No. 9 Florida will look to rebound on Sunday against Auburn

Sunday, March 11

Auburn, AL

2 PM

Florida Gators

Auburn

No. 9 Florida will look to rebound on Sunday against Auburn

Saturday, March 10, 2018 | Men's Tennis

By: Kelly Shipp

Match 13
No. 9 Florida at Auburn
Sunday, March 11 | 2 p.m. (ET)
Auburn, Ala. | Yarbrough Tennis Centre
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida men's tennis team will try and get back into the win column on Sunday when they take on the Auburn Tigers. The match between Florida and Auburn will be played at the Yarbrough Tennis Centre with first serves scheduled for 2 p.m. ET.

Gator Notes
• Florida is 7-5 overall and 2-1 in the SEC with a road record of 1-2
• The Gators enter the match against Auburn on a one-match losing streak after falling to Mississippi State 5-2 on Friday
• Oliver Crawford leads the team in doubles wins with nine. On the year he is 9-3 in doubles
• Alfredo Perez is 2-0 in doubles against opponents who are nationally ranked
• Perez and Chase Perez-Blanco are each two singles wins away from earning their 50th career win in dual matches
• Ingildsen is one singles win away from 25 career dual match wins
• Ingildsen (21) and Andy Andrade (20) lead the team in overall singles wins
• Perez-Blanco moved into a tie for eighth on the all-time doubles wins list with 83. He is tied with Bob Van Overbeek. With the win, he also earns 165 combined career wins and is just five wins away from moving into a tie for 10th on the all-time list
• Perez-Blanco is four singles wins away from moving into the top 10 in career wins with 86. He would tie Michael Alford (2011-14)
• Perez-Blanco has 164 career combined singles and doubles wins and is six combined wins away from moving into a tie for 10th on the all-time list with Nestor Briceno (2005-08)

Florida in the Rankings
Team Ranking – 9th
Singles
No. 6 - Johannes Ingildsen [9]
No. 7 - Alfredo Perez [10]
No. 68 - Duarte Vale [59]
No. 93 – Oliver Crawford [UR]
No. 101 - Andy Andrade [94]
Doubles
No. 1 - Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen [1]
No. 10 – Chase Perez-Blanco and Oliver Crawford [7]
No. 12 – Duarte Vale and McClain Kessler [9]
No. 33 – Andy Andrade and Perez-Blanco [26]
Numbers in the [ ] represent their previous ranking from Feb. 27
Doubles and singles rankings are released bi-weekly

History vs Auburn
• Florida leads the all-time series 39-15
• UF won the last meeting 7-0 in Gainesville on April 16, 2017
• The Gators have won four consecutive meetings against Auburn dating back to the 2014 season
• Florida's last loss to AU was a 4-0 decision on March 24, 2013, at Auburn
• Under Bryan Shelton, the Gators are 4-1 against the Tigers
• In the last 10 meetings, Florida owns am 8-2 record
• UF has not allowed Auburn to score a point in the match since 2015 when they lost 4-1. The last two meetings have been 7-0 victories for Florida

SEC Freshman of the Week
Oliver Crawford was named SEC Freshman of the Week after a solid opening week of conference play. Crawford went 4-0, including clinching the doubles point against No. 17 Georgia and clinching the match against Georgia by defeating No. 28, Jan Zielinski.

Crawford has put together a solid freshman campaign this season. He has compiled a 5-3 record in dual matches including a 4-2 record at No. 4 singles. In doubles, he is 8-3 this season with a 5-1 record at No. 3 doubles and a 3-2 record at the No. 2 position.

Scouting Auburn
• Auburn enters the match with a 9-7 record and a 0-2 record in SEC play
• The Tigers lost to South Carolina 5-2 on Friday
• AU has lost three consecutive matches
• The Tigers have a combined singles record of 42-39 with a combined doubles record of 20-17
• The pair of Diego Chavarria/Carles Sarrio have won eight of their last 10 matches
• AU has not played a team ranked in the top 25 yet this season

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