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LSU Shines in Florida, BYU Wins Opener, Vukic/Norrie/Sarkissian Win Down Under, Futures Action

LSU’s guys were the top performers in Day 1 of the FGCU Invitational as they went 5-2 in singles and 2-1 in doubles. Kentucky had 2 freshmen make their debuts as Ryotaro Matsumura (14.08) won in straight sets over Memphis’s Felix Rauch (12.63) while Enzo Wallart (13.17) lost a tough 3-setter to Memphis’s Kai Lemke (13.38).Friday Results Singles/DoublesLSU 5-2/2-1Kentucky 5-3/1-3Memphis 3-4/2-1FGCU 2-6/2-22016 FLORIDA GULF COAST INVITE – DAY ONE RESULTSSingles Competition#87 Andrew Watson (Memphis) def. Nils Ellefsen (Kentucky) 7-6 (7-3), 6-2Ryan Peniston (Memphis) def. Trey Yates (Kentucky) 6-1, 6-4Ryotaro Matsumura (Kentucky)...

NCAA 1st Round Previews: Virginia Tech & Baylor Regionals

Virginia Tech RegionalBurrows-Burleson Tennis Center – Blacksburg, VA[15] Virginia Tech (19-4) vs. [49-64] East Tennessee State (17-7) – Friday 2pm – #15 Virginia Tech got an at-large bid after getting upset 4-3 in the ACC quarterfinals by #42 Georgia Tech while ETSU punched its ticket for the 9th year in a row after shutting out Furman in the Southern Conference Championship. ETSU went 2-6 against ranked opponents with the wins over #56 Texas A&M Corpus Christi and #73 UNC Wilmington. ETSU finished the season by winning 13 in a row and 16 of its last 17 with the Bucs only yielding 11 points in the 16 wins. Doubles...

Thursday Recap: UNC Tops Duke, Ole Miss Fights Back, aTm Rings Up Another Win, Dawgs over Hogs

North Carolina won the big match of the day as they knocked off cross town rival #6 Duke 4-2.   The Tar Heels started off by taking the doubles point as its #3 team of Esben Hess-Olesen and Andrew Gores provided the clincher winning 8-5.  The senior duo had never played an official doubles match before today but were thrown together after fellow senior Oystein Steiro had to sit out with an injury. Duke quickly tied the match at 1 with Chris Mengel picking up a win when Esben Hess-Olesen was retired with an injury when trailing 5-2 in the 1st.   Just a few minutes later UNC would retake the lead when Robert Kelly laid out TJ Pura 6-0, 6-1 at #6...

Thursday Preview: Duke/UNC, LSU/aTm, Ole Miss/S Carolina, UGA/ARK

Pretty decent schedule of matches for a Thursday with Duke making the 10 mile trip to Chapel Hill to face North Carolina plus at least 2 of the matches in the SEC should be competitive.  I have the live scoring links below so follow along when they get underway. #6 Duke (19-3) at #16 North Carolina (16-8) – 3pm est – Live Scoring – North Carolina leads the overall series by a wide margin (89-38) but Duke has won 4 of the last 5 so for North Carolina’s sake it’s a good thing that Brayden Schnur came back last week.   The Tar Heels went 4-3 in Schnur’s absense but upon his return they were able to beat...

Sunday Recap: Hoos Too Much For Hokies, Texas A&M Gets Past Florida

Both Virginia and Texas A&M faced tough opposition on Sunday but both answered the bell and came out on top.  Virginia won the doubles point and then took all 6 opening sets and managed to finish the top 3 out in straights as Mitchell Frank, Ryan Shane, and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski all won.   Virginia played singles without one of its top 3 players as Collin Altamirano sat out due to a stomach bug.Virginia Tech did show some fight down low but Virginia still managed to win 2 of those 3 with all going 3 sets. Virginia recap”I was pleased with the overall performance today,” said head coach Brian Boland. “Virginia Tech showed why they...