The Ohio State men’s tennis team finished just a wee bit short of taking home a national championship, but one of the Buckeyes’ doubles teams has another shot to add a national title trophy to the case.
And it came in come-from-behind fashion.
The doubles team of Andrew Lutschaunig and James Trotter did battle with Pepperdine’s Daniel De Jonge and Tim Zeitvogel and had to pull off a thrilling comeback. The OSU duo started out losing the first set 6-3 and had to work hard to win the second set 7-6 in a tiebreaker by a score of 7-2.
That forced a super-tiebreaker for the third set to determine the winner and Ohio State capitalized on its momentum to win that pretty handily by a score of 10-4. Just like that, a ticket had been punched to the national championship game on Saturday opposite the team of Cleeve Harper and Eliot Spizzirri of Texas.
A comeback win for Trotter and Lutschaunig and they are headed to the NCAA Doubles Championship Match on Saturday #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/iwh66yzsSg
— Ohio State M Tennis (@OhioStateMTEN) May 26, 2023
Match time is set for 11:30 a.m. ET.
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