Jake Jacoby and his first-year squad are off to a hot start for the 2025-26 campaign after defeating Dayton, 4-1, Sunday night at the South Regency Tennis Center in Dayton, Ohio.
Ole Miss (7-0) is off to its best start in three seasons. However, Dayton (1-3) didn’t make anything easy for the Rebels.
With the match score at 3-1, all Ole Miss needed was one more singles point to clinch. Freshman Vlado Jankanj was matched up against Dayton’s Sturle Skigelstrand. Jankanj, already having won the first set in a 7-6 tiebreaker, once again found himself in the same situation for the second set.
Jankanj would prevail, winning the tiebreaker set, 7-6, to clinch the match for the Rebels as they extended their unbeaten streak.
The first match point for the Rebels came from doubles play. Despite Dayton winning one of the court’s first, the Rebel duo of Matthieu Chammbonniere and Benjamin Martin defeated Rishi Dore and Eric Suk, 6-3.
With the doubles point coming down to the final court, it was up to freshmen Stefano D’Agostino and Pietro Pampanin, and the pair delivered by defeating Mikkel Zinder and Dylan Jaen, 6-4, clinching the doubles point for the Rebels.
The other two match points came in singles play, for Benjamin Martin defeated Kaia Mendible, 6-2, 6-2, to put Ole Miss up 2-1.
Pampanin would follow Martin by defeating Dylan Jaen, 7-5, 7-5, which ultimately set up Jankanj’s match clinch.
Ole Miss will hit the road as it travels to Lincoln, Nebraska, to take on North Dakota on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Centerwith a time to be announced later this week.