Michigan senior Ondrej Styler upset the nation’s top-ranked college tennis player to advance to the semifinals of the NCAA singles tournament.
Styler defeated Texas junior Eliot Spizzirri 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida, to become Michigan’s first singles semifinalist since Dan Goldberg in 1987.
For the first time since the NCAA switched to its current format of championships in 1977, Michigan had two players reach the singles quarterfinals, but Andrew Fenty fell to No. 2 Ethan Quinn from Georgia, 6-2, 6-4. In the doubles tournament, Fenty and Gavin Young advanced to the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 7-6 win on Thursday.