Florida Gators
Texas A&M
Men's Tennis Edged at #14 Texas A&M, 4-3
Saturday, February 23, 2002 | Men's Tennis
UF’s two ranked doubles teams were beaten to open the match with 26th ranked Chris McDonald and Hamid Mirzadeh losing 8-0 at No. 1 and Levant and Magallan, ranked 18th, lost their match at No. 2 by a 8-3 score. Keith From and Ante Matijevic completed the Aggie sweep with a 9-8 (2) win at No. 3.
Singles play saw the Gators earn a 3-3 split from the higher ranked Aggies, highlighted by Behrmann’s 6-3, 6-3 win over 80th ranked Jarin Skube of Texas A&M. For Behrmann, a junior from Indianapolis who attended Saddlebrook Prep School in Wesley Chapel, Fla., it was his second career win over a ranked opponent and his first since beating No. 67 Tomas Smid of Miami on Oct. 27, 2000. Magallan took his match at No. 2 by a 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 score over over 63rd ranked Lester Cook. Olivier Levant was a 6-4, 6-3 winner at No. 3 for Florida over From. The tussle at No. 6 proved decisive as with the Aggies already up 3-2, Khaled El Dorry topped the Gators’ Ross Greenstein 6-3, 4- 6, 6-2.
Florida returns to action next Sunday when the Gators travel to Houston to face the No. 43 Rice Owls at noon ET on Feb. 24.
NCAA Men's Tennis
Texas A&M 4, Florida 3
SINGLES
No. 1 (#36) Ryan Newport, A&M def. Hamid Mirzadeh, UF 6-4, 6-4
No. 2 (#47) Eleazar Magallan, UF def. (#63) Lester Cook, A&M 2- 6, 6-0, 6-3
No. 3 Olivier Levant, UF def. Keith From, A&M 6-4, 6- 3
No. 4 Ante Matijevic, A&M def. Troy Hahn, UF 7-5, 6- 1
No. 5 Matt Behrmann, UF def. (#80) Jarin Skube, A&M 6-3, 6- 3
No. 6 Khaled El Dorry, A&M def. Ross Greenstein, UF 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
DOUBLES
No. 1 Cook/Newport, A&M def. (#26) Chris McDonald/Mirzadeh 8-0
No. 2 Derrick Bauer/Skube, A&M def. (#18) Magallan/Levant 8- 3
No. 3 From/Matijevic, A&M def. Behrmann/Hahn, UF 9- 8 (2)
