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No. 8 Illini Conclude Regular Season Slate at Atkins
April 19, 2018 | Men's Tennis
Match 24 and 25: Illinois vs. Wisconsin, Minnesota
| Date | Friday vs. Wisconsin - 3 pm | Sunday vs. Minnesota - 12 pm |
| Location | Atkins Tennis Center |
| Live Links | Scoring and Streaming |
| 2018 Information | Match Notes | Record Book |
The No. 8 Fighting Illini men's tennis team concludes the 2018 regular season with a pair of Big Ten opponents beginning tomorrow afternoon at the Atkins Tennis Center. On Friday, Illinois will welcome the Wisconsin Badgers for a 3 pm contest. The Orange and Blue will celebrate Senior Day on Sunday as Illinois takes on Minnesota at 12 pm. UI will honor Illinois seniors Aron Hiltzik, Pablo Landa and Aleks Vukic, as well as, Minnesota seniors Felix Corwin and Matic Spec in between doubles and singles.
Match Points
- Illinois has won seven-straight matches against Wisconsin, dating back to the 2011 season.
- The Illini have not defeated Minnesota since the 2015 season.
- Illinois will cap the regular season slate at home for the second-straight season.
Illinois Notes
- The Orange and Blue's seven-match Big Ten winning streak this season sits at No. 6 in the Illinois record books and is the program's longest string of wins against Big Ten foes since 2016.
- Illinois is 13-2 when winning the doubles point.
- The Illini are 15-0 when winning at the No. 5 position and 7-0 when winning at the No. 6 position.
- Senior Aleks Vukic has climbed to No. 13 on the Illinois Career Singles Wins list with a 104, surpassing Mark Long's 103 career singles wins from 1984-1988.
- Sophomore Zeke Clark is currently on a seven-match singles winning streak.
- Fellow-sophomore Aleks Kovacevic has won six-straight singles matches.
- Freshmen Alex Brown and Caleb Chakravarthi have clinched a team-best nine doubles points and combined to clinch eight Illinois match victories.
Sophomore Success: Clark, Kovacevic Rolling in 2018
Sophomores Zeke Clark and Aleks Kovacevic continue to produce for the Orange and Blue. Both players are riding six-match and seven-match singles winning streaks, respectively. The pair are also undefeated in Big Ten singles play. Kovacevic has tallied a team-best 14-2 dual match singles record. The duo has combined to clinch four Illini match victories and four doubles points as a doubles pairing.
Brown Garners Second-Straight B1G Weekly Honor
Freshman Alex Brown was named the Big Ten Men's Tennis Athlete of the Week for the second-straight week on March 13. The Urbandale, Iowa, native earned his third B1G weekly honor after a 4-0 week against Notre Dame and Northwestern. The three weekly honors matches the most by an Illinois freshman in program history. Former Illini All-American, Jared Hiltzik, garnered three B1G weekly honors during his freshman campaign in 2013, which is also the last time a conference freshman won three weekly awards in a single season.
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