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Gophers Improve to 3-3, Down DePaul 5-2
2/12/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Feb. 12, 2012
The Minnesota men's tennis team stayed perfect at home with a 5-2 win over DePaul on Sunday afternoon. The Gophers improved to 3-3 on the season after losing three straight matches against highly-ranked opponents and recorded their second win of the weekend after taking down No. 61 Arizona 7-0 on Saturday.
For the third straight match, Minnesota took a 1-0 lead by wining the doubles point.
Freshman Leandro Toledo and sophomore Juan Pablo Ramirez got things started by beating DU's Matija Palinic Aaron Chaffee 8-4. Jack Hamburg and Phillip Arndt clinched the point by downing Mathias Hambach and Sven Kasper in a tiebreaker at No. 2, finishing with a 9-8 (5) score.
The No. 50-ranked duo of Rok Bonin and Julian Dehn also won in a tiebreaker, winning its fifth straight match to start the season, 9-8 (2).
In singles play, Dehn kept the Gophers' run going by winning in straight sets over Hambach, 6-1, 6-1. Hamburg used his second career dual match singles victory to put Minnesota on the brink of winning with a 6-1, 6-0 triumph at No. 6.
Bonin finished off the Blue Demons at the third position, dispatching Kasper 6-4, 6-1. He now leads the team in singles wins on the spring season with four.
Toledo became the 10th straight Gopher to win in straight sets on the weekend with a win at No. 2 to make it 5-0 before DePaul closed out the match with match tiebreaker wins at the first and fifth positions.
The Gophers are now 2-0 against DU all-time after sweeping the Blue Demons in 2009.
After a week off next week, Minnesota will open Big Ten play by hosting Border Battle rival Wisconsin on Feb. 25.
Feb. 12, 2012
Baseline Tennis Center (Minneapolis, Minn.)
No. 34 Minnesota 5, DePaul 2
Singles Competition:
1. Filip Dzanko (DEP) def. Phillip Arndt (MINN) 6-7 (5), 6-2, 1-0 (5)
2. No. 118 Leandro Toledo (MINN) def. George Chanturia (DEP) 6-4, 7-5
3. Rok Bonin (MINN) def. Sven Kasper (DEP) 6-4, 6-1
4. Julian Dehn (MINN) def. Mathias Hambach (DEP) 6-1, 6-1
5. Matija Palinic (DEP) def. Mathieu Froment (MINN) 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 (2)
6. Jack Hamburg (MINN) def. Josh Dancu (DEP) 6-1, 6-0
Doubles Competition:
1. No. 50 Rok Bonin/Julian Dehn (MINN) def. George Chanturia/Filip Dzanko (DEP) 9-8 (2)
2. Jack Hamburg/Phillip Arndt (MINN) def. Mathias Hambach/Sven Kasper (DEP) 9-8 (5)
3. Leandro Toledo/Juan Pablo Ramirez (MINN) def. Matija Palinic/Aaron Chaffee (DEP) 8-4
Match Notes:
No. 34 Minnesota 3-3
DePaul 7-4
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2*,1); Singles (4,6,3*,2,5,1)
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