The Michigan men’s tennis team won the doubles point and took the early 1-0 lead, but then saw its national-title hopes unravel in singles.
The seventh-seeded Wolverines, lost, 4-1, to No. 2 TCU on Friday in a quarterfinal match that was delayed from Thursday night because of rain at the USTA National Center in Lake Nona, Fla. The Wolverines lost the first sets in five of six singles matches, with three of those losses coming in tiebreakers.
In doubles, Ondrej Styler and Jacob Bickersteth won, 6-2, and Patrick Maloney and Nino Ehrenschneider won a tiebreaker, 7-6, to lead the Wolverines to a 1-0 advantage heading into singles.