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Huskers Travel To Iowa – University of Nebraska



Nebraska Cornhuskers at Iowa Hawkeyes

Sunday, February 28 at 3 p.m. CT

Hawkeye Tennis & Recreation Center

(Iowa City, Iowa)

The Nebraska men’s tennis team (0-2, 0-2 Big Ten) will travel to Iowa City to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes (2-2, 2-0 Big Ten) this Sunday, February 28, at 3 p.m. CT for the Huskers’ first away Big Ten Conference matchup. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, admission will not be allowed for the general public.

 

Live streaming and scoring links for both matches will be available on hawkeyesports.com

 

Scouting Iowa

• The Hawkeyes finished the 2019-2020 season with a 12-2 record overall and a 1-0 record in Big Ten play, with quality wins over No. 16 Cornell, No. 35 Denver and No. 50 VCU.  

• Three Iowa tennis players are ranked in the ITA Division I national rankings. Kareem Allaf is ranked No. 39, and the doubles team of Oliver Okonkwo and Will Davies are ranked No. 17 nationally.

• Kareem Allaf, a sixth-year senior from Dubai, has 153 combined victories in singles and doubles, which is seven wins short of the program record. His 89 career singles wins ranks second in school history.

• At the Hawkeye Tennis & Recreation Center, Iowa has won 16 of its last 18 matches dating back to April of 2019, while also going 2-0 at the first two home matches of the 2021 season.

• Head Coach Ross Wilson is in his seventh year as leader of the Iowa men’s tennis program. During his first six years as head coach, Iowa had 74 match victories, which ties for fifth most in school history.

 

Series History

• Iowa holds a 8-4 all-time advantage over Nebraska, as the teams’ rivalry started when NU joined the Big Ten in 2011-2012.

• The Hawkeyes have won the last five contests against the Huskers, including a 5-2 win in 2020.

• NU last triumphed against the Hawkeyes on March 11, 2016 — in a Big Ten matchup played in Iowa City.

 

Couples of Firsts

• The No. 1 doubles team of Victor Moreno Lozano and William Gleason recorded their first win of the season last weekend, defeating Purdue’s Mateo Julio and Michal Wozniak, 6-2.

• Also on the doubles side, achieving their first victory of the season was the No. 2 team of Albert Sprlak-Puk and Patrick Cacciatore, beating Purdue’s Tomasz Dudek and Milledge Cossu, 6-4.
 
Sprlak-Puk’s Singles Success

• Albert Sprlak-Puk, a sophomore from Brno, Czech Republic, notched his second singles win of the season against Indiana’s Vikash Singh in the No. 3 spot last Sunday.

•  Last season, Sprlak-Puk posted a 4-5 overall record in singles play and an 8-9 record in doubles play.
 

New Signee

• A native of Lappeenranta, Finland, Roni Hietaranta has won four singles and four doubles ITF Junior Tournament Titles. In 2018, Hietaranta took both the singles and doubles titles at the Under-21 Finnish Championships.

• Hietaranta will be joining the program for the 2021-22 season.

 





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