WICHITA, Kan. – The Wichita State men's tennis team heads east for a road match against No. 28 Dartmouth, Saturday at the Boss Tennis Center in Hanover, N.H.
 
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SHOCKER SUMMARY
WSU (4-6) is coming off a pair of losses on the road to No. 25 Minnesota (7-0) and Western Michigan (5-2). The Shockers have wins against Denver (5-2), UNC-Wilmington (4-0), Middle Tennessee State (4-3) and Tennessee State (7-0). Five of their six losses have come against top-25 opponents - No. 13 Oklahoma (4-0), No. 3 Mississippi State (4-0) ,No. 20 Tennessee (5-2), No. 15 TCU, (6-0), and No. 25 Minnesota (7-0).
 
ROAD TO THE TOP
Six opponents the Shockers have faced are in the top-50 of the ITA/Oracle Team Rankings. Mississippi State (9), TCU (15), Minnesota (17), Oklahoma (21), Tennessee (26) and UNC-Wilmington (47). Memphis (36) and Drake (46) are set to take on the Shockers later in the season.

STRONG UP TOP
Senior Haru Inoue leads the Shockers in singles play, sporting a 5-2 record (2-1 1^st, 3-1 2^nd). Inoue Knocked off Scott Jones, who ranked No. 75 for Tennessee. His only losses have came to Alex Rybakov of TCU, who ranked No. 8 in singles play, and Stefan Milicevic of Minnesota. Marius Frosa is 5-3 in the third slot for WSU. The junior clinched the match at Middle Tennessee with an impressive come-from-behind win on Feb. 4. Murkel Dellien is 3-6 in dual play, with four losses coming to ranked opponents.
 
ON DARTMOUTH
The Big Green (5-4) sport a team ranking of No. 28, in the latest ITA/Oracle Team Rankings. Their wins came against Indiana (4-0), Bryant (4-0), Kentucky (4-3), Drake (4-3) and Princeton (4-0). The suffered setbacks to No. 14 Columbia, Louisville, No. 25 Minnesota and Penn.
 
BIG GREEN IN THE RANKINGS
Charlie Broom holds a 3-4 record in the top flight, and holds a ITA/Oracle Singles Ranking of No. 34. Broom and David Horneffer are 5-2 in the top flight of doubles, good enough for a No. 19 ranking.

NEW FACES
The Shockers welcomed two freshmen to the 2019 squad. Freshman Stefan Latinovic comes to WSU from Belgrade, Serbia and won his first collegiate match on Feb. 4 against Tennessee State. A native of Petah Tikva, Israel, Orel Ovil joined WSU in the fall, and earned his first win as a Shocker at ITA Central Regionals, a three-set thriller over Nebraska-Omaha's Abdoul Ouattara.
 
DELLIEN'S REMARKABLE FALL RUN
Junior Murkel Dellien compiled a 6-2 record in the fall, including wins over two ranked opponents (No. 55 Josh Goodger, Tulsa and No. 32 Ferran Calvo of Oklahoma).  A native of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Dellien reached the semifinal of the ITA Central Regional for the first time since Shocker All-American Phil Cooper in 1995.