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2016-17 Men's Tennis Roster

Nikita Lis

  • Height 6-1
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Kaliningrad, Russia
  • Highschool Lyceum No. 49

Biography

• Four-Time First-Team All-Southland Conference
• Seven-Time All-Southland Conference
• Six-Time Southland Conference Player of the Week
• First-Team Academic All-Southland Conference


Spring 2017
• Guided the Cardinals to back-to-back SLC regular-season titles for the first time since the 1975 and 1976 seasons.
• Guided the Cardinals to back-to-back NCAA Championship appearances.
• First-Team All-Southland Conference Singles
• Second-Team All-Southland Conference Doubles
• Two-Time Southland Player of the Week
• Played the Nos. 1 and 2 singles positions, and the No. 1 doubles spot
• Recorded an 11-10 (.524) singles record, including a near perfect 4-1 (.800) SLC mark.
• Has won seven of his last 10 singles matches with a match being halted.
• Enters the postseason with a three-match win streak.
• Ranked among Southland leaders in doubles victories (15) with teammate Jeandre Hoogenboezem.
• The duo went 15-4 (.789) on the year, including a 3-1 (.750) league record and a 14-1 (.933) mark at No. 1 doubles.
• Lis and Hoogenboezem have won eight of their past 10 matches heading into the NCAA Championships.
 
Fall 2016
• Posted a 6-3 (.667) overall singles record
• Went 2-3 (.400) in doubles competition with teammate Jeandre Hoogenboezem
• Competed in the ITA Men’s All-American Championships for the second-straight season.

Spring 2016
• Helped bring LU its first Southland Conference regular-season title since 1976.
• First-Team Doubles All-Southland Conference (at No. 2).
• Second-Team Singles All-Southland Conference (at No. 2).
• Two-time Southland Conference Player of the Week.
• Went 12-7 (.632) in singles, all on court two.
• Posted a 12-7 (.632) doubles record with teammate Jeandre Hoogenboezem.
• Duo was a near perfect 9-1 (.900) at No. 2 doubles.
• Won six consecutive singles matches to close the regular season.
• Did not lose a doubles match in his last 11 contests.
• Helped lead LU to wins over nationally ranked Iowa (#47) and Rice (#28).

Fall 2015
• Received an ITA Preseason No. 22 national ranking with teammate Michael Feucht.
• Went 4-4 in doubles competition, and 8-6 (.571) in singles play.
• Advanced to the ITA doubles quarterfinals with Michael Feucht.
• Received an invite to compete in the ITA All-America Championships in singles and doubles (with teammate Michael Feucht).

Spring 2015
• Along with teammate Michael Feucht, ended the year with a top 60-national ranking and top-10 regional rank.
• First-Team All-Southland Conference Singles and Doubles.
• Named SLC Champion at No. 1 doubles
• Two-Time SLC Player of the Week
• Received an at-large bid to the NCAA Doubles Championships with partner Michael Feucht.
• Feucht and Lis were edged out by Georgia’s top-ranked duo
• First-Team Academic All-Southland
• Was 17-2 (.895) in doubles play.
• Was 7-0 at No. 1 doubles with Feucht, and 10-2 (.833) at the No. 1 spot with Jeandre Hoogenboezem.
• Finished second on the team with 15 singles victories (15-8), including a near perfect 5-1 (.833) Southland record.
• All 23 of his matches came at No. 1 singles.
• Closed out the season with four consecutive singles victories. 


Fall 2014
• Advanced to the quarterfinal round of doubles with Michael Feucht at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational, fell to TCU in the quarterfinals round. Guillermo de Vilchez of Wichita State.
• Finished 1-2 in singles play at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational. Lone win was against Guillermo de Vilchez of Wichita State.
• Reached the semifinals in singles completion with a 4-1 record at the Rice Fall Invitational and wins over Uannick Junger of UTSA and Nebraska's Ford Zitsch and top-seeded Dusty Boyer.
• Won the Ron Wesbrook Fight One Singles Championship against Texas-Pan American's Juan Cruz-Soria.
 
Spring 2014
• Voted second team All-Southland Conference.
• Jumped between the first and second courts in singles play and finished with an overall record of 14-8.
• Started out the season with four-straight wins, over No. 11 Texas A&M's Junior Ore, Alcorn State's Lucas Morviac, Louisiana-Lafayette's Rick de Groot and UT-Arlington's Carlos Arbiza.
• Was 6-4 in slot one and 8-4 in slot two during singles.
• Finished the year 5-15 in doubles, with three different teammates during the season.
• With Steven McMullan he was 0-3, Trey Crysel 1-4 and Mikko Rajamaki 4-4.
 
Fall 2013
• Went 3-5 in first semester in Beaumont
• Opened season with a win over Midwestern State's Kyle Davidson at the Tyler Junior College Quad Match
• Picked up two more wins at the Ron Wesbrooks Invitational, knocking off Incarnate Word's Leonard Ivic and Texas-Pan American's Ricardo Hopker
• Went 3-4 in doubles with Steven McMullan
• Knocked off LU teammates Juuso Laitinen and Mikko Rajamaki to earn top flight title at Ron Wesbrooks Invitational
• Other wins came over teams from Ouachita Baptist, Nicholls and UIW.
 
High School
• Attended Lyceum No. 49
• Ranked as high as seventh in his age group in Russia
• Winner of multiple Tennis Europe and ITF Junior titles.
 
Personal
• Born Nikita Lis on April 10, 1995 in Kaliningrad, Russia
• Son of Andrey and Nataly Lis.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Sophomore

    6'1"
  • 2015-16Junior

    6'1"
  • 2016-17Senior

    6'1"
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