Lincoln, Neb. - The Nebraska men’s tennis team will open its 2024 spring season with a doubleheader at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center this Saturday, Jan. 13. Live streams and stats will be available on huskers.com, and updates will be posted on X/Twitter at @HuskerMTennis.
The Huskers will take on North Dakota at 11 a.m. (CT) before facing Creighton at 4 p.m. (CT).
Scouting North Dakota/Series History
- The Fighting Hawks ended the 2022-23 season with an overall record of 15-8 and a 2-2 Summit League conference mark.
- The 2023-24 season will be head coach Tom Boysen’s third with North Dakota, coaching both the men’s and women’s tennis teams.
- In 2022-23, UND reached the Summit League Championships for the third year in a row.
- Head coach Tom Boysen and graduate student Victor Moreno Lozano have Big Red ties. Boysen is a former Husker assistant coach, and Lozano played for the Huskers from 2018-22.
- Series History: 4-0 NU; The Huskers have faced and defeated the Fighting Hawks four times.
Scouting Creighton/Series History
- The Bluejays ended the 2022-23 season with an overall mark of 13-7 and a 4-0 Big East conference record.
- Creighton has a new head coach, Gerhard Posch, hired in August of 2023. Posch graduated from NU and played in the No. 1 singles slot.
- Creighton ended its 2022-23 spring campaign in the Big East semifinals after upsetting No. 8 Villanova.
- Series History: 50-2 NU; Since their first matchup in 1954, NU has gone 50-2 against Creighton.
In the fall, NU went 37-33 in singles play and 16-15 in doubles. Most notably from the fall, junior Calvin Mueller posted a 10-3 record en route to the Big Ten Individual Championship. Doubles duo Anton Shepp and Nic Wiedenhorn went 4-3 on the season, after making it to the semifinals match in the ITA Regionals Tournament. The pair was invited to ITA Nationals in California to close out fall play. Also finding success on the doubles court was duo Mueller and Leo Linquet, reaching a 3-1 record and placing second at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic.
The Huskers ended the 2023 spring season with a team ITA ranking of No. 52, the highest end of season ranking since 2011. NU was also ranked No. 3 in the ITA Central Region Team Ranking.
From the 2022-23 season, Nebraska has seven returning letterwinners, including Rudi Christiansen, Roni Hietaranta, Lars Johann, Leo Linquet, Shunya Maruyama, Calvin Mueller and Nic Wiedenhorn. In the fall, NU welcomed four newcomers, transfers Anton Shepp, Nikolay Sysoev and Henry Bilicic, and freshman Colson Wells, for the 2023-24 season.
Stay tuned to the Husker Men’s Tennis social media channels to keep up with match updates and content.