Colorado University Athletics
Men's Tennis Hosts New Mexico Saturday
BOULDER ? The University of Colorado men’s tennis team will host a pair of matches over next four days beginning with No. 54 New Mexico (4-3), Saturday, March 19 at the CU-Boulder South Campus Tennis Courts beginning at 1 p.m.
In case of inclement weather, the match will be moved to the Harvest House Millennium Hotel Bubble later that day at 5:30 p.m.
CU will host No. 14 Oklahoma State on Tuesday.
The Lobos feature one of the elite doubles teams in collegiate tennis with David Kowalski and Ryan Stotland (17-5 overall). The duo is the fourth ranked doubles team nationally out of only 60 doubles pairs and bring a 4-0 dual match record. New Mexico has also won four of its last five matches.
Colorado is coming off a 1-2 record at the Blue Gray Intercollegiate in Montgomery, Ala., upsetting then-No. 15 Harvard on day two of its three-day competition. It’s the highest win ever for a CU men’s tennis team over a Top-15 nationally ranked program.
Leading the charge on that day was Marko Bundalo, who upset the No. 31 ranked player (Jonathan Chu, 6-4, 6-1) at No. 1 singles. Freshman Jan Zelezny (No. 2), Peter Bjork (No. 3), and Chad Tsuda (No. 6) also claimed singles wins against the Crimson.
With the win, CU (5-6) moved up 12 spots in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings from No. 75 to No. 63 out of the 75-team field. The Lobos enter the match as the No. 54 ranked team.
Today’s match up with the Lobos is the second meeting between the two schools this season. CU and New Mexico met on Jan. 22 at the ITA Mountain Region Indoors in Boise with the Buffaloes claiming a 4-0 win. Zelezny, Bjork, Tsuda, and Marek Dvorak all earned straight set wins.
Match Notes
- Marko Bundalo, Marek Dvorak are 2-2 in their last four matches; Chad Tsuda has won his last three singles matches in a row at No. 6
- the doubles duo of Dvorak and Zelezny have won three straight at No. 3 and are 6-2 this dual season
- Tsuda tops the team in dual match victories with six, followed by Bjork and Dvorak each with five
- Bundalo’s 38 career wins are tied for 27th place with two others on CU’s all-time victories list; Tsuda’s 11 wins this season moves him into 30th place. He is tied with four others with 37 career triumphs.
- New Mexico leads the all-time series with CU holding 15-5 advantage. The Lobos have won two of the last three meetings dating back to 2000. Today’s match up in Boulder is New Mexico’s first in Colorado since 1979.
- UNM freshman Max Jones is 18-6 overall in singles and 12-6 overall in doubles. In dual matches, he is 6-0 in singles with a 4-0 record at No. 2 and 2-0 mark at No. 3.
- UNM senior David Kowalski is currently second all-time in career doubles wins with 93, needing just six more for a school record. He is also seventh all-time in career singles wins with 75, trailing leaders Divan Coetzee and Pepe Caballero by 21.