Men's Tennis 1/27/2023 6:08:00 PM

NIU Completes Tennis Sweep

Men Fall to Huskies 7-0

Box Score

The Chicago State men's tennis team loss to NIU 7-0 Friday afternoon at the Nelson Tennis Center in DeKalb. The Huskies won two doubles matches by a 6-1 count to claim the team point then won two-set matches in five of six matchups for the win.

"They absolutely wore us out in doubles," head coach Jack Barton said. "We have to be better than what we showed today. We showed some good fight in singles but undisciplined play and unforced errors were were too much to overcome."

Compete results listed below.

The men's tennis team will wrap up the week at home, playing their second match in three days, hosting Omaha at the H-F Racquet & Fitness Club on Sunday, January 29 at 12 p.m.

Chicago State at Northern Illinois
1/27/2023 DeKalb, Illinois
(Nelson Tennis Center)

Northern Illinois 7, Chicago State 0

Singles
1. Cheng En Tsai (NIU) def. Pedro Alvarez (CSU) 6-4, 6-2
2. Oliver Valentinsson (ISU) def. Hugo Hidalgo Vega (CSU) 6-2, 6-4
3. Arrastia Gaztambide (NIU) def. Max Sandoval (CSU) 6-0, 6-3
4. Armin Koschtojan (NIU) def. Arhaan Pahwa (CSU) 6-3, 6-2
5. Christopher Norlin (NIU) def. Rodrigo Alves (CSU) 6-4, 2-6, 1 (14)
6. Guy Dagan (NIU) def. Percy Siercke (CSU) 6-4, 6-1

Doubles
1. Cheng En Tsai/Mikael Vollbach (NIU) def. Pedro Alvarez/Max Sandoval (CSU) 6-1
2. Armin Koschtojan/Oliver Valentinsson (ISU) def. Arhaan Pahwa/Rodrigo Alves (CSU) 6-1
3. Christopher Norlin/Christopher Knutson (NIU) vs. Percy Siercke/Hugo Hidalgo Vega (CSU) 3-3 (incomplete)

Order of finish: Doubles (1,2); Singles (3,2,4,1,6,5)

About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team won the 2011 Great West regular season and tournament championship and earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational. The CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.

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