Friday, March 30
Winston-Salem, NC
3 PM
Florida Gators
at
Wake Forest
The nations No.1 doubles team of Alfredo Perez and Johannes Ingildsen
No. 10 Florida and No. 1 Wake Forest will meet in top 10 matchup Friday
Thursday, March 29, 2018 | Men's Tennis
Match 19
No. 10 Florida at No. 1 Wake Forest
Friday, March 30 | 3 p.m.
Winston-Salem, N.C. | Wake Forest Tennis Complex
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida men's tennis team will exit SEC play on Friday for a showdown of top 10 teams when they take on the No. 1 ranked Demon Deacons of Wake Forest.
This will be the Gators final non-conference match of the regular season and give the Gators a look at the host site of the NCAA Tournament. The match between the Gators and Demon Deacons is scheduled to begin a 3 p.m. on Friday. If the match is forced inside due to weather, live scoring and video will still be provided.
Gator Notes
• In the fall season, Wake Forest had the No. 1 doubles team in the country, Petros Chrysochos and Skander Mansouri, but the doubles pair of Duarte Vale and McClain Kessler pulled one the biggest upsets of the season with a first-round victory over the favorites at the ITA All-American Championships 6-7(6), 6-3, 11-9
• Florida enters Friday with an overall record of 12-6 and a 7-1 record in the SEC
• The Gators currently sit in third in the SEC standings, a match behind undefeated Mississippi State and Texas A&M. Those two teams won't meet until the final week of the season, in College Station, Texas
• Florida is ranked 10th in the ITA Rankings
• When the Gators play on the road this season they are 3-2
• Against teams ranked in the ITA top 25, they are 6-4 this season. Florida has played one top-five team this season, a loss at No. 2 Ohio State
• Freshman Oliver Crawford has won 10 consecutive singles matches and is undefeated in SEC singles (8-0) and doubles (6-0)
• Perez-Blanco has 88 career singles win and is six away from ninth on the all-time list. He also has 174 career wins in both singles and doubles. He is two wins away from tying for the eighth spot in program history
• Florida is 11-1 when winning the doubles point
• When they Gators win on court one they are 8-0 this season
• Perez-Blanco has won six consecutive singles matches and eight of his last nine
Florida in the Rankings
Team Ranking – 10th
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 March 20
Doubles and singles rankings are released bi-weekly
History vs Wake Forest
• Florida leads the all-time series against Wake Forest 13-5
• The first matchup in the series came back in 1972, a 5-4 loss for Florida
• The two teams played every year but two from 1972 through 1984, then didn't meet again until 1999
• The last meeting between the two schools came in 2012, a 6-1 Florida win in Gainesville
• In the last three meetings, Florida is 2-1
Scouting Wake Forest
• Wake Forest enters the match as the No. 1 ranked team in the country. They have held that ranking for the entire season
• The Demon Deacons suffered their first loss of the season last Sunday at Florida State 4-3
• After dominating opponents for the majority of the season, their last three matches have all ended in 4-3 decisions. They only had two matches in their previous 13 end in a 4-3 score
• Wake Forest played North Carolina on Wednesday, winning 4-3
• Wake is 7-0 when playing at home this season and 8-1 against nationally ranked opponents
• In singles and doubles rankings as of March 20, Wake Forest has five ranked singles athletes: (7) Petros Chrysochos, (29) Borna Gojo, (30) Skander Mansouri, (95) Yuval Solomon and (108) Christian Seraphim. In doubles, they have three ranked pairs: (2) Chrysochos/Mansouri, (27) Julian Zlobinsky/Seraphim, and (44) Gojo/Mansouri
• Wake's No. 7 ranked Chrysochos plays at No. 2 singles while their No. 29 ranked Gojo plays at No. 1. Chrysochos is 11-1 this season at the No. 2 spot and 2-0 at the No. 1 spot while Gojo is 6-2 at the No. 1 spot
• Their No. 2 ranked doubles pair has only competed together twice this season and are 2-0
• The Demon Deacons have a combined singles record against nationally ranked opponents of 38-16
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No. 10 Florida at No. 1 Wake Forest
Friday, March 30 | 3 p.m.
