RENO, Nev. – Nevada Men's Tennis lost its final home match of the season, 4-1, to Boise State. The Broncos made a huge comeback to spoil senior day for the Pack.
 
The Pack's seniors, Youssef Kadiri and Lucas Hammond, opened their senior day with a dominant 6-2 top-flight doubles victory against Jett Middleton and James Van Herzeele. Kadiri and Hammond's victory tied the program record for doubles victories by a pair in a single season at 21.
 
John Chin and Carson Baker tied the doubles session with a 6-4 win over Max Contet and Rayen Hermassi on court three.
 
The Pack clinched the doubles point on court two in a thrilling match between Rémy Trégourès and Greg Valente and Boise State's Julius Seifert and Taiyo Kurata. Each team broke serve twice in the opening five games, leading to a 3-2 Nevada lead. The serving team held serve for the rest of the match, forcing a tiebreaker. The Pack jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the tiebreaker, but Boise State responded, winning both of their service points. The Broncos broke a point from Trégourès's serve to climb to 4-5, however, Nevada broke back, allowing each team to hold serve and cruise to a Nevada win 7-5.
 
Nevada was off to a strong start in the singles session, winning five of the six first sets. The Boise State comeback began on court three, where after losing the first set 6-0 to Rayen Hermassi, Lukas Velik won the second and third sets 6-0, 6-4.
 
Idriss Haddouch gave Boise State the lead with a pair of dominant set victories to close a 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 win over Max Contet on court three. On court four, Van Herzeele won a pair of sets, 6-3, after Trégourès won the opening set 6-2.
 
Carson Baker fell 6-4 to Lucas Hammond in the first set but won the following sets 6-0, 6-2.
 
The Pack were looking up in the two abandoned singles matches. Kadiri won the second set in a thrilling 8-6 tiebreaker to force a third set, which #116 Middleton led 3-2 when the match was abandoned. Valente was tied 5-5 with Chin in the third set when the match was abandoned.
 
Nevada falls to 1-3 in conference play entering the final week of the regular season. The Pack will head to Las Vegas to take on UNLV in the Silver State Series presented by America First Credit Union. The match is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Thursday. Nevada will then close the regular season at noon on Saturday at San Diego State.
 
Full Results
#42 Boise State 4, Nevada 1
Doubles
No. 1 – Kadiri/Hammond (NEV) def. Middleton/Van Herzeele (BSU), 6-2
No. 2 – Trégourès/Valente (NEV) def. Seifert/Kurata (BSU), 7-6 (5)
No. 3 – Chin/Baker (BSU) def. Contet/Hermassi (BSU), 6-4
Order of Finish: 1, 3, 2
 
Singles
No. 1 – Kadiri (NEV) vs. #116 Middleton (BSU), 2-6, 7-6 (6), 2-3, unfinished
No. 2 – Carson (BSU) def. Hammond (NEV), 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
No. 3 – Velik (BSU) def. Hermassi (NEV), 0-6, 6-0, 6-4
No. 4 – Van Herzeele (BSU) def. Trégourès (NEV), 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
No. 5 – Haddouch (BSU) def. Contet (NEV), 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
No. 6 – Valente (NEV) vs. Chin (BSU), 6-4, 2-6, 5-5, unfinished
Order of Finish: 3, 5, 4, 2