LAS VEGAS - One match, one win.
The NM State men's tennis team opened up the spring portion of its season at the Fertitta Tennis Complex on the campus of UNLV Friday, securing a 4-1 victory over Big West foe UC Riverside.
NM State won its spring season opener for the first time since 2020 and started its four-match weekend off on a winning note.
DOUBLES
• As they had done for most of the fall, Gijs Akkermans and Corey Clarke got the job done on line two of doubles action. That NM State duo, the WAC's Doubles Team of the Month for September 2021, generated a 6-2 victory against the Highlanders' tandem of Nolan McCaig and Ryan Huynh.
• UC Riverside, though, made sure the doubles point would remain up for grabs. Partnering together for the first time, Martin Simecek and freshman Itay Feigin suffered a 6-2 loss at the hands of Daniel Velek and Aarav Sane.
• That left the fate of the Aggies' doubles point in the hands of Louis Menard and Jordy Visser. In their first dual match together since May 2, 2021, Menard and Visser claimed both a win and the doubles point by getting by Andreas Whelan-Merediz and Joshua Roth by a 6-4 score in top-flight action.
SINGLES
• UC Riverside managed to knot things up at 1-1 after Akkermans suffered a 6-2, 7-5 setback to Whelan in flight four singles action.
• By receiving some strong one-on-one play of their own, though, the Aggies made sure the Highlanders never jumped in front. Visser, who missed his team's entire fall season, secured a 6-2, 7-6 win over Sane in line six action.
• Simecek continued to keep things moving in the right direction for NM State by making all the right moves late in the second set of his one-on-one battle. NM State's flight two singles competitor out-dueled Velek by a 6-3, 7-6 tally.
• Clarke conjured up the match-clinching point for NM State by battling back from a second-set loss. Slotted in flight three, Clarke collected a 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 triumph over Roth to seal the deal for the Aggies.
• At the time NM State clinched the win, Menard was ahead 7-6, 5-3 over McCaig in top-flight play. Feign, competing in his first collegiate dual match, was locked in a 7-5, 4-4 battle with Justin Lamy when things went final.
COMING UP NEXT
• NM State makes its move to go 2-0 in the 2022 spring season Friday afternoon at the Fertitta Tennis Complex when the Aggies duke it out with Weber State. First serve has been set for 3:00 p.m. MT.
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