Illinois gets rare tennis sweep at NCAAs

ATHENS - Illinois made it a clean sweep in the NCAA men&#39;s tennis championships in Athens.<br> <br> The Illini&#39;s Amer Delic won the NCAA men&#39;s singles championship Monday, defeating Benedikt Dorsch of Baylor 6-4, 6-3. <br> <br> Delic is the first player from Illinois to win the championship. The last Big Ten player to do so was Michigan&#39;s Mike Leach in 1982. <br> <br> Delic made the most of his serve, committing no double faults and not allowing Dorsch a break point. <br> <br> ``Thank God it wasn&#39;t a three-setter,&#39;&#39; said Delic, a junior from Jacksonville, Fla. ``My arm would have fallen off. I&#39;m going home to the beach.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Dorsch, a sophomore from Germany, said his concentration was off. <br> <br> ``Mentally I was not in the match,&#39;&#39; he said. ``If you don&#39;t believe you are capable of winning the match, then the other guy starts playing well and playing with a lot of confidence.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> The two had met twice earlier this year. Delic won the semifinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American, and Dorsch won the finals of the national collegiate indoors. <br> <br> ``I knew what was coming,&#39;&#39; Dorsch said. ``It was a question of focusing. I couldn&#39;t come up with the big points on my service games. He started playing well from the baseline, extremely well.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Dorsch fought off three break points in a 12-point fifth game of the second set, but Delic won the last four games. <br> <br> Illinois, which won the team title last week, then made it a sweep by capturing the doubles title when Brian Wilson and Rajeev Ram defeated San Diego State&#39;s Oliver Maiberger and Ryan Redondo, 6-4, 5-7, 6-1. <br> <br> ``It can&#39;t get much better,&#39;&#39; said Illinois Coach Craig Tiley. ``You put plans together, but there are other things that control whether they come true or not.&#39;&#39;