OXFORD, Miss. – Ole Miss men’s tennis cruised through a busy doubleheader day against Alabama State, as the Rebels were able to grab two 4-0 wins over the Hornets to sweep through their competition on Friday.
The Rebels (6-2, 0-0 SEC) put together a well-rounded performance throughout the day to sweep their way past the Hornets (3-9, 2-0 SWAC), with Ole Miss finding singles wins from five different players to navigate their way to a now three-match win streak.
The Rebels started things off on Friday by grabbing a quick doubles point to open match one, with the pairings of Nikola Slavic/Lukas Engelhardt (6-3) and Isac Strömberg/Walker Stearns (7-6) earning a pair of victories in No. 1 and No. 3 doubles.
Momentum for the Rebels carried right into singles play with Nikola Slavic taking a commanding 6-2, 6-3 victory on Court 1 singles. Rebel freshman Isac Strömberg followed this up with a straight-set win of his own in the No. 5 position, taking down his opponent 6-1, 6-4. This marked Strömberg’s first career match playing in No. 5 singles for Ole Miss.
“We ended up having to play inside today, but I think we handled moving from outdoors to indoors well overall,” Strömberg said. “I worked a lot on my serve these past two weeks with Toby and Kalle, and today it really paid off. I think I served really well today and I got a lot of free points from it, so I’m happy with that.”
Lukas Engelhardt would ultimately clinch match one for the Rebels, as the Augsburg, Germany, native swept his sets by scores of 6-2 and 6-3 to earn the fourth and final match point for the team. Having clinched the match 4-0, the remaining three singles…
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