Men's Tennis | September 24

CLEVELAND, Oh. - The Northern Illinois University men's tennis team sets its sights on the Horizon League Individuals Championship this weekend, hosted by Cleveland State from Sept. 25-27. 

Friday will begin at 9 a.m. ET with two round of singles and one round of doubles. Saturday will be the same format starting at 10 a.m. ET. The singles final as well as the doubles semifinals and finals will be held on Sunday. The winners of the 32-round Singles Draw and 16-Team Doubles Draw will qualify for the ITA Conference Masters in Rome, Ga. from Nov. 5-8. 

The Huskies will be competing with Belmont, Cleveland State, IU Indy, Oral Roberts, Southern Indiana and Youngstown State. 

Four of the top eight singles seeds are represented by NIU in (1) Constantin Radu, (4) Lorenzo Leti Messina, (6) Curzio Manucci and (7) Saul Berdullas. On the doubles side, (2) Radu / Chiao Bo Suo Nan and (3) Berdullas / Manucci are earned top four seeds. 

Radu has led the Huskies this fall, winning five straight singles matches.