Ole Miss Drops Tight 4-3 Match To Baylor

WACO, Texas In a battle of two top 10 teams that went down to the wire, the No. 9 nationally ranked Ole Miss men’s tennis team lost a tight 4-3 match to No. 10 Baylor at the Baylor Tennis Center Friday.

With the match squared at 3-3, all eyes turned to court one, where 39^th-ranked Jonas Berg was battling 10^th-ranked Denes Lukacs.  After dropping the first set 6-3 and trailing 5-3 in the second, Berg battled back to take a 6-5 lead.  It would go to a tiebreaker, with Lukacs winning it 7-4 to clinch the match.

This was the Rebels’ (7-2) second outdoor match of the season, after defeating TCU 5-2 on Thursday in Waco. 

Ole Miss won a hard fought doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 2 to take a 1-0 lead.   Devin Britton and Tucker Vorster, playing their second match together, walked off the court first with an 8-5 win over Attila Bucko and Marc Bruche at No. 2 doubles. On court one, fourth-ranked Jonas Berg and Bram ten Berge and Baylor’s David Galic and Jordan Rux, were locked in a 6-6 tie when the Ole Miss duo broke Rux’s serve.  Then ten Berge held his serve to allow the Rebel tandem to clinch the doubles point.

Baylor (8-3) evened the score when Maros Horny defeated Rebel freshman Marcel Thiemann 6-2, 6-1 at No. 6 singles.   They took a 2-1 lead after Dominik Mueller’s 6-1, 6-2 win over 79^th-ranked Bram ten Berge on court four.

Junior Kalle Norberg, ranked No. 32 in the nation, tied the match at 2-2 with an impressive 6-2, 6-1 win over BU’s Julian Bley at No. 3 singles.  Freshman Devin Britton, ranked No. 40, put the Rebels ahead by defeating 38^th-ranked Jordan Rux 7-5, 6-2 at No. 2 singles.

The Bears answered when Bucko handed Rebel freshman Otto Sauer a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 loss at No. 5 singles, setting up the final outcome.

The Rebels return to Oxford for a three-match homestand beginning with Memphis Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center.

DOUBLES

1. Berg/ten Berge (OM) def. Galic/Rux (BU) 8-6

2. Britton/Tucker Vorster (OM) def. Bucko/Bruche (OM) 8-5

3. Lukacs/Horny (BU) def. Thiemann/Thiemann (OM) 9-8(2)

Order of Finish: 2, 1, 3

SINGLES

1. Denes Lukacs (BU) def. Jonas Berg (OM) 6-3, 7-6(4)

2. Devin Britton (OM) def. Jordan Rux (BU) 7-5, 6-2

3. Kalle Norberg (OM) def. Julian Bley (BU) 6-2, 6-1

4. Dominik Mueller (BU) def. Bram ten Berge (OM) 6-1, 6-2

5. Attila Bucko (BU) def. Otto Sauer (OM) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3

6. Maros Horny (BU) def. Marcel Thiemann (OM) 6-2, 6-1

Order of Finish: 6, 4, 3, 2, 5, 1

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