Over the weekend of Feb. 20 and 21, the Denver men’s tennis team journeyed to Tuscon, Arizona to compete against the University of Nevada and the University of Arizona.

Leading up to this contest, the team has had a very successful start to their spring season. The season began on Jan. 23 with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) kick-off. DU defeated the University of South Carolina 4-3, but lost to Ohio State University 4-0, giving the Pioneers a third place finish in their bracket.

The following weekend, the team traveled to Nebraska where they defeated the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 5-2 and lost to the University of Oregon 4-3. Since the Jan. 31 7-0 blowout of the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s team, DU has been undefeated. This put them on a three-game win-streak heading into the Arizona tournament. The other two wins in the streak came from 4-3 victories over Wichita State University and Brigham Young University.

In Arizona, DU had a very impressive showing against Nevada. Junior Diogo Rocha (Lisbon, Portugal), junior Alex Gasson (Alton, United Kingdom), senior Henry Craig (Murrieta, California), senior David Fox (Surrey, United Kingdom) and junior Yannik James (St. Georges, Grenada) all secured singles victories for the team. Nevada only won one singles match.

Gasson, Craig, James and Rocha also won their doubles matches. Again, Nevada only won one doubles match. 

The following day, Feb. 21, DU was back at it again against Arizona. DU defeated Arizona with a 4-2 singles record and a 2-1 doubles record. Craig, Rocha, Fox and Gasson won as singles with Gasson and Craig and Fox and sophomore Jesse Ruder-Hook (Denver, Colorado) winning as doubles.

Denver is scheduled to take on the University of Iowa on Feb. 26 and Drake University on Feb. 27.