1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Nebraska Women's Tennis Coach German Dalmagro Breaks Down the Action from Over the Weekend: March 9th, 11:00am

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Nebraska Women's Tennis Coach German Dalmagro Breaks Down the Action from Over the Weekend: March 9th, 11:00amAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-the-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Morning, boom to you here from one-on-one on 93-7. The ticket. I'm Jake Bakubin in studio here. D.P. is traveling.

It's another travel day as he heads back from wrestling. And I know he's got probably got, I believe, war stories from his traveling this week because I know he spent a lot of time at the airport. So that won't be too fun. Never is, but that's part of traveling, I suppose. But in any case, it's bright, nice day here in Lincoln, Nebraska. And we've got a special guest for you once again here, Nebraska women's tennis coach, Hermann Delmogro joining me for the day.

Hermann, how is it going here today? It's going great. It's going great. Thanks for having me. I know they're a beautiful day in Lincoln. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't complain here. It seems like spring is just around the corner.

Certainly is actually officially here in about 11 days. My son's already trying to argue with me about when we're going to plant flowers and he wants to get it done. So we're going to have to do that. Some good talks. That's good. Yeah. Start to harvest. Get some,

you know, I wouldn't say crops, but maybe some tomato plants or something else there for. No, that's good. I think it's always, actually my son asked this morning too, is that when is spring? We're talking about like how nice was.

I was like, well, just in a few weeks, but I was like, we're, you know, we're hopefully already that time of the year. I think it's a good time, you know, enjoy more time outside and the kids need more outdoors, you know, so it's good. Are you a green thumb and all? You like to plant, go through flowers or anything? You know, we have a little bit of a couple planters in the back and we, I think we put some things the last few years. I tend to know to not like go over them as often as I should, you know, so some things overgrown or my wife and the kids

sometimes like to do that, but we do. You know, sometimes it works out, sometimes it does. And I think it's a good little family activity to have and maybe teach your kids a little bit of a, you know, the hard work face, you know. But we do it. I'm not as involved as it should be. I like the garden.

I like to mow the grass. and I like to do all those things, you know, but veggies and all those things, I, you know, I, I mean, I eat him. I just don't have time, you know, to harvest it. So, yeah. Yeah, fair enough. And I was just wondering because, you know, you're pretty well traveled. There's probably different type of vegetables and stuff you can grow at different stops along the way. Exactly. Yeah, different time of the year.

Yeah. You know, I lived in quite a few years in a very tropical country, so which it was summer just about all year long, you know, so you can kind of pretty much grow anything, you know. And everything outgrows because it rains a lot. You know, it's always having humid. So you're like, you have a harder time keeping up with it more than just growing in. So but yeah, no, it's good. I think it's a fun activity. Yeah.

Do you, does it help you having made that adjustment yourself when you're trying to recruit out there? Because people do wonder, like, what's it like to be in Nebraska? And there's definitely upsides, but it's also rather cold at times. And so, you know, having lived in tropical weather and making that adjustment yourself, Is that to help you a little bit? I mean, it has. It definitely has because sometimes I compare, I tell them my experience. He's like, hey, I live in many years in all your long.

It's like, I think the cool thing here now is like, let's say if you're only experienced it for four years, it's like, you're going to have four seasons well-defined. So I think that's something that you can, you know, learn. You can kind of like get used to. You can. And then when whatever you want to live maybe in the future, you know, that you can kind of now compare things. You know, instead of always feeling like, oh, I want to go to a place where. where at the same place that I grew up, you know, something.

So it's like, I think it's good to get out of your comfort zone and be like, oh, you're going to have four seasons pretty well defined here. And I think you kind of like, once you get, my pitch is usually like, once you get tired of one season, the next season comes, you know? Once you get tired, another one, the next season comes. So it's always constant moving. But I think you learn and you adapt and you can kind of enjoy most of them. I don't want to enjoy the negative degrees as much.

