnesota men's tennis team defeated 62nd-ranked Kansas 5-2 at the 98th Street Racquet Club in Bloomington, Minn. The Golden Gophers will host Penn at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning and Indiana at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening.

Minnesota captured five of the six singles matches as Harsh Mankad, Jorge Duenas, Aleksey Zharinov, Jon Svensson and Eric Robertson all posted victories. Kansas captured the doubles point with two victories. Robertson and Chris Wettengel captured the Golden Gophers' lone victory at No. 3 doubles.

MINNESOTA 5, KANSAS 2

Singles
No. 1 - Harsh Mankad (UM) def. Rodrigo Echagaray (KU), 6-3, 6-3
No. 2 - Jorge Duenas (UM) def. Eleazar Magallan (KU), 7-6, 7-6
No. 3 - Quentin Blakeney (KU) def. Chris Wettengel (UM), 6-3, 6-4
No. 4 - Aleksey Zharinov (UM) def. Pete Stroer (KU), 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
No. 5 - Jon Svensson (UM) def. Alex Barragan (KU), 6-0, 6-1
No. 6 - Eric Robertson (UM) def. Andrew Metzler (KU), 7-6, 7-6

Doubles
No. 1 - Echagaray/Magallan (KU) def. Tyson Parry/Zharinov, 8-4
No. 2 - Stroer/Blakeney (KU) def. Karl Sloss/Mankad, 8-4
No. 3 - Robertson/Wettengel (UM) def. Barragan/Metzler, 8-6

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