CHAMPAIGN, Ill – Illinois men’s tennis left East Lansing, Mich. with nine wins at the Drobac/Beeman Invite from Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 hosted by Michigan State.
Day one
Sophomore transfer Mathis Debru started off the victories when he defeated Notre Dame’s Jameson Corsillo 6-1, 3-0 (ret.) before freshman Kenta Miyoshi picked up a 5-7, 6-2, 10-1, win against Fighting Irish, Braeden Ho.
Freshman Tyler Bowers won his first collegiate match against the host school’s Reed Crocker, 6-2, 6-2.
Lucas Horve battled until the end against Michigan State’s Anthony Pero, ultimately falling, 6-4, 5-7, 11-9.
In doubles play, Miyoshi and Debru went 2-0 when they beat Notre Dame’s Ho and Corsillo and Michigan State’s David Saye and Kazuki Matsuno, 6-1.
Horve and Bowers took one apiece after beating Michigan State’s Pero and Crocker 6-2 and falling to Michigan’s Will Cooksey and Patorn Hanchaikul, 6-1.
Day two
Debru carried his momentum into the next by defeating Matsuno, 6-4, 6-2. However, the Frenchman dropped his second match of the day to Michigan’s Bjorn Swenson, 6-4, 6-3.
Miyoshi also battled a Spartan in singles, beating Saye 6-4, 6-3, but dropping his other match to Michigan’s Andrew Fenty, 6-0, 6-2.
Horve defeated Northwestern’s Saiprakash Goli, 4-6, 6-2, 12-10, but lost his other match 6-4, 6-3, to Cooksey.
“With this being my first tournament back this fall,” Horve said, “these matches were exactly what I needed to get back in the physical and mental shape that I need to be in.”
Bowers lost both his singles matches on the day, one to Hanchaikul 6-7, 6-0, 10-2, and the other to Max Bengtsson, 6-3, 6-0.
Day three
Debru picked up his third win at the tournament after outlasting Western Michigan’s Peter Kuszynski, 3-6, 6-2, 13-11.
Miyoshi, Bowers and Horve each lost their singles match – Miyoshi to Western Michigan’s Anton Arzhankin, 6-4, 6-2, Bowers to Notre Dame’s Noah Becker, 6-3, 6-4, and Horve to Notre Dame’s Brian Bilsey, 6-2, 6-4. Bisley and Becker also defeated, 6-4, Bowers and Horve, in doubles.
Miyoshi and Debru also dropped their doubles match to Arzhankin and Kuszynski, 6-3.
Up Next
The Illini have a weekend off before the Dayton Invite from Oct. 14-16.
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