Men’s Tennis Earns Eighth Straight Win Over Clemson

Clemson, S.C. – South Carolina males’s tennis defeated in-state rival Clemson on Friday night time 7-0 on the Tigers’ house courts. The Gamecocks had been relentless, dominating all doubles and singles matches.

The Gamecocks began scorching in doubles with Casey Hoole and Raphael Lambling incomes the primary win 6-2. The doubles level was clinched by Jake Beasley and James Story who received their match 6-1

Play moved to singles the place the Gamecocks had been rolling, taking first units on all six courts. Hoole was the primary to wrap up his match. The No. 56 sophomore breezed by way of Clemson’s Trey Stinchcomb, successful 6-1, 6-3.

Lambling was the subsequent Gamecock to clear his court docket, successful his match 6-3, 6-1 over the Tigers’ No. 3 participant Spencer Whitaker to place South Carolina up 3-0.

The match was clinched on Court docket 1 by Toby Samuel. The No. 15 ranked Gamecock took down No. 118 Ryuhei Azuma in straight units 6-4, 6-3. Samuel has now received all 5 of his twin singles matches from the highest spot within the lineup with two of them coming over ranked opponents.

Simply seconds later Connor Thomson accomplished his match, defeating Jorge Plans Gonzalez 6-2, 6-4. The win marks Thomson’s tenth straight singles win.

One of many extra contested match of the night time was between Story and Clemson’s Matt Pitts. The Tiger appeared to have the upper-hand to start out after breaking Story on his first service recreation, however the Gamecock battled again to pressure the set to a tiebreaker. The tiebreaker initially appeared even, however Story broke away after two all and was capable of maintain out to win the tiebreak 7-4. Story was then capable of earn an early break in his ultimate set to win it 6-4 for the victory

The final match on was between Beasley and Nini Dica. Beasley was relentless within the first set, taking it 6-1, however Dica fought again to take the second set 7-5. The ultimate set was performed as a ten-point tiebreak that Beasley ran away with, successful it 10-5 to win his match and full the sweep for South Carolina.

This win is South Carolina’s eighth consecutive win over Clemson and second consecutive 7-0 sweep of the Tigers. The Gamecocks final shutout of Clemson at Clemson was a 4-0 win in 2016. It’s South Carolina’s first 7-0 shutout of the Tigers on their house courts since 1998.

The Gamecocks will proceed the non-conference portion of their schedule on the highway, touring to Georgia Tech on Feb. 10, and Wake Forest on Feb. 12.

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(8) South Carolina 7, Clemson 0

Doubles (order of end: 3, 2)

1. Ryuhei Azuma/Spencer Whitaker (CU) vs. #1 Connor Thomson/Toby Samuel (SC) 4-3, unfinished
2. James Story/Jake Beasley (SC) def. Jorge Plans Gonzalez/Max Smith (CU) 6-1
3. Casey Hoole/Raphael Lambling (SC) def. Trey Stinchcomb/Matt Pitts (CU) 6-2

Singles (order of end: 5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 6)

1. #15 Toby Samuel (SC) def. #118 Ryuhei Azuma (CU) 6-4, 6-3
2. Connor Thomson (SC) def. Jorge Plans Gonzalez (CU) 6-2, 6-4
3. Raphael Lambling (SC) def. Spencer Whitaker (CU) 6-3, 6-1
4. James Story (SC) def. Matt Pitts (CU) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4
5. #56 Casey Hoole (SC) def. Trey Stinchcomb (CU) 6-1, 6-3
6. Jake Beasley (SC) def. Nini Dica (CU) 6-1, 5-7, 1-0(5)