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He’ll spend some intense periods
of the most crucial matches spinning
his racket on his finger, an odd sight
considering some of the pyscho head
cases that populate collegiate tennis.
Nebraska coach Kerry McDermott
would tell you that Mueller could be
better than former Husker All-Ameri
can Steven Jung, who was a senior in
Mueller’s freshman year and now is
ranked in the top 500 in the world.
Watching Mueller, you can see
what McDermott means. Mueller runs
along the baseline, hitting stroke after
stroke until, it seems, he tires of the
point. Then he hits some unbeliev
able winner.
Each year his game suffers a bit
after months of play on American
hardcourts. Then he goes back to his
native clay courts, sharpens his game
and returns. That means this is slump
time for Mueller, and he lost his first
two conference matches.
Wednesday, though, he beat An
ders Karlsson of Iowa State. He will
have a true test Sunday against Craig
Wildley of Kansas. His two early
losses put him in a bad spot for seed
ing at the conference tournament, but
he has as good a shot as anyone at the
title and a second individual NCAA
tournament bid.
Watching Mueller play is a pleas
ure. The only frustrating part is know
ing that he could do better—winning
the Big Eight and breaking into the
top 20 — and realizing that his first
three years have gone by so quickly.
Domeier is a senior news-editorial major
and the Daily Nebraskan sports editor.
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Huskers prevail despite mix-up
By Jeff Singer
Staff Reporter
Playing a day early didn ’ t keep the
Nebraska men’s tennis team from
picking up a key conference victory
at the expense of Iowa State.
A scheduling mix-up forced the
Comhuskers to play the Cyclones on
Wednesday, rather than Thursday, as
originally expected. That didn’t stop
the Huskers from easily defeating the
Cyclones 7-2 in Ames, Iowa.
Nebraska coach Kerry McDermott
said he was pleased with the victory.
“I felt pretty good with the match,”
McDermott said. “I think wecould’ve
beaten them by more than we did, but
I’ll take the win.”
Nebraska improved to 2-1 in the
Big Eight and 94 overall. The Husk
ers have 15 points after three confer
ence matches.
McDermott said he was impressed
with No. 1 singles player Matthias
Mueller’s victory over his Cyclone
counterpart.
“I think Matthias is coming around
and is starting to play some quality
tennis,” McDermott said.
Other Husker victories included
singles wins at No. 3 Scott Randolph,
No. 4 Joey Salerno, No. 5 Karl Falkland
and No. 6 Anthony Kotarac.
The wins for Randolph and Salerno
were their second ones in the Big
Eight. Kotarac, who was question
able for the start of the conference
season with a sprqined ankle, is 3-0 in
Big Eight singles play.
Mueller and Randolph won at No.
1 doubles, as did Falkland and Steve
Barley at No. 3.
McDermott said the match was
good preparation for Nebraska’s
matchup Sunday with conference
leader Kansas.
“We needed this win going into
the Kansas match,” McDermott said.
“It will help us feel like we’re ready
to compete this weekend.”
Before playing the Jayhawks,
Nebraska will play Missouri on Sat
urday. The match against the Tigers
will be the Huskers’ conference home
opener, while Sunday’s battle with
Kansas will be Nebraska’s Big Eight
home finale.
NU women burn up court at IS U
By Jeff Singer
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s tennis team
earned its first Big Eight team victory
Wednesday, beating Iowa State 7-2
in a match played in Ames, Iowa.
Due to the early morning cold
weather, the teams were forced inside
and had to start play with the doubles
matches, but were allowed to play
singles outside when the sun began to
warm the campus.
At that point Nebraska was al
ready hot, having won all three doubles
matches en route to the victory over
the Cyclones.
Comhusker coach Bob Hampton
said he was happy to get the win, the
first conference victory for Nebraska
in three tries.
“I feel pretty good about the win,”
Hampton said. “Right now, the team’s
morale is really high.”
Heidi Junius, who plays No. 3
doubles with Tina Coutretsis, agreed
with Hampton about the Huskers’
enthusiasm.
“The team is very happy and ex
cited,” said Junius, who won by scores
of 6-2,2-6,6-2 with Coutretsis. “The
win has brought out a stronger sense
of team unity, and it will help us out
this weekend.”
Junius is referring to this week
end’s battles against Missouri, Kan
sas and Kansas State, Nebraska’s last
home matches of the year.
Rachel Collins, who swept by her
Cyclone opponents 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3
singles and 6-2,6-3 in No. 1 doubles
with Nancy Tyggum, said the squad
is improving.
“After each match, we’re getting
better and better,” Collins said. “Right
now, we’re on the right track.”
The Huskers also received singles
wins from No. 1 Ildiko Guba, No. 3
Tyggum and No. 6 Meghan Quinn.
Guba and Ann Flannery were victori
ous at No. 2 doubles.
. Nebraska improved their confer
ence record to 1-2 and raised their
total Big Eight points to 10.
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