Winston-Salem, N.C. | Wake Forest Tennis Complex
Watch Live / Live Stats | Twitter | Match Notes
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida men's tennis team will exit SEC play on Friday for a showdown of top 10 teams when they take on the No. 1 ranked Demon Deacons of Wake Forest.
This will be the Gators final non-conference match of the regular season and give the Gators a look at the host site of the NCAA Tournament. The match between the Gators and Demon Deacons is scheduled to begin a 3 p.m. on Friday. If the match is forced inside due to weather, live scoring and video will still be provided.
Gator Notes
• In the fall season, Wake Forest had the No. 1 doubles team in the country, Petros Chrysochos and Skander Mansouri, but the doubles pair of Duarte Vale and McClain Kessler pulled one the biggest upsets of the season with a first-round victory over the favorites at the ITA All-American Championships 6-7(6), 6-3, 11-9
• Florida enters Friday with an overall record of 12-6 and a 7-1 record in the SEC
• The Gators currently sit in third in the SEC standings, a match behind undefeated Mississippi State and Texas A&M. Those two teams won't meet until the final week of the season, in College Station, Texas
• Florida is ranked 10th in the ITA Rankings
• When the Gators play on the road this season they are 3-2
• Against teams ranked in the ITA top 25, they are 6-4 this season. Florida has played one top-five team this season, a loss at No. 2 Ohio State
• Freshman Oliver Crawford has won 10 consecutive singles matches and is undefeated in SEC singles (8-0) and doubles (6-0)
• Perez-Blanco has 88 career singles win and is six away from ninth on the all-time list. He also has 174 career wins in both singles and doubles. He is two wins away from tying for the eighth spot in program history
• Florida is 11-1 when winning the doubles point
• When they Gators win on court one they are 8-0 this season
• Perez-Blanco has won six consecutive singles matches and eight of his last nine
Florida in the Rankings
Team Ranking – 10th
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 March 20
Doubles and singles rankings are released bi-weekly
History vs Wake Forest
• Florida leads the all-time series against Wake Forest 13-5
• The first matchup in the series came back in 1972, a 5-4 loss for Florida
• The two teams played every year but two from 1972 through 1984, then didn't meet again until 1999
• The last meeting between the two schools came in 2012, a 6-1 Florida win in Gainesville
• In the last three meetings, Florida is 2-1
Scouting Wake Forest
• Wake Forest enters the match as the No. 1 ranked team in the country. They have held that ranking for the entire season
• The Demon Deacons suffered their first loss of the season last Sunday at Florida State 4-3
• After dominating opponents for the majority of the season, their last three matches have all ended in 4-3 decisions. They only had two matches in their previous 13 end in a 4-3 score
• Wake Forest played North Carolina on Wednesday, winning 4-3
• Wake is 7-0 when playing at home this season and 8-1 against nationally ranked opponents
• In singles and doubles rankings as of March 20, Wake Forest has five ranked singles athletes: (7) Petros Chrysochos, (29) Borna Gojo, (30) Skander Mansouri, (95) Yuval Solomon and (108) Christian Seraphim. In doubles, they have three ranked pairs: (2) Chrysochos/Mansouri, (27) Julian Zlobinsky/Seraphim, and (44) Gojo/Mansouri
• Wake's No. 7 ranked Chrysochos plays at No. 2 singles while their No. 29 ranked Gojo plays at No. 1. Chrysochos is 11-1 this season at the No. 2 spot and 2-0 at the No. 1 spot while Gojo is 6-2 at the No. 1 spot
• Their No. 2 ranked doubles pair has only competed together twice this season and are 2-0
• The Demon Deacons have a combined singles record against nationally ranked opponents of 38-16
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