No. 9 Florida men’s tennis will host Arkansas on Sunday

Sunday, March 25

Gainesville, FL

1 PM

Florida Gators

Arkansas

Johannes Ingildsen

No. 9 Florida men’s tennis will host Arkansas on Sunday

Saturday, March 24, 2018 | Men's Tennis

By: Kelly Shipp

Match 18
No. 9 Florida vs No. 38 Arkansas
Sunday, March 24 | 1 p.m.
Gainesville, Fla. | Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The ninth-ranked Florida men's tennis team will welcome the University of Arkansas Razorbacks to Gainesville on Sunday. The two will square off for an SEC match at 1 p.m at the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex.

Gator Notes
• Florida enters Sunday with an overall record of 11-6 and a 6-1 record in the SEC
• The Gators currently sit in third in the SEC standings, a match behind undefeated Mississippi State and Texas A&M
• Florida is ranked ninth in the ITA Rankings. It's their third time being ranked ninth this season
• When the Gators play at home they are 7-1 this season
• Freshman Oliver Crawford has won nine consecutive matches and is undefeated in SEC singles and doubles
• Perez-Blanco has 87 career singles win and is seven away from ninth on the all-time list. With both, his doubles and singles win on Friday he moved up to ninth on the all-time list for career combined wins with 172. He is now four wins away from the eighth spot in program history
• Florida is 10-1 when winning the doubles point
• When they Gators win on court one they are 8-0 this season
• Ingildsen and Perez are on a seven-match win streak in doubles. They a 7-1 this season
• Perez-Blanco won his fifth consecutive match in singles

Florida in the Rankings
Team Ranking – 9th
Singles
No. 8 - Alfredo Perez [7]
No. 11 - Johannes Ingildsen [6]
No. 51 – Oliver Crawford [93]
No. 87 - Duarte Vale [68]
Doubles
No. 1 - Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen [1]
No. 8 – Chase Perez-Blanco and Oliver Crawford [10]
No. 32 – Duarte Vale and McClain Kessler [12]
No. 39 – Andy Andrade and Perez-Blanco [33]
No. 67 – Alfredo Perez and Oliver Crawford [NR]
Numbers in the [ ] represent their previous ranking from Feb. 27
Doubles and singles rankings are released bi-weekly

SEC Player of the Week
For the third consecutive week freshman Oliver Crawford has earned Southeastern Conference weekly award recognition. After earning back-to-back SEC Freshman of the Week honors, Crawford elevated his game this past weekend to earn SEC Player of the Week honors.

During last week's three matches, two in the conference and one out of conference, Crawford kept his perfect SEC match record alive with two singles win and a doubles win. Overall last weekend he was 3-0 in singles.

History vs Arkansas
• Florida leads the all-time series against Arkansas 27-2
• The Gators have won three straight matches against the Razorbacks
• Florida is 9-1 in the last 10 matches against Arkansas
• Under head coach Bryan Shelton UF is 4-1
• Before their last loss to Arkansas in 2014, they last lost to the Razorbacks back in 1992

Scouting Arkansas
• Arkansas enters the match with a 9-10 overall record and an SEC record of 2-5
• Against nationally ranked opponents Arkansas is 1-4
• On the road, they have a record of 2-6
• Jose Salazar has posted their best singles record at 13-5 at the No. 1 spot. He's won four straight matches
• Against ranked opponents, they are 10-18 this season
• They have played with 16 different doubles pairs this season
• Arkansas doesn't have a winning record at any doubles positions this season
• In doubles, they are 0-8 against nationally ranked opponents

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