No. 11 Florida will battle No. 2 Ohio State Sunday

Sunday, February 11

Columbus, OH

Noon

Florida Gators

Ohio State

No. 11 Florida will battle No. 2 Ohio State Sunday

Saturday, February 10, 2018 | Men's Tennis

By: Kelly Shipp

Match 6
No. 11 Florida at No. 2 Ohio State
Sunday, February 11 | Noon
Columbus, Ohio | Varsity Indoor Tennis Center
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Gators road trip against Big Ten teams continues on Sunday. Florida will travel from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Columbus Ohio to take on the Buckeyes of Ohio State Sunday at noon.

Florida is coming off a 4-2 win over No. 13 Michigan on Friday night. The Gators switched up their lineup and it paid dividends, earning the doubles point and taking three of the five singles points that finished.

Gator Notes
• This will be the Gators second consecutive match played indoors. UF is 1-0 when playing inside this season
• With a win on Sunday, Florida will earn their first win over a team ranked in the ITA top 5 since 2015
• McClain Kessler and Duarte Vale played their first match at No. 1 singles against Michigan, earning the win
• When the Gators win the doubles point, they are 4-0 this season
• UF is still perfect at the No. 5 singles position with a 4-0 record. Three of those wins have come from freshman Andy Andrade
• When Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen compete at No. 1 and two singles, they are each 3-0

Florida in the Rankings
Team Ranking – 11th
Singles
Johannes Ingildsen – 7th
Alfredo Perez – 9th
Duarte Vale – 43rd
Doubles
Perez / Ingildsen – 2nd
Vale / McClain Kessler – 5th
Chase Perez-Blanco / Oliver Crawford – 10th
Perez-Blanco / Andy Andrade – 29th

History vs Ohio State
• This will be the 11th all-time meeting between Florida and Ohio State
• Ohio State leads the series 7-3
• First meeting was back in 1955, a match UF won 9-0
• The Gators won the first three matches in the series but have lost the last seven
• Coach Shelton is 0-5 all-time against Ohio State. OSU has been ranked in the top 10 for all five of those matches
• This is the second consecutive meeting that OSU has been ranked No. 2 in the ITA Rankings
• Last season the two teams met in Gainesville, a 4-1 OSU win
• UF won the doubles point last season but lost at No. 1, 2, 4 and 6 singles
• A potential rematch from 2016 could be between Perez and Mikael Torpegaard. Perez fell to Torpegaard 6-4, 6-3. Like last year both individuals are ranked in the top 10 this season. In last year's meeting, Perez was ranked sixth and Torpegaard was ranked No. 1

Scouting Ohio State
• Ohio State stayed undefeated after defeating No. 6 Texas A&M on Friday 4-3
• OSU earned wins at No. 1, 2 and 6 singles as well as No. 1 and 3 doubles
• The Buckeyes have four student-athletes ranked in the ITA Singles rankings: No. 5 Mikael Torpegaard, No. 30 Kyle Seelig, No. 44 JJ Wolf, and No. 56 John McNally. In doubles, they have pairs ranked at No. 25 (Torpegaard/Joyce) and No. 43 (Mendez/Tubert)
• Texas A&M was the first team this year to win a point over OSU
• OSU is 2-0 against ranked teams this season. They also beat No. 16 Texas

Numbers of Note
5 The number of singles and doubles individuals ranked in the ITA Top 10
2,124 The number of miles from Gainesville to Ann Arbor, MI to Columbus, OH back to Gainesville
3 The number of consecutive ranked teams we will have played after this weekend
2-11 The Gators record against teams ranked in the ITA top 5 since 2013

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