Tennessee’s Hunter Reese and Mikelis Libietis joined the 1980 UT team of Mel Prucell and Rodney Harmon as national champions with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (7-3), 7-6 (8-6) win over Ohio State’s fourth-seeded Kobelt and Kevin Metka at Georgia’s Dan Magill Tennis Complex. “Those tiebreakers are just the lottery,” .
The second-ranked Tennessee doubles team won perhaps the match of the entire 12-day NCAA championships Monday – a three-setter with three tiebreakers – and claimed the second NCAA men’s doubles title in Vols history.