Urbana, Ill. – The Fighting Illini are on to Orlando after soundly defeating Notre Dame 4-0 on Saturday afternoon. Illinois came out with energy and focused. They earned the doubles point with wins on courts two and three.
"I still want to give a lot of credit to DePaul from yesterday, they really sharpened us up to where we needed to be today in doubles, " said head coach Brad Dancer. "I'm just really proud of our guys for really being focused all day today. When Kova is bouncing around and AB is bouncing around we are a good team. Now let's go down to Florida and keep playing our best tennis."
Noé Khlif and Siphosothando Montsi defeated Brandon Ancona and William Howells 6-3 before Hunter Heck and Aleks Kovacevic won 6-3 over Matthew Che and Richard Ciamarra.
Khlif was the first Illini to finish in singles, defeating Brandon Ancona 6-2, 6-0 in 45 minutes. The winning continued with Kovacevic on court one. He defeated Axel Nefve 6-2, 6-2 to earn his 99th career singles win.
Alex Brown clinched the Illini's trip to Orlando defeating Tristan McCormick 6-2, 6-2 on court 3.
"Felt really good to win today," said Alex Brown. "We played really well in doubles and then came out with that same energy in in singles."
"We're excited to get down to Florida and take care of business," said Montsi.
