U-M in NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament for 31st Time, Will Take on Arizona
5/3/2021 7:23:00 PM | Men's Tennis
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The University of Michigan men's tennis team earned an at-large bid to the 64-team NCAA Tournament on Monday (May 3) and will make the 31st NCAA appearance in program history.
Michigan (15-4) will take on Arizona in the first round at 10 a.m. Friday (May 7) at the University of Kentucky's Hilary J. Boone Tennis Complex in Lexington, Ky. The Michigan-Arizona winner will face the winner of No. 14 seed Kentucky and Cleveland State on Saturday (May 8) at 1 p.m.
The winner of the Lexington site will advance to the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., where 16 teams will compete for the national title May 17-22.
It will be the fifth straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament for the Wolverines, who were Big Ten Conference East Division champions with a 9-1 record and reached the semifinal round of the Big Ten Tournament before falling to eventual champion Illinois this past weekend. Michigan is ranked in all four national polls and has a key win over Ohio State. The Wolverines' four losses this season were all to teams in the top 25 (Baylor, Illinois, Ohio State).
Michigan is led by three-time All-Big Ten selection Andrew Fenty, the 2020 Big Ten Player of the Year and 2019 ITA national Rookie of the Year. The three-time All-Big Ten first team selection is 16-9 in singles this season including a 13-4 record in dual play.
Fenty and doubles partner Mattias Siimar, a second-team All-Big Ten selection, both captured All-America honors last year as the No. 2-ranked doubles pair. In their Michigan career they boast an impressive 40-7 record. Siimar also has put up a 17-6 singles record this season.
Two-time first-team all-conference selection Ondrej Styler is 12-7 on the season, second-team pick Patrick Maloney is 9-3, and Nick Beaty adds a 19-4 mark.
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