Warning: never mess with gators in
their swamp! Unfortunately for the USF Bulls, they did not heed this warning as
they got blanked by the Florida Gators men’s tennis team, 7-0, this past
Tuesday evening at Linder Stadium at Ring Tennis complex. The Gators took the
doubles point with wins in No. 1 and No. 3 doubles and all six singles won in
straight sets. Florida improves to 7-1 on the season in their final match
before beginning Southeastern Conference play this weekend. Florida’s Andrew
Butz and Bob van Overbeek blew away USF’s Ravi Patel and Federico Sabogal with
an 8-3 victory in just 35 minutes at No. 3 doubles. However, the Bulls managed
to show their “horns” a little bit when Wael Kilani and Lucas Maric-Salcedo
defeated Gators’ Tripper Carleton and Spencer Newman, 8-4. Florida came away
with the point after Billy Federhofer and Nassim Slilam won at No. 1 singles
against USF’s Oliver Pramming and Yannick Yoshinzawa.
Butz opened singles play by scoring first for UF, giving them a 2-0 lead. Butz took out Pramming in a quick timely fashion of 58 minutes at No. 6 singles, 6-1, 6-2. They say good things happen in threes as Federhofer and Carleton, playing at No. 5 and No. 2 singles respectively, followed the trend set by Butz as they won their matched by 6-1, 6-2 scores as well. Federhofer beat Marin-Salcedo and literally a minute later Carleton finished Kilani to clinch the team victory for the Gators. However, the Gators continued their tenacity as they showed no mercy to the Bulls in the remaining matches. Newman downed Sabogal, 6-3, 6-4, at No.4 singles and Florent Diep won against USF’s Juan Carlos Acuna Gerard at No. 3 singles. Van Overbeek completed Florida’s shutout over USF with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Yoshinzawa at No. 1 singles. Florida will start SEC play on Friday at 5 p.m. when the Tennessee Volunteers travel to Gainesville. The Florida Gators will host the Georgia Bulldogs on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both the Volunteers and the Bulldogs will prove to be formidable opponents for the Gators because both teams are ranked in the top 20 in the latest ITA poll. Florida’s head coach Andy Jackson commented on the upcoming match against Tennessee stating “They’ve got a lot of young guys who are going to swing for the fences against the Gators. We kind of swung for the fences against them last year when they were No. 2 and they’re going to do the same thing to us. We’ve just got to make sure that we’re there on Friday, and not try to play 11 matches on Friday. We can play Tennessee and we need to be there, or we’ll start out 0-1 [in the conference].”
Butz opened singles play by scoring first for UF, giving them a 2-0 lead. Butz took out Pramming in a quick timely fashion of 58 minutes at No. 6 singles, 6-1, 6-2. They say good things happen in threes as Federhofer and Carleton, playing at No. 5 and No. 2 singles respectively, followed the trend set by Butz as they won their matched by 6-1, 6-2 scores as well. Federhofer beat Marin-Salcedo and literally a minute later Carleton finished Kilani to clinch the team victory for the Gators. However, the Gators continued their tenacity as they showed no mercy to the Bulls in the remaining matches. Newman downed Sabogal, 6-3, 6-4, at No.4 singles and Florent Diep won against USF’s Juan Carlos Acuna Gerard at No. 3 singles. Van Overbeek completed Florida’s shutout over USF with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Yoshinzawa at No. 1 singles. Florida will start SEC play on Friday at 5 p.m. when the Tennessee Volunteers travel to Gainesville. The Florida Gators will host the Georgia Bulldogs on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both the Volunteers and the Bulldogs will prove to be formidable opponents for the Gators because both teams are ranked in the top 20 in the latest ITA poll. Florida’s head coach Andy Jackson commented on the upcoming match against Tennessee stating “They’ve got a lot of young guys who are going to swing for the fences against the Gators. We kind of swung for the fences against them last year when they were No. 2 and they’re going to do the same thing to us. We’ve just got to make sure that we’re there on Friday, and not try to play 11 matches on Friday. We can play Tennessee and we need to be there, or we’ll start out 0-1 [in the conference].”
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