Virginia Men’s Tennis Dethrones Florida, Advances to NCAA Semifinals

For the eleventh time within the final 15 seasons, Virginia has superior to the semifinals of the NCAA Males’s Tennis Championship. In a marathon match that lasted over 5 hours because of a prolonged climate delay, No. 7 UVA males’s tennis took down the No. 2 seed and defending nationwide champion Florida Gators 4-1 on the Khan Out of doors Tennis Advanced in Champaign, Illinois. 

The match started at 8pm (ET) and the groups accomplished doubles motion earlier than a sequence of lightning and rainstorms delayed the match for practically two and a half hours. 

Simply the competitors that came about in doubles play earlier than the climate delay carried a whole match’s value of motion and drama. 

Florida’s crew of Duarte Vale and Nate Bonetto dispatched Gianni Ross and Jeffrey von der Schulenburg 6-1 to take an early lead, however the Cavaliers tied it up with a 6-4 victory by Bar Botzer and Chris Rodesch over Florida’s Sam Riffice and Ben Shelton, the No. 5-ranked doubles duo within the nation.

The doubles level was selected court docket 2 in an epic match between Virginia’s Ryan Goetz and Inaki Montes and Florida’s Mattias Siimar and Andy Andrade. The one-set match went to a tiebreaker earlier than Goetz and Montes prevailed 7-6 (7-3) to clinch the doubles level, ending Florida’s streak of 21-straight matches during which the Gators had captured the doubles level. Florida additionally entered this match on a 21-match successful streak. 

The climate delay interrupted singles play in the midst of the opening units. After the courts had been dried, play resumed and the Gators obtained some extent again as Andy Andrade defeated Ryan Goetz 6-3, 6-4 to even the match at 1-1. 

On court docket 2, Inaki Montes took down Sam Riffice, the defending NCAA males’s singles champion, in straight units 7-5, 6-4 to place the Cavaliers again in entrance. Gianni Ross received a pair of hard-fought units 7-5, 7-5 towards Mattias Siimar on court docket 5 to maneuver Virginia to inside one level of clinching the victory. 

Jeffrey von der Schulenburg misplaced his first set to Duarte Vale, however rallied to win the second and third units to beat Vale 2-6, 7-6, 6-3 to safe the win for Virginia. 

UVA (26-5) advances to play No. 6 Tennessee (26-7) on Saturday at 2pm with a spot within the championship match on the road. 

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