But I think it's, you know, I think it's as more positives than negatives. having four seasons. Yeah. You know, I mean, I live in Florida. I went to school in Florida, and I know that, you know, yeah, you basically have a season and a half, right? It's summer and a little bit of fall with a little bit of some days in the cold, but you kind of get tired of that.

And I think having four seasons is helpful. Now, it's a hard sales and tons of recruits where they only go play tournaments in good weather and good locations, knowing that, hey, you're going to play, you know, in rough weather. But we try to come in the, in the, from the angle of, you know, know, you can adapt to all the conditions, you know, so then when you go play tournaments in any condition, then you're ready for it, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And then you, we kind of went over this last time we went through this, but, you know, you know, especially here in Nebraska,

you don't think of it as much. You're like, okay, tennis, indoor or outdoor, especially Nebraska is like, yeah, it could be either one, but you were kind of explaining it is mostly an outdoor sport. It is, it is considered an outdoor sport. So, so having indoors, it does make it nice, you know, it's like less conditions. It's easier to play. But it is considered an other sport. And I think most of the players, you know, when they travel, when they set their home base, you know, a lot of players go travel or go move to warmer, better places to train and leave and do all the training blocks. So it's kind of considered that. You know, we don't have one of the best players in the war saying, hey, I'm going to do my training block in Nebraska, you know.

They all say, I'm going to go in, you know, Southern California. I'm going to go to Florida, you know. I mean, some of the European players go to Dubai, you know. know to do it, you know, because it's hot and humid. They just want to get used to the conditions. So as they go, you know, different places like that. So it's, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's hard. And I think we, you know, our summers here just as hard as Florida. So we tell them we can, we can do those blocks just as well here too. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Let's get into, of course, Nebraska tennis now 7 and 4 had a weekend slate there at the, the, the city in Hazel,

Dylan Center. Drop the first one, Illinois. We could start with that. How did the team look end up losing 4-0? But what were some of the positives from that? Yeah, he was a hard fall of 4-0. You know, I think we play for just over 3.5 hours. Well, ended up losing 4-0.

But it was a really good match. You know, five matches, went to three sets. So it could have gone either way. I think we had a match point to win the doubles point, which in my eyes, I think. I think we kind of let that one go. We had a match bond. We were up a break in a core that we should have closed it.

But, you know, that's how tennis goes. But we should have won those points. So we should have gone to singles one zero up. And then I think some of that momentum will shift. Didn't go our way, but we responded really well on singles. You know, all, you know, I think we won actually three or four first sets in some of those matches. So we were in a position to win. We just couldn't quite overcome it.

I think we again, we're kind of like finding to play kind of with a full lineup, you know, with a roster. We had our player that has been out for the whole semester. She played her first doubles match. So it was good to see her out there and then she couldn't play singles. So but everybody that played singles did a really good job. I mean, we play Illinois better than NASA every single position, you know, on paper, right? But we competed really well. I'm very proud of the effort, the attitude, the energy.

Again, it was just over three and a half hours. And if you think that the four zero usually goes in about two hours, you know, when you, you know, so to play that long and five matches, going to three sets that, you know, in all the terms, you're saying like, hey, those those are extra innings or that's an overtime, you know, like third set is just kind of like, you know, to take it to the distance. It's, you know, it means that we're doing a lot of great things, you know. We didn't come up with any of the wins. in one of them we were up to Cedar on the third when the match stopped in another one we were tie in the third another one we lost seven five in the third

so it was like just right there you know right there you know the goal for us is kind of like take the positive saying like hey we're doing really good things and then in some of the things that we're not doing as well at times it's like how can we be more consistent in those and how can we get better at it

so it's something that we'll continue to work and we always try to take the positive, but very, try to be also very intentional how we, how we attack the things that we're going to work on. So on Saturday, we work on a few of those things, and then Sunday, again, Northwesterners are a really good team.

