![]() It shows our guys that if we are tougher and a little bit more consistent that we can beat anybody. “We played a top-25 team and you don't always play a top-25 team, even in the round of 16, especially if you're top-8. On how the match helped prepare them for the Sweet 16… Nasim two days in a row, on his real senior day, was a huge factor in the match because it enabled Spencer to relax and Andrew to relax and Bob and Trip to relax because we feel like we're going to win the match when we win those matches so quick like Nas and Flo did.” Then Nasim and Flo winning so easy helped. He wasn't feeling that great physically which actually helped him because he had to use his head a little bit more. “Spencer was great in singles and doubles. We changed a lot in the doubles and I was proud to see Spencer and Bob turn that one without reverting back to the way they played before and kind of get the reward that they deserved and that our team deserved. I honestly believe that if we kept our composure we still would have won having lost the doubles. “It was big because it put them under a lot of pressure. To our credit, we showed some toughness and consistency and that can scare some people in Athens when they see us do that.” It was a tough match because Harvard is good, Harvard is top-25 and they have a lot of confidence. Even though we feel like we're better, they might have a little bit more confidence than us because they haven't lost very much where we know we can lose because we've lost sometimes, but we've only lost to the very top. “It was a very tight match but Harvard is a top-25 team that's only lost twice. On how it was a tight match despite the 4-0 score… ![]() We showed some toughness and consistency that we haven't always shown during the year and we can cause some problems if we continue to do that.” So we're excited to be playing and we know that we can compete with anybody because we've kind of done it this year. “Two of our main goals for the year are to host regionals and then be able to go to the Sweet 16. ITA National Ranking: Florida 12 Harvard 24 Updated Records: Florida 16-9 Harvard 23-3 #48 Tripper Carleton (UF) led Denis Nguyen (Harvard), 6-3, 3-2 DNFģ. Jonathan Pearlman (Harvard), 6-7 (4), 3-1 DNFĢ. NCAA Men's Tennis Championships Second Roundġ. Complete information for the tournament in Athens can be found on the University of Georgia's athletic website. Ohio State, who defeated Notre Dame 4-0 on Sunday afternoon, is 33-3 on the season and is ranked fifth in the latest ITA Rankings. 4 singles, Newman used a boost from the crowd to pull out the first set against Shaun Chuadhuri and then continued his solid play in the second set, winning 6-4, 6-2 to clinch the victory and UF's trip to Athens for the next round. Diep defeated Harvard's Alex Steinroeder, 6-1, 6-4, on court five and shortly after Slilam closed out Schultz, 6-2, 6-3, to give UF a 3-0 lead in the match.Īt No. Pearlman and Schultz responded with another break to go up 7-6, but the Gators fought back and won the final three games to secure the doubles point with a 9-7 victory.Īfter gaining the momentum from doubles, Florida was able to control the match with a pair of early points from Diep and Slilam. On court two, Harvard's duo of Jon Pearlman and Christo Schultz went up a break against UF's Spencer Newman and Bob van Overbeek, but the Florida pair got the match back on serve at 6-6 with a break of their own. 3 doubles, as Michael Alford and Florent Diep beat Andy Nguyen and Denis Nguyen, 8-2. The Crimson's Alistair Felton and Casey MacMaster got things started with an 8-5 win on court one over Florida's Tripper Carleton and Nassim Slilam. The doubles action started off very tight on all three courts, and the two teams split the matches on courts one and three. “To our credit, we showed some toughness and consistency and that can scare some people in Athens when they see us do that.” “It was a tough match because Harvard is good, Harvard is top-25 and they have a lot of confidence,” said head coach Andy Jackson. The University of Georgia will host the remainder of the event and the Gators will face fifth-seeded Ohio State in Athens, Ga., next Friday, May 18, at noon. ![]() 24 Harvard, 4-0, at Linder Stadium at Ring Tennis Complex. 12 University of Florida men's tennis team advanced to the Round of 16 of the NCAA Championship for the third year in a row on Sunday, defeating No.
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