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Men’s Tennis Central: #5 Tennessee vs. #3 Florida – University of Tennessee Athletics
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Tennessee (22-6) soundly defeated Georgia Friday and has now superior to the semifinals or additional in every of the 4 SEC Match runs since head coach Chris Woodruff took the reins at his alma mater.
Saturday marks the 77th all-time assembly between Tennessee and Florida, with the Vols having defeated Florida 4-3 within the 2021 SEC Match ultimate. This season, the Gators have posted a 21-2 total document and are the top-seeded crew within the SEC Match bracket.
QUICK HITTERS
• Tennessee enters postseason motion having been ranked contained in the ITA prime 5 for a nation-leading 27 weeks in a row, coming in at fifth in Wednesday’s up to date rankings.
• The Vols personal 9 top-25 triumphs this twin season, together with three top-10 victories and a 6-1 mark in opposition to groups ranked No. 11-25.
• Tennessee has gained the doubles level 20 instances this season, holding an 18-2 document when taking this 1-0 benefit.
• Tennessee has gained 5 consecutive matches and eight of its previous 9.
• Johannus Monday and Mark Wallner proceed to discover a approach at No. 3 doubles this 12 months, holding an unblemished 12-0 document collectively this twin season. Personally, Monday is driving a career-best doubles win streak of 11 matches.
• Tennessee is 5-1 in impartial web site matches this 12 months, together with two wins this week (4-0 over Alabama and 4-1 over Georgia). Though labeled a impartial web site match, Friday’s win was successfully a street contest as a consequence of Georgia internet hosting the match.
• The Vols reached the championship match on the ITA Indoor Nationwide Championships in Seattle earlier this twin season, logging a 3-1 document within the Emerald Metropolis.
• In a March 25 street comeback victory over then-25th-ranked Texas A&M, UT head coach Chris Woodruff grew to become the fifth UT males’s tennis coach to achieve 100 profession teaching victories with this system. Together with this, he grew to become the second-fastest of these 5 to achieve the century mark, doing so in 128 matches.
• Tennessee has now amassed 20 or extra wins in every of the previous 4 full seasons. The Vols had been 14-2 when the 2020 twin season was shut down as a consequence of COVID-19 and reached the 20-win mark in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022.
• Reigning NCAA Doubles Nationwide Champions Adam Walton and Pat Harper have gained their final 11 accomplished doubles matches collectively and completed the common season with an ideal 9-0 doubles document in SEC play.
VOLS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#7 – Adam Walton
#12 – Johannus Monday
#72 – Emile Hudd
Doubles
#21 – Emile Hudd/Shunsuke Mitsui
#25 – Pat Harper/Adam Walton
GATORS IN THE RANKINGS
Singles
#1 – Ben Shelton
#27 – Sam Riffice
#87 – Duarte Vale
#116 – Joshua Goodger
#122 – Andres Andrade
Doubles
#10 – Sam Riffice/Ben Shelton
#37 – Andres Andrade/Mattias Siimar
#57 – Abedallah Shelbayh/Mattias Siimar
THE TENNESSEE WALTS
With doubles and singles wins Friday, Walton is on the verge of creating historical past for Tennessee. Now at 116 profession singles victories, Walton stands one win away from tying VFL Luca Wiedenmann for the sixth-most profession singles triumphs in program historical past. In doubles, Walton earned his 99th profession doubles win Friday, needing only one extra to develop into the sixth Vol in program historical past to enter the 100/100 membership with 100 singles wins and 100 doubles wins.
MONDAY MILESTONE
In his straight-set, 6-3, 6-4 singles win over Georgia’s #46 Philip Henning Friday, Monday earned the 30th victory at No. 2 singles of his Tennessee profession. Total, Monday is 55-15 (.786) in singles motion since arriving on Rocky High.
SENSATIONAL SHUN
Tennessee’s SEC Freshman of the Yr hopeful and three-time SEC Freshman of the Week Shunsuke Mitsui recorded his thirty second singles win of the season Friday in opposition to Georgia, tying Johannus Monday for the eighth-most singles wins in a season by a Tennessee freshman. With 28 doubles wins this 12 months, Mitsui stands at No. 6 on Tennessee’s all-time freshman checklist for doubles wins in a season. This 12 months, Mitsui grew to become the second participant within the SEC to achieve the 20-win milestone in twin singles motion and the primary SEC freshman to achieve the feat.
VETERAN STABILITY
With a 27-8 total singles mark this season, 18-6 (9-3 SEC) in twin singles matches, Tennessee senior Emile Hudd has been a dependable power for the Huge Orange. He’s 10-3 on the No. 3 singles spot, profitable eight of his earlier 9 accomplished matches.
UP NEXT
A Tennessee win Saturday would ship the Vols to the SEC Match ultimate for a 3rd consecutive match, doing so in 2019 and profitable the championship match in 2021. There was no match held in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 international pandemic.
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