You know, I think both of these teams are, they're ranked a little lower right now because they both host national indoors, so they play, you know, the best teams in the country, and some of them, they play them really close, so their schedule kind of hasn't played in their favors, but they're both really good teams. you know, both ends of late teams have really strong rosters.

So it was good. And then on Sunday again, Northwestern, I think it was, you know, lost 4-3, last match on in the third set. You know, so we're right there. You know, we're right there. I think we're just kind of climbing over the hump, just to get a little bit of the hump. You know, it takes, we keep telling it just takes a little more belief, a little more of that poise, a little bit of a couple matches under pressure. you know, our number one, upset a rank player, you know, which is really good for her. We finally have Conley, you know, Raid, which is her first match in the spring semester,

and she actually won, play number two singles and won her first match since October. She's played. So it's great to have her back. And then, you know, we lost a really close match in another match. And our freshman won. And then we lost one match, 7-6-76. And then the last match on, we lost 6-2 in the 3rd, but we were right there. So again, you know, it's like, it's how we keep responding.

I was very proud. You know, we should almost want the doubles point again. We were up a break. We won a match. We were up a break in another one and we kind of lost it. You know, we have some small things to work on doubles, how to, you know, play with a little more intensity and aggressiveness. When it kind of matter, we get ahead and then we tend to, I don't know, relax or feel like we have it.

But we keep working on that. And singles was great. The energy was awesome. We competed really hard. Our intensity was good. He just came up a little close, you know. So we keep talking about this. It's like, it's nothing but encouragement signs for me.

You know, yes, it's disappointing. But I think only this is, to me, it asks fuel, you know, a field to just keep working hard and keep coming back stronger. And, you know, the matches don't get easy from now on. I think the only thing is that we need to get stronger. You know, we need to get stronger. We need to just get a little better, you know, in some small details and, you know, close some of those sets or some of those opportunities we get because we do a really good job

in creating those opportunities. We just kind of capitalize on those, you know. But I was very proud of the effort, the whole team, everybody did a great job, just came up a little short. Yeah, yeah. And, of course, you got plenty of games to try to bounce back. Michigan will be the next one. Of course, you're going to travel the Ann Arbor this week on Friday. What does the week look like? When do you travel up?

We leave Thursday morning. Yeah, we have just two days of practice at home. Just Tuesday, we have two days off, Tuesday, to practice, Wednesday, practice. And then we leave Thursday morning, practice there Thursday afternoon, and then play Friday. Yeah, Michigan is a great team. I mean, they've semifinals in the end of late last year. They're a top 10 team.

Most of the time, top five, you know, also this year, I think they're a top 10 team. So there will be a tough task, you know. We're excited to test ourselves and see where we are. And then we play a short trip to East Lansing on Saturday. And then we play Michigan's Day on Sunday, which, again, they're a strong team too. But yeah, we're excited for the battle. I think I felt like our team does a pretty good job on the row as well. So we look forward to the battle.

We'll have just a couple days to practice here at home and see if we can make some tweaks in some areas, that we can continue to get better and try to stay healthy and, you know, do rehabs, which is today is kind of the day of recovery and see our trainer and do, you know, all the things for taking care of our bodies. And tomorrow is a first opportunity to work on some things. And then Wednesday, a little tougher practice to push ourselves and then Thursday on the road. So yeah. So I did notice, too, with a lot of these, I mean, it's set up like it was this week.

at home you do kind of the Friday, Sunday. And then on the road, like you said, it's usually, like this time, it's paired well, like Michigan and Michigan State. Here down the line, you're going to do Purdue and Indiana, Friday and Sunday. So what's kind of the difference in that Saturday when you're at home or, you know, compared to on the road where there's, it's a travel day. Yeah, I mean, on the, on home, we decided, for example, we practiced in 9.30. So it was the late Friday night, but we practiced 930, July 11.30.

