Michigan Falls 7-0 Against No. 23 Minnesota

Sunday, March 19

Minneapolis, Minn.

9:00 AM CT

Michigan

Minnesota

3/19/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- The University of Michigan men's tennis team suffered its second straight loss, falling 7-0 to No. 23 Minnesota Sunday morning (March 19) at the 98th Street Racquet Club. The Golden Gophers (14-4) swept the doubles matches to claim a 1-0 lead in the match, then claimed all six singles matches to close out the shutout win.

The Wolverines (7-2), listed No. 21 in this week's Intercollegiate Tennis Association national team rankings, dropped their Big Ten Conference opener for the first time since 1996-97 (6-1 loss at Illinois) and were shut out during the regular season for the first time since 1997-98 (7-0 setback to Virginia Commonwealth).

Michigan takes a week off before traveling to Illinois (Saturday, April 1, noon CST) and Northwestern (Sunday, April 2, noon CST).

Following are match-by-match results:

Singles
No. 1 -- Harsh Mankind (MINN) d. Matt Wright, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
No. 2 -- Thomas Haug (MINN) d. John Long, 6-4, 6-3
No. 3 -- Jorge Duenas (MINN) d. Henry Beam, 6-3, 6-1
No. 4 -- Martin Michalowski (MINN) d. Danny McCain, 6-2, 6-1
No. 5 -- Tyson Parry (MINN) d. Ben Cox, 6-4, 6-3
No. 6 -- Jon Svensson (MINN) d. Ron Nano, 6-1, 6-0

Doubles
No. 1 -- Michalowski/Haug (MINN) d. Wright/McCain, 9-7
No. 2 -- Duenas/Mankind (MINN) d. Long/Cox, 8-3
No. 3 -- Svensson/Parry (MINN) d. Beam/Nano, 8-2

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