Florida Gators
Rice
Men's Tennis Beats Rice, 5-2
Sunday, February 24, 2002 | Men's Tennis
Unlike in Friday’s narrow loss at No. 14 Texas A&M, Florida captured the doubles point to open today’s match. A win at the No. 1 position by Chris McDonald and Hamid Mirzadeh, along with a 9-7 victory at No. 3 by Matt Behrmann and Troy Hahn gave the Gators the advantage heading into the singles competition.
In singles, a pair of Gators won in straight sets to put the team up. Eleazar Magallan was a 6-3, 6-4 winner for UF at No. 2 while Hahn captured a victory at No. 4, 6-3, 6-3. Mirzadeh topped Rice’s William Barker at No. 1 singles, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 while Olivier Levant added a win at No. 3 by a 3- 6, 6-3, 6-4 final tally. The two Owl wins came by narrow and identical 1- 6, 7-6, 7-6 scores at No. 5 and No. 6.
Florida returns to action on Friday when the Gators open SEC play by hosting No. 6 Ole Miss at 4:00 pm.
NCAA Men's Tennis
Florida 5, Rice 2
Doubles
1) #26 Chris McDonald/Hamid Mirzadeh (UF) def. Matthias Mathaes/Prakash Venkataraman (RICE), 8-6
2) William Barker/Fabien Giraud (RICE) def. #18 Olivier Levant/Eleazar Magallan (UF), 8-5
3) Troy Hahn/Matt Behrmann (UF) def. Richard Barker/Vuk Rajevac (RICE), 9-7
Singles 1) #102 Hamid Mirzadeh (UF) def. William Barker (RICE), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
2) #47 Eleazar Magallan (UF) def. Matthias Mathaes (RICE), 6-3, 6-4
3) Olivier Levant (UF) def. Prakash Venkataraman (RICE), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
4) Troy Hahn (UF) def. Vuk Rajevac (RICE), 6-3, 6-3
5) Fabien Giraud (RICE) def. Matt Behrmann (UF), 1-6, 7-6, 7-6
6) Cody Jackson (RICE) def. Ross Greenstein (UF), 1-6, 7-6, 7-6
