Hoosiers Find Success at Badger Invitational

Thursday, January 28

Madison, Wis.

Indiana University

Badger Invitational

1/31/2021 2:25:00 PM | Men's Tennis

MADISON, Wis.– The Indiana men's tennis team opened the spring 2021 season by traveling to Wisconsin for the Badger Invitational.

Indiana had 10 student-athletes compete over the course of the four-day event and played against Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska.

After starting the event with a couple of doubles wins on Thursday night against Minnesota, the Hoosiers played singles against Minnesota and doubles against Wisconsin on Friday. Indiana posted a record of 5-3 in singles and 3-1 in doubles in those matches.

Senior William Piekarsky won two of his three singles matches on the weekend as did freshman Michael Andre and sophomore Luka Vukovic. Freshmen Ilya Tiraspolsky and Michael Andre went 3-0 on the weekend in doubles matches. Freshman Jagger Saylor and junior Vikash Singh combined to win two of their three doubles matches.

The Hoosiers closed the invitational on Sunday with singles matches against Nebraska and went 5-2 with wins from Andrew Redding, Vikash Singh, Luka Vukovic, Michael Andre and Patrick Fletchall.

IU Head Coach Jeremy Wurtzman
"The goal was to get as many matches as possible. It was great to get out there and compete in the IU jersey as a team. We got better every day and we can now use what we saw and go back and work on some things. We have good depth on this team and good team chemistry and it's important for us to focus on being a team and not as individuals."

Indiana wins from the Badger Invitational
Jan. 28 (Doubles)
Ilya Tiraspolsky/Michael Andre def. Allen/Zarkovic (Minnesota) 6-4
Jagger Saylor/Vikash Singh def. Heap/Dobbs (Minnesota) 6-2

Jan. 29 (Singles and Doubles)
Singles Results
Luka Vukovic def. Vlad Lobak (Minnesota) 6-4, 7-6 (7-4)
Michael Andre def. Sebastian Vile (Minnesota) 6-3, 6-3
Ilya Tiraspolsky def. Daniel Martin (Minnesota) 6-3, 6-3
Jagger Saylor def. Bodin Zarkovic (Minnesota) 6-4, 7-5
William Piekarsky def. Kaleb Dobbs (Minnesota) 6-4, 7-6 (7-4)

Doubles Results
Ilya Tiraspolsky/Michael Andre def. Parts/Pratt (Wisconsin) 6-3
Patrick Fletchall/Andrew Redding def. Soha/Sculley (Wisconsin) 6-4
Jagger Saylor/Vikash Singh def. Krill/Freimuth (Wisconsin) 6-3

Jan. 30 (Singles and Doubles
Singles
William Piekarsky def. Daniel Nuzhny (Wisconsin) 6-4, 6-3
Patrick Fletchall def. Robert Krill (Wisconsin) 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 6-2

Doubles
Patrick Fletchall/Andrew Redding def. Sprlak-Puk/Perez (Nebraska) 7-6 (7-2)
Michael Andre/Ilya Tiraspolsky def. Wiedenhorn/Cacciatore (Nebraska) 6-2
William Piekarsky/Vikash Singh def. Chester Wickwire/Shunya Maruyama (Nebraska) 6-2

Jan. 30 (Singles)
Andrew Redding def. Victor Moreno Lozano (Nebraska) 6-2, 6-1
Vikash Singh def. Brandon Perez (Nebraska) 6-2, 6-3
Luka Vukovic def. Albert Sprlak-Puk (Nebraska) 6-2, 6-3
Michael Andre def. Nic Wiedenhorn (Nebraska) 7-5, 6-2
Patrick Fletchall def. Chester Wickwire (Nebraska) 6-3, 6-3

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