Wisconsin returns home looking to regain early season success
Home sweet home.
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Home sweet home.
After a weeklong break, the Wisconsin women's tennis team ((0-1 Big Ten, 6-7 overall) traveled to rival Minnesota to open its Big Ten conference schedule. Trying to snap its six-game losing streak, the Badgers fell to the Gophers, 4-3, and continued its recent downward trend.
The Wisconsin women’s tennis team (6-6) will travel to Minneapolis, Minn., this weekend for a Saturday afternoon match against their rivals, the Minnesota Golden Gophers (8-4).
As the Wisconsin men’s tennis team (6-6 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) reached the halfway point of the spring season, this weekend produced a familiar set of results. The Badgers continued their dominating play at home and in doubles action but were again unable to break through and capture that elusive first win of the season away from Madison.
In their final non-conference showdown, the Wisconsin Badgers (6-6) fell to James Madison, 4-3. The match concluded UW’s road trip to Virginia, and was played in a neutral setting at Virginia Tech.
The Wisconsin women’s tennis team (6-4) will travel to Blacksburg, Va., this weekend to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies (6-0) and James Madison Dukes (6-0), two teams with whom the Badgers do not have much history.
The Wisconsin men’s tennis tennis team (0-1 Big Ten, 5-5 overall) continued an unsettling trend Saturday night in Minneapolis. As dominant as the Badgers have been at home this season — where they have yet to be defeated — they have remained unable to carry that success with them outside of Madison.
The University of Wisconsin men’s tennis team (5-4) bounced back from a tough road trip with a resounding 6-1 victory over in-state rival Marquette (5-2) on Friday at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. The Badgers dominated the match from the start, taking the doubles point early and then sweeping the first four singles matches to clinch the win.
It has been a tale of two seasons thus far for the Wisconsin men’s tennis team (4-4) as through eight games, the Badgers sit at .500.
The Wisconsin men’s tennis team (4-4) trekked out west this weekend for a pair of matches against formidable Pac-12 foes Oregon and Washington. However, the Badgers came away empty-handed, losing both matches 5-2 in tough fashion. The squad started out the road trip by taking on an Oregon team that head coach Danny Westerman called a “very good team” that also features both a top-20 singles player, Thomas Laurent, and doubles pair, Laurent and Cormac Clissold. Oregon brought a 4-2 record into the match, with their only two losses coming against No. 5 powerhouse Stanford and No. 23 Cal.
The previously undefeated Wisconsin Badgers (6-1) welcomed the defending champion No. 3 Florida Gators to Madison in the first round of the 2018 ITA National Women’s Team Indoor Championship Friday night. But in doing so, the Badgers suffered their first defeat of the season as the Gators shut out Wisconsin 5-0.
The Wisconsin men’s tennis team will attempt to win its first matches of the spring season away from Madison this weekend, when it travels west to face some unfamiliar foes.
The Wisconsin men’s tennis team returned to their winning ways in impressive fashion this weekend, with a pair of victories at Nielsen Tennis Center on Saturday.
The undefeated Wisconsin Badgers (6-0) continued their hot start to the season on Saturday, sweeping Green Bay 7-0 in the second part of a doubleheader, after defeating Bradley 7-0 in the first match of the day. Short-handed Green Bay, who only had five women competing, was no match for the Badgers who improved to 6-0 on the season — their best start in school history since 1992.
The Wisconsin men’s tennis team (2-2) struggled in their first weekend series away from home, as they dropped both of their matches. In their opening match of the ITA Kick-Off tournament in Stillwater, Okla., to 13th-ranked Mississippi State, UW fell 4-1. It was a tough start to the tournament for the Badgers, as they faced a nationally-ranked Bulldogs team that boasts four singles players ranked in the preseason top-125 rankings, including third-ranked Nuno Borges.
After knocking out the second overall seed in the quarterfinal of ITA Nationals tournament this weekend, seniors Chema Carranza and Joe Dodridge were in uncharted territory. The talented doubles pair became the first players from Wisconsin to ever make the national semifinals.
When Chema Carranza and Joe Dodridge made history last week, the senior tennis players were both so overcome with emotion that they didn’t know what to say to each other.
The Wisconsin Badgers (0-8 Big Ten, 4-13 overall) fought a rough battle in their last matchup at home this season against the Purdue Boilermakers (1-7 Big Ten, 5-13), losing 5-2 Sunday on Senior Day.
As the year beings to wrap up, this season has been a rebuilding period for the UW women’s tennis team. Through all the ups and downs, the team showed great improvement as the season went on. But those strides weren’t enough to propel the Badgers (0-8 Big Ten, 4-13 overall) to a victory Friday night as Indiana (3-5, 12-11) pulled out a 6-1 win.
Wisconsin (0-7 Big Ten, 4-12 overall) looks to end the home season on a positive note by getting their first conference win of the season. Friday, the Badgers host the Indiana Hoosiers (2-5, 11-11), and Sunday, they will face the Purdue Boilermakers (0-7, 5-13).