We're just working a few things. Some, some players had longer. practice that Saturday. Some always had a really short day, just depending how the bodies were feeling, you know, try to recover for Sunday. So we do that. And then when we're on the road, depending how far the travel is between places, you know, we're usually in minivans or a bus, depending where we go, usually just use that day to travel and then to practice and then to kind of rest your body and just get used to the new facility. You know, so we try to play the day before obviously the new facility because just about every tennis facility plays differently.

The lighting is different. The space is different. The courts are configured differently. The course surfaces are different. Some are faster, some slower. So it takes a little bit of time just to adjust to those conditions. And so we use that kind of in-between day to do that. Yeah.

And of course, with Michigan and Michigan State ahead, you know, and you mentioned Michigan's kind of standing in the tennis world, how are their facilities? I mean, as you look forward to this weekend. That's good. They have great facilities. You know, they're kind of right on campus right next to the golf course. They have 12 outdoors, 80 indoor courts. I think they play in two sides.

So three courts playing one side. And then you have the seating and three in the other where it's not like six in a row like ours. So you kind of like have no idea what's going on in one side where the other side is playing. Okay. Which is kind of odd, you know. But yeah, that's their setup. So that part will be, you know, a little adjustment because we're used to kind of see in each other in across six courts. Michigan at Michigan State

they both have like two halves of course and the sitting in the middle so you don't know what's going on in the other side but that's that's how they'll build and we just have to adjust you know so yeah they both have good facilities and I think

Michigan State course a little faster than hour so the ball will come a little quicker or now so we'll have to get there and just prepare it's no way to prepare here because that's you know we don't have the same court right so yeah so we have to prepare there that one day in practice.

That's very interesting. So with that divided court, and I don't know how it is usually, if you're kind of sticking on to one game and you have assistance to look around. But are you going to be going back and forth in between them? You try. Try to look around and try to see who needs more help.

And obviously we try to divide with assistant coaches. But yeah, it's tricky because you kind of, you know, me as a coach, I kind of want to see everything. You know, I want to see how everything is. Sometimes you don't have that chance. So you have to be back and forth. but if you leave some of your players alone and you go check the other side

and you're like, you know, you kind of like, well, I have to get back to the other one. So it's a little bit back and forth. But, you know, I think both teams have the same situation. So you just have to adapt. Now, and you mentioned too, it's, you know, less of tennis as far as like scouting. But is it tape for you to be able to go back and look?

I mean, we have some tape from previous years sometimes or, you know, players that we know. but there's times that we just you know I mean we play this weekend with some players I've never seen play before you know and then we have no tape and then we have no notes for anybody you know or maybe you try to get notes for

for a common opponent and then you know that coach and then you call that coach you'll be like hey you know and you tell me how they play but as an individual sport too they might play they might have a style given what their player played that day but then

if our player plays differently some players sometimes the play's different too okay yeah so they might be like hey they're her back end was weaker that day so you got to attack her back end and then maybe you start playing that match

and her back end that day was great and you're like wait what I mean you know like you told me her backing was good and then today is no you know so it's like it changes a little bit sometimes if it's a very glaring weakness or strength then it's good to know it

but sometimes it kind of changes day to day but some players have some weaknesses and strength that it's nobody how they are they're still there right. I think in tennis in college especially, I think players tend to

change a little bit. They're not as predictable at times as professionals are just because professionals, you kind of see them and you know kind of how they are. I think college they're still kind of developing and sometimes they have some good days and okay days, so it changes a little more. But yeah, we try to

get some notes and sometimes you go blindsider and you try to figure out as you play. Yeah, yeah. The difficulties of coaching tennis. That certainly sounds like it could be difficult to do. Let's go ahead and take quick break. We've got Hermann Delmogger in for one-on-one Nebraska women's tennis coach. We'll talk a little bit more about the team in their journeys ahead and their battles behind them as well. Coming to next year on one-on-one on 93-7. The ticket. Download our app by searching 93.7.7 the ticket in your app